Patients charting the course citizen engagement and the learning health system summarizes the 2 day workshop convened in april 2010 to identify and reflect upon current strategies and programs advancing public understanding of a transformative patient centered learning health system stakeholders and leaders within the health sector identified patients and providers as the groups who must be . The learning health system series roundtable on value science driven health care patients charting the course citizen engagement and the learning health system workshop summary leighanne olsen robert s saunders and j michael mcginnis editors and rapporteurs institute of medicine of the national academies the national academies press. Patients charting the course citizen engagement and the learning health system workshop summary washington dc the national academies press doi 1017226 12848 x save cancel appendix a workshop agenda patients charting the course citizen engagement and the learning health system a learning health system activity iom roundtable on value science driven health care april 1 2 . As part of its learning health system series of workshops the roundtable on value science driven health care hosted a workshop to assess the prospects for improving health and lowering costs by advancing patient involvement in the elements of a learning health system. Report a learning health system requires that patients help chart the course and operation of the learning process in this context the iom under the auspices of the roundtable on value science driven health care focused the tenth workshop in its learning health system series on public and patient engagement and leadership this volume patients charting the course citizen engagement