From: Architectural frameworks: defining the structures for implementing learning health systems
Decision layer | Consolidated Reference Model | Role in the LHS architectural framework | Relevant LHS dimension |
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Performance | Prescribes priority and strategic goals, and measures to track goal achievement. | Prescribes goals taken from IOM Strategic Map | Goals |
Scientific | N/A | Develops new transferable knowledge | Scientific |
Organizational | Provides taxonomy with hierarchical description of the Federal Government in terms of sectors, business functions, and services. | Provides organizational taxonomy of a health system and its organizational units as well as its external stakeholders | Social |
Data | Provides four domain taxonomies relating to mission, enterprise, guidance, and resource data. | Captures data sources for clinical and point-of-care data, and specifies data standards and lifecycle management procedures | Technical |
Information technology | Categorizes applications and their components at three levels (systems, application components, and interfaces); categorizes information technology infrastructure components (platform, network, facility). | Brings together applications and infrastructure components given their varying importance across LHSs | Technical |
Ethics and security | Defines security controls and measurements related to, e.g., regulatory conditions, risks, and compliance. | Adds ethical dimension related to privacy and security of patient data in line with existing legislative frameworks | Ethical |