June 19, 2008 -- 10:30 to 12:00 ET:    PUBLIC FORUM TO DISCUSS MEP STANDARDS.

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May 22, 2008:  Public Comment Period for MEP Accreditation Standards Announced From May 22 to July 7, 2008.

Title:  Population Health Impact Institute Releases Methods Evaluation Process TM (MEP TM)   Accreditation Standards for Public Comment Period

April 5, 2008:  100+ Attendees at ABQAURP/PHII conference in Chicago, IL.

Title: Enhancing Quality Performance Measurement:  The New Health Care Accountability Paradigm Has Arrived

February 28, 2008: PHII Announces New Board Members

Title:  Population Health Impact Institute Prepares to Launch New Accreditation Program this Spring

October 25, 2007: Accreditation Committee Members Announced.

Title: Work to Begin on QEP Standards

August 24, 2007: Evaluating the Quality of Quality Improvement Claims:  The Population Health Impact Institute - Brian Klepper.

Source: The Health Care Blog

August 24, 2007: Non-profit to put scrutiny on health-savings claims. 

Source:  Cincinnati Business Courier

August 16, 2007: Quality Evaluation Processsm (QEPsm) Accreditation Program Announced.

Title: QEP Accrediation Program

April 15, 2006: "When you need a vendor to evaluate your DM program be sure that ..." (short article by T. Wilson) in: "Take My Word for It"   The Enduring Dispute Over Measuring DM's Economic Value.  Managed Care Magazine. April, 2006, page 27.

Article:  "When you need a vendor to evaluate your DM program be sure that ..." 

November 15, 2005:  DxCG To Serve on Population Health Impact Institute's Grant Advisory Panel

Link: Senior Researcher, Dr. Anju Joglekar, to Participate

October 2005: Health & Productivity Management.  "The Transparency Movement"

Article: Rationale for need for full disclosure of impact methodology, to allow for independent assessment of the quality and strength of the evidence use to support results.

September 30, 2005: Public Announcement of Impact Evaluation Standards Process to Employer Gathering

Link: Open-Source Standards Process Begins

August 26, 2005: PHI Institute Forms Evaluation Standards Committee

Link:  New Committee to Support PHI Institute Grant Funded Projects

June 25, 2005:  Disease Management News:  Experts Call for 'Convergence' of DM Evaluation

Title: Time Has Come for Unified Stance on DM Outcomes.

June 15, 2005:  Employee Benefit News:  Letter Signed by Five Scientists

Article:DM Measurement ROI - A Call for Transparency

June 15, 2005:  Employee Benefit News:  PHI Institute's Five Evaluation Principles 

Article: New Guidelines Published for Measuring ROI

May 26, 2005:  Human Resource Executive Magazine:  Measurement Issues in Population Health

Article: Effective Disease Management Programs

March 29, 2005:  Institute for Health and Productivity Management:  Endorsement of PHI Institute Evaluation Principles

Press Release: PHI Institute's "Five Evaluation Principles" endorsed by IHPM

March 2, 2005:  PHI Institute's "Code of Evaluation Ethics" endorsed by the Institute for Health and Productivity Management.

White Paper/Position Statement: website-IHPM_Position_Statement_on_CBO_report_FINAL

November 1, 2004: PHI Institute Founder Listed as One of the "Top Disease Management Leaders" by Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine

Article: http://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/mhe/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=133744

October 20, 2004: PHI Institute Established.pdf

Projects & Support

November 15, 2006:  Article in November/December 2006 Issue of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (pg 68-69) by officials at ABQAURP and PHI Institute.

Title: Towards a Quality Evaluation Process for Defined Population Health Programs. Wilson TW, Brill JB.

September 15, 2006:  American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicans (ABQAURP) announces collaboration with the Population Health Impact Institute on Programs on Quality Evaluation Processsm (QEPsm).

Title: QEP Certification Program

March 15, 2006:  Presentation/Web-Cast to Six New England Medicaid Plans Sponsored by NESCSO (based upon grant- funded research supported by NESCSO).

Title: Evidence-based Procurement of Population Health Programs (Archived Web Cast)

December 8, 2005: Case Management Society of America Adopts Resolution to Support the Population Health Impact Institute.

Theme: CMSA's Board encourages others in the health care industry "to support the principles and standards-setting process of the PHI Institute."

November 4, 2005: Brandeis Grant Advisory Panel Announced.

Title: Population Health Impact Institute's Grant Advisory Panel

October 21, 2005: NESCSO Grant-Funded Demonstration Project Findings Presented to New England Medicaid Officials.

Presentation: "Establishing an Evidence-based Data-driven Approach for Assessing Medicaid Care Disease Management Programs."

Press Release: Presentation to New England Medicaid Programs Lays Groundwork for Baseline Disease Management Benchmarks

August 23, 2005:  IHPM Expands Award to PHI Institute in Conformity With Brandeis Grant

Title: ROI Evaluation Models in Work-Site Health Programs Subject of Study

July 26, 2005:  Brandeis University's Health Industry Forum: Grant Awarded to PHI Institute

Title: Quality of Methods and Strength of Evidence for Disease Management Evaluation

June 15, 2005: E-CareManagement News:  Endorsement of PHI Institute Principles

Article: Resolving the ROI Debate - A Call for Transparency

April 10, 2005:  Disease Management News:  Employer Group Urges Adoption of PHI Institute's "Five Evaluation Principles" 

Article: Employer Group to Urge Adoption of PHI Institute's Five Evaluation Principles

Presentations

October 5, 2007:  Evaluation Choices for the Collaborative Practices Model:  Process, Outcome, Attribution

Venue:  Collaborative Practices Summit, Mohegan Sun Resort, Uncasville, CT

September 26, 2007:  Keynote Panel Discussion: Epidemic of Health Care Costs:  How do we stop it?  Should we stop it?

Venue: 12th Annual Health Management Congress, Anaheim California.

September 23, 2005: Address to the Employer Track at the 10th Annual Disease Management Congress, Orlando.

Presentation:  Caveat Emptor:  Decision Support Tools for an Emerging "Buyer's Side" Health Care Management

August 2, 2005: Plenary Address to the SRI 3rd Annual Disease Management Conference, Boston

Presentation: DM ROI Methods: The Good, the Bad, and the "Insufficient"

March 9-11, 2005: PHI Institute Founder Addressed the Institute for Health and Productivity Management Meeting, Orlando

Presentation:  A_Population_Health_Management_Approach_for_Employers_050310

Program: http://www.ihpm.org/programs/dm/dm_program_guide.pdf

September 9, 2004: PHI Institute Concept Announcement--Conflict Free Procurement of DM.pdf

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest, with Commentary by PHI Institute Associates

Article:  Berg GD, Wadhwa S, Johnson AE. "A Matched-Cohort Study of Health Services Utilization and Financial Outcomes for a Heart Failure Disease-management Program in Elderly Patients."   J Am Geriatr Soc 52: 2004; 1-7.

Commentary: Wilson TW, Linden A. "Potential Bias in 'Controls' Used in a Heart Failure Disease Management Program." J Am Geriatr Soc 2005; 53(7): 1268-9.

Article: Galbreath AD, Krasuski RA, Smith B, et al. "Long-Term Healthcare and Cost Outcomes of Disease Management in a Large, Randomized, Community-Based Population With Heart Failure." Circulation. 2004; 110(23):3518-26.

Commentary: Linden A, Wilson T.  "Letter." Circulation. 2005; 112: e11.  Galbreath A, Freeman GL, Smith B, Krasuski RA, Stajduhar KC, Kwan MD, Ellis R. "Response." Circulation. 2005; 112: e11. 

Article: Javitt JC, Steinberg G, Locke T, Couch JB, Jacques J, Juster  I, Reisman L. "Using a Claims Data-Based Sentinel System to Improve Compliance with Clinical Guidelines: Results of a Randomized Prospective Study." Am J Manag Care. 2005;11:93-102.

Commentary:  Wilson TW, Linden A. "To the Editors."  Am J Manag Care. 2005;11: 999. Javitt JC. "In Reply." Am J Manag Care. 2005;11: 999.

Article: Tinkelman D, Wilson S. "Asthma Disease Management: Regression to the Mean or Better?" Am J Manag Care. 2004; 10 (12): 948-54.

Commentary: Levin-Scherz, J.  "To the Editor."  Am J Manag Care. 2005; 11 (3): 134,136.  Wilson T, Linden A. "To the Editor." Am J Manag Care. 2005; 11 (3): 136.  Wilson S, Tinkelman D. "The Authors Respond." Am J Manag Care. 2005; 11 (3): 136-37.

Article: Firestone B, Bartlett J, Selby J. "Can Disease Management Reduce Health Care Costs By Improving Quality?" Health Affairs. 2004; 23 (6): 63-75.

Commentary: Crossen FJ, Madvig J. "Does Population Management of Chronic Disease Lower Costs of Care? Despite Lingering Concerns Disease Management Shows Promise in Improving the Care of the Chronically Ill and Helping Control their Costs." Health Affairs. 2004; 23 (6): 76-78. Wilson TW , Linden A. "Disease Management Economic Value: Unproven?" Health Affairs. 2005; 24 (2): 566-67.  Firestone B. "The Authors Respond."  Health Affairs. 2005; 24 (2): 567. 

Article:  DeBusk RF, Miller NH, Parker KM, Bandura A , Kraemer HC, Cher DJ, et al. " Care Management for Low-Risk Patients with Heart Failure: A Randomized, Controlled Trial." Ann Intern Med. 2004; 141 (8): 606-13.

Commentary: Wagner EH.  "Deconstructing Heart Failure Disease Management."  Ann Intern Med. 2005; 141 (8): 644-46; Linden A, Wilson TW. "Care Management for Heart Failure."  Ann Intern Med. 2005; 142 (5): 286; Debusk RF, Cher DJ, Kraemer HC . "Reply: Care Management for Heart Failure." Ann Intern Med. 2005; 142 (5):386.

Article: Villagra VG , Ahmed T. " Effectiveness of a Disease Management Program for Patients with Diabetes." Health Affairs. 2004; 23 (4): 255-266.

Commentary: Wilson TW , Linden A. " Measuring Diabetes Management. " Health Affairs. 2004; 23 (6): 277-8; Selby JV, Narayan KMV. " Lowering Diabetes Cost." Health Affairs. 2004;23 (6): 278; Villagra V , Ahmed T. " Diabetes Management: The Authors Respond." Health Affairs. 2004; 23 (6): 278-9.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

Article: Martin DC, Berger ML, Anstatt DT, et al. "Population-based Disease and Case Management in a Medicare Plus Choice Health Maintenance." Preventing Chronic Disease. 2004; 1 (4): 1-11.

Article: Rost K, Pyne JM , Dickinson LM, et al. "Cost-Effectiveness of Enhancing Primary Care Depression Management on an Ongoing Basis." Ann Fam Med. 2005; 3:7-14.

Article: Goetzel RZ, Ozminkowski RJ, Villagra VG. Duffy J.  "Return on Investment in Disease Management:  A Review."  Health Care Financing Review. 2005; 26:1-19.

Article: Sullivan S, Meyer LC.  "Determining the Economic Value of Disease Management Programs for Employers."  Managed Care Interface. 2005; 18 (10): 26-8.