Harold D. Miller is the president and chief executive officer of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and the executive director for the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. Mr. Miller has been working at both the regional and national levels on initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare services and to change the fundamental structure of healthcare payment systems in order to support improved value. He also serves as adjunct professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
Mr. Miller organized the NRHI’s national Summits on Healthcare Payment Reform in 2007 and 2008. His report, “Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care: Issues and Options for Policy Reform,” was published by the Commonwealth Fund in September 2007, and his summary of the recommendations of the 2007 summit was published by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation as “Incentives for Excellence: Rebuilding the Healthcare Payment System from the Ground Up.” His summary of the recommendations from the 2008 Payment Reform Summit, “From Volume to Value: Transforming Healthcare Payment and Delivery Systems to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs,” was published by NRHI and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and his overview of healthcare payment systems, “Better Ways to Pay for Health Care: A Primer on Healthcare Payment Reform,” was published in January 2009 as part of the NRHI Payment Reform Series in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Mr. Miller also serves as the Strategic Initiatives Consultant for the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI). His work with PRHI demonstrating the significant financial penalties that hospitals can face if they reduce hospital-acquired infections was featured in Modern Healthcare magazine in December 2007. He designed and is currently leading a multiyear PRHI initiative to reduce preventable hospital admissions and readmissions through improved care for chronic disease patients.
In 2007 and early 2008, Mr. Miller served as the facilitator for the Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force, which prepared the recommendations that led to passage of Minnesota’s path-breaking healthcare reform legislation in May 2008. Mr. Miller has an M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
