Kevin Little, PhD, is a statistician who applies information design and analysis methods to solve practical problems.   He has applied his analytic skills and experience to promote sustainable buildings and communities and has worked to improve performance in health care applications. His company, Informing Ecological Design, tackles projects that help the present industrial economy evolve to an economy that integrates with the rest of Nature’s systems. Kevin is also a Partner in Rapid Improvement Associates, which specializes in use of collaborative learning methods to solve environmental problems.  Kevin serves as an Improvement Advisor with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In that capacity he has supported several hundred community health centers that participated in chronic care collaboratives sponsored by Health Resources Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to develop performance measures, analyze progress using performance data and coach improvement projects by health center staff.  Current IHI projects include promotion of patient-centered care and advising the Joint Replacement Learning Community collaborative, which is focused on increasing the value in total joint replacement surgeries and tracking and analyzing patient-reported outcomes. In late 2011 and early 2012, Kevin led the project to develop the set of measures now used in a national multi-year campaign, the Healthier Hospitals Initiative and continues to serve HHI as the lead measures analyst.