A Clinician-led Governance model for real-time Predictive Models for Patient Care

April 25th, 2023

We will share an implemented governance structure and processes for evaluating, approving, and managing predictive models for patient care. Evaluations for bias, predictive value, provider experience, and patient care are included. This clinically led approach promotes transparency around model performance and impact and provides a clear path for researchers and clinicians to propose and implement new models.

Bethene Britt

Dr. Bethene Britt is the Director of Analytics for UW Medicine, reporting to both the School of Medicine BIME Department and UW Medicine IT Services. The Analytics group at UW Medicine is comprised of approximately 50 architects, analysts, developers, and administrators managing a set of business intelligence solutions and warehouses. Since joining UW Medicine in May of 2015, Dr. Britt has led efforts to create a predictive analytics function and governance model for the implementation of real-time clinical predictive models. She has also led efforts to develop a new analytics data platform, implement a new enterprise-wide data governance model, create analytics intake and prioritization processes, deploy a new data access policy and training, prototype new self-service technologies, begin data management work and support Epic business intelligence and cognitive computing implementations. Dr. Britt holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Washington State University, a Certificate in Data Science from UW, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP). She has served on Advisory Councils at UW, and Microsoft, published in various journals/books, and spoken at a variety of conferences and seminars, including recently at Epic UGM. Dr. Britt has been in leadership roles for business and program management, strategic practice/consulting, and data analytics. Most recently, she was the Director of Platform Services at Intellectual Ventures, a private innovation development firm, with responsibility for analytics and business intelligence. In prior roles, she led analytic efforts, created business intelligence and knowledge management practices, standardizing processes, data, taxonomies, and enterprise ontologies. She has built and managed multiple teams of data and business analysts responsible for day-to-day management of enterprise data and tools.

Sean Mooney

Dr. Sean Mooney is the Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) of UW Medicine, the Interim Director of the UW Institute for Medical Data Science, the Director of Informatics for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, an Associate Director of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

As CRIO, he leads the growing Research Information Technology team that contributes to a number of national research networks the National Kidney Precision Medicine Project, the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, the UW Clear Center, and others. Some notable efforts include leading the team that developed the open-source Leaf application for clinical data querying and extraction, managing a REDCap instance with >25k projects and >10k active users, managing the Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW joint Clinical Trials Management System application, and enhancing the UW Medicine EDW with advanced analytics including NLP. Currently, he is focusing on developing an Epic EHR Research team for supporting research in the EHR at UW Medicine and leading the newly founded UW Institute for Medical Data Science. His research interests focus on data science applications in biomedicine, particularly in understanding the underlying molecular causes of inherited genetic diseases and cancer. Over his career, he has been on the faculty at Indiana University, the University of Washingto,n and the Buck Institute and has taught at Stanford University, UCSF, and the University of California Berkeley. He is an expert in a wide range of STEM fields, having been trained in chemistry and computer science, and appointed at different times in his career as a faculty member in many areas including genetics, microbial biology, informatics, and gerontology. A prolific speaker, he has given more than 150 invited seminars throughout the world. Dr. Mooney is a 4th generation Seattleite and in his spare time he is found in the outdoors having climbed Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker and he has bicycled across the United States twice.