Launched in fall 2025 by the Unité de soutien au système de santé apprenant (SSA) Québec, the LHS Incubator offers intensive support to project teams within the health and social services network. It aims to help them integrate learning health system concepts into their projects.
The LHS Incubator is a collaborative, partnership-based initiative. It mobilizes knowledge and guides teams in integrating impact measurement.
A learning organization is one that brings together scattered knowledge and transforms it into innovative strategy!
Why?
Participating in the LHS incubator means…
- Increase the impact and visibility of your project
- Get access to our experts and tools
- Build profitable partnerships
- Benefit from the principles of the learning health system (LHS)
- Test your project in a real-world setting with the support of a supportive community
Impact of the initiative
- Establish lasting partnerships and join collective forces
- Contribute to the implementation of Quebec’s LHS
- Structure, clarify, and test your project
- Measure the impact of projects to promote scaling up
For whom?
The network’s project teams
- Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux (CIUSSS) (Integrated University Health and Social Services Center)
- Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux (CISSS) (Integrated Health and Social Services Center)
- Family Medecine Groups
- Other members of the health and social services network
Eligibility criteria
- A project that is:
- Implemented or in the process of being implemented
- Carried out in partnership (patient, clinician, non-profit organizations, municipalities, population, etc.)
- Minimum 3 people
How?
Intensive support in three ways
1) Cross-team co-development
2) Workshops on key LHS concepts
12 collaborative thematic workshops:
- Project identity
- Partnership
- Data
- Change management
- Governance and project leadership
- Continuous improvement and evaluation
- Health economics and efficiency
- Future outlook for the project
- Equity, diversity, inclusion and indigenous health
- Intrapreneurship
- Strategic communications and political skills
- Project review and closing day
3) Personalized support
6 intensive months:
- Meet with our scientific experts and patient partners
- Use tools and training tailored to your project
2025 Cohort
Program for implementing a single-session intervention process (ISU) | CISSS Montérégie Centre
Improve the implementation process of the ISU training model—a one-time intervention for citizens experiencing a difficult but brief contextualized situation.
Improving the trajectory of child monitoring | Le Petit Repère, Rimouski
Improve the life trajectory of children monitored by the organization in a social pediatrics context.
Improvement of an operational excellence management program | CISSS Lanaudière
Improve the training path for executives with the goal of achieving operational excellence in management.
The first cohort of the LHS Incubator has wrapped up!
Let’s celebrate the success of the first three project teams from Quebec’s health and social services network to have completed the LHS Incubator program! On to the 2026 cohort!
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LHS leaders help the health and social services workers to innovate and improve by leveraging the strengths of the learning health system (LHS) methodology.