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Summary: When people hear about cutting costs in health care, the assumption is often that quality of care also suffers. Proponents of a learning health system say that it will actually increase the quality of care while decreasing costs. We asked Charles Friedman what a learning health system is, how it would improve heath care and obstacles that need to be overcome to implement it.