Peer Learning Collaboratives
Member Benefit
ACH Learning Collaboratives
ACH’s Learning Collaboratives (LC) are an educational approach using fresh ideas, inventive thinking, and actions to enhance learning by working together with other health center leaders and experts in the field. Through these collaboratives, ACH unites various disciplines to address the pressing issues facing health centers today, and as community health challenges shift and develop, so do the topics. LCs are an opportunity for ACH’s health center leaders to directly tackle health care challenges and equip themselves with tangible knowledge to enact real change.
What to Expect
Practice-Based Learning & Action
While webinars are educational presentations where attendees typically submit questions or comments after the presentation, participants in a LC engage as a group to discuss the concepts presented and engage in peer-to-peer learning by sharing ideas, asking questions, debating, and listening to other perspectives. Participants may also develop or pilot tools and resources that are shared in a learning session to help reach their goals.
Upcoming Emerging Technology Learning Collaborative
ACH’s Emerging Technology Learning Collaborative, sponsored by eClinicalWorks, will enable health center leaders to leverage existing and emerging technologies and solutions to address key areas in enhancing and delivering health care. Participants, alongside experts in the field, will share the latest information on and best practices for emerging technologies, their impact on the health center landscape, and strategies for implementation. Participants will identify opportunities for optimizing patient care, reducing healthcare gaps and enhancing the sustainability of healthcare systems.
Applications open in June 2025; participants will be notified of their selection status in July.
Format & Program
- Face-to-Face Workshops: The LCs will meet in person twice in October 2025 and March 2026. The LC will launch with a half day in-person event at ACH’s Best Practices showcase in Denver in October 2025; the final session will take place in Washington, DC during ACH’s 2026 Annual Member Meeting. Faculty will include ACH and leaders from eClinicalWorks, subject matter experts, and other leaders in the digital transformation space.
- Virtual Sessions: Between the two in-person sessions, LC members will meet monthly online, with asynchronous materials and engaging synchronous discussions and presentations. Each of the three virtual workshops will last one hour in length and provide a deep-dive presentation on a topic specifically relevant to the peer group’s interest.
Learning Collaborative Participants Will:
- Explore the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence and its use – the benefits and challenges – within community health centers and primary care. For example, participants will explore ambient listening technologies and considerations with regards to efficiency, patient outcomes, as well as privacy.
- Identify and discuss opportunities for technology usage with aspects of population health, including serving specialized populations, as well as effectively capturing and harnessing data.
- Share and implement best practices regarding emerging technologies, including strategies for adoption and integration within health center infrastructure.
- Explore cybersecurity and the increasing need for health centers to plan their cybersecurity infrastructure and data management structures to adapt to ever-evolving landscapes.
- Explore the ways in which technology can support and enhance value-based care arrangements, sharing best practices and innovations to achieve maximum impact and success.
- Track and analyze shifts in federal policy to help inform further technology use and data capture. For example, recent shifts from UDS+ and what opportunities still exist to collect and upgrade data capture with or without UDS+.
- Build a network of peers and stakeholders within the health center community to foster collaboration, share program implementation challenges and solutions.
Participant Commitment & Expectations
Participants are expected to attend and actively engage in all virtual and in-person sessions, and submit reporting requirements as needed. They must:
- Attend and commit to all learning sessions;
- Participate in individualized study (individual and small group exercises); and
- respond to workshop and LC evaluations.
Note: Participants are required to pay for their own travel, including but not limited to, airfare, hotel, and meals during the in-person sessions in Denver, CO, and Washington, DC.
