Center for Performance Meaurement

Overview

The Center for Performance Measurement (CPM) is dedicated to fostering continuous improvements for optimal patient outcomes and supporting faculty at our institution and partner institutions in utilizing Big Data to enhance healthcare delivery.

Positioned at the intersection of clinical research, quality and safety, clinical care, and health policy and reform, the CPM focuses on utilizing performance measurement, data science, and spatial informatics to drive the house of medicine’s goal of achieving healthy sustainable communities. The primary areas of concentration include developing and implementing performance measures to guide care processes and align with healthcare reform initiatives, creating and implementing large databases for robust risk analysis, and educating the next generation of physician leaders in measurement science. Additionally, collaboration is a key aspect of the CPM’s strategy, and we plan on partnering/supporting data-driven initiatives at Brown University and the Lifespan Health System, particularly the Brown Data Science Institute

Scope

The primary areas in which this center will focus are as follows:

Performance Measurement:

  • Performance measure sets through establishing care pathways and episodes of care by diagraming the care pathway then setting the boundaries to establish the episode of care
  • Core outcome research and quality sets to align research and performance measurement
  • Cost measures for healthcare reform
  • Patient reported outcomes to ensure we are meeting the needs of our patients 

 

Big Data:

  • Data registries for risk analysis and population management, with streamlined clinical, research, quality, and education functionality
  • Data dictionaries to enable multidisciplinary and multi-institution data collaboration & measurement initiatives
  • Development and measurement of outreach clinical care innovation/collaboration initiatives anchored on data collaboration

 

Education:

  • Research gap year for medical students – Performance Measurement Fellows Program
  • Develop a Measurement Science & Health Policy Leadership Fellowship – virtual 1-year mentored fellowship for early career physician future measurement science leaders
  • Mentoring for Brown Dermatology’s Health Policy & Quality Residency Track and similar initiatives in other clinical departments

 

Department Support:

  • Performance Measure development
  • Quality and Safety Programs
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (M&M)
  • Residency education on quality and safety
  • Resident quality and safety projects
  • Lecture series on Leadership, Quality, and Health Policy
  • Database development

Leadership

Directors

Director - Oliver Wisco, DO

Director of the Brown Dermatology Cutaneous Oncology Program Chair of Brown Dermatology Quality and Safety Committee

In addition to being a board-certified dermatologist with fellowship training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Melanoma Research, Dr. Wisco has been heavily involved in healthcare improvement initiatives through the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) and the American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS). In 2012, he led the development of the AAD’s national performance measurement system for all of dermatology with the initial focus being on skin cancer care. 10 years later, he led a team for the AAD to create a two-part continuing medical education article series on developing performance measures in dermatology. For the ACMS, he was the thought leader for the first virtual unified Mohs Surgery data registry which enables quality reporting and a data repository for research. Lastly, much of his research has been on how to improve healthcare delivery through the creation of population risk indices, the development of streamlined comprehensive data registries, and the development and implementation of performance metrics. From the leadership perspective, Dr. Wisco retired after 27 years of military service in the United States Air Force after attaining the rank of Colonel. He brings a unique clinical background and healthcare reform & informatics expertise, along with a proven leadership record to the position of the Director of the Center for Performance Measurement. 

Co-Director - Guixing Wei, PhD

Senior Research Scientist at Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) Campus Advisory Board Member at Data Science Institute (DSI)

Dr Wei’s research interests are big geo-data analytics, human mobility analysis, health geography and spatial epidemiology. His current research projects include the NSF-funded MAPPS project investigating how to use human mobility and mixing data for pandemic prediction, the collaborative project with RI Department of Health on examining the geospatial risks of emergency medical service (EMS) calls, and the project developing advanced Bayesian spatial models for Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data.

Current Core Leadership

Chris DiMarco, MD

Program Director, Dermatopathology Fellowship, Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Medical Informatics Liaison, Lifespan Hospitals

Quality Improvement Director, Brown Dermatology, Inc.

Assistant Professor, Clinician Educator & Technology Director

Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

 

John Kawaoka, MD

Associate Professor of Dermatology, Clinician Educator

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Program Director, Dermatology Residency Training Program

 

Janet Sullivan, MD

Retired Dermatologist and Former Chief Medical Officer of Hudson Health Plan

Founding Member of the National Quality Forum