Visualizing the Maternal Health Journey for Learning Health Systems: Mixed Methods Combined Experience Approach

The VCE diagram bridges micro-level patient experiences with macro-level population data, holding promise to enhance service evaluation, delivery, and design, and improve health care outcomes. The VCE diagram provides a replicable framework for data visualization that highlights systemic disparities often hidden in aggregate data. Moreover, the availability of structured human experience and service outcome data can provide robust context-specific and situational data to foster a culture of organizational learning and continuous improvement via an LHS. The LHS's knowledge translation loops provide a conduit to improve patient experiences and reduce morbidity and mortality across populations and health systems. Future work will include usability testing across diverse audiences to assess interpretability and refine applications in LHSs.