Center for Global Health Faculty

Professor

Professor of Health Policy & Management and Health Informatics; Director Center for Population Health Information Technology, Director PhD Program in Health Services Research & Policy, Director Public Health Informatics Certificate Program Program

Academic Degrees

• DrPH

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  Health Policy and Management

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

jweiner+jhsph.edu

Phone:

Direct - 410.955.5661

Fax:

410.955.0470

Link:

SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

General interests lie within the fields of health care policy and health services research and evaluation and in health care /population health informatics.

More information on the Center for Population Health Information Techology (CPHIT -- pronounced "See-Fit") at: www.jhsph.edu/cphit

Specific areas of interest include: health IT / informatics as applied to population health & quality of care; primary/ambulatory care; quality of care; managed care & health insurance; health workforce planning; case-mix and risk-adjustment; and international comparisons of primary care organization & finance.

Dr. Weiner is the co-developer and Team executive director of the widely used Johns Hopkins ACG Case-Mix / Predictive Modeling System.

See ACG web site at www.acg.jhsph.edu for further information about the ACG software.

ACGs are the most successful technology transfer / IP project in the history of the Johns Hopkins University and are used in over 16 nations. (See more information on project page URL at thebottom of this page).

See JHSPH "open course ware" site for free access to Dr. Weiner's "Managed Care and Health Insurance" course material: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/managedcare/

His health services research and evaluation course material: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/HSRE/

An interview with Dr. Weiner was featured in the June 2007 edition of Managed Care magazine. See: http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0706/0706.qna_weiner.html

See piece on ACGs, EHR and health reform at: http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2010/spring/features/the_future_of_public_health_20_great_challenges/cutting_the_costs_of_care/

More information on the public health informatics certificate program at:http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/hpm/certificates/informatics/

Keywords

Health services research & evaluation, health policy, primary/ambulatory care, health informatics and population health, quality of care, managed care & health insurance, workforce planning, case-mix/risk adjustment, cross-national comparisons.

Honors and Awards

Past President of the Bloomberg School's Faculty Senate (2003-2004)

Fellow, Academy for Health Services Research and Policy (now known as AcademyHealth)

American Public Health Association (Medical Care Section)

American Medical Informatics Association

Atlantic Fellow In Public Policy. Awarded by the British Government (1999)

Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, 2004-2009

Member, National Blue Cross/Shield Research Advisory Committee, 2003-2006

Member Several Quality and Health IT related expert panels at the NQF, NCQA and CMS

Frequent guest and commentator on national and local NPR radio shows and local PBS Television

Selected Publications

Selected Monographs:

Weiner J, Lewis R, Gillam S. US Managed Care and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs): Lessons To A Small Island From a Lost Continent. The King’s Fund, London, 2001. (Available at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pdf/USManagedCarePCTs.pdf)

Stoline A and Weiner J. The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care System in the 1990s. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, 1993. (With a foreword by Arnold Relman)

Weiner J, with Ferriss D. GP Budget Holding in the UK: Lessons from America. The King's Fund, London, 1990.

Selected Articles / Chapters:

Chan KS, Fowles JB, Weiner JP.  Electronic health records and the reliability and validity of quality measures:  a review of the literature.  In Press Medical Care Research and Review.

Jensen R, Chan, K, Weiner JP, Fowles J,  Neale, S.  Implementing Electronic Health Record-Based Quality Measures for Developmental Screening.  Pediatrics, 2009 Oct; 124 (4) e648-54

Starfield B, Chang HY, Lemke KW, Weiner JP.Ambulatory specialist use by nonhospitalized patients in us health plans: correlates and consequences. J Ambul Care Manag. 2009 Jul-Sep;32(3):216-25.

Forrest C, Lemke K, Bodycombe D, Weiner JP.  Medication, Diagnostic, and Cost Information as Predictors of High Risk Patients in Need of Care Management. American J of Managed Care, 2009 Jan 15;(1) 41-48

Weiner JP, Famadas JC, Waters HR, Gikic D., Managed care and private health insurance in a global context. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2008 Dec;33(6):1107-31

Weiner, J, Kfuri, T, Chan, K, Fowles, J. “e-Iatrogenesis:” The most critical unintended consequence of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and other health information technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Assoc , 2007:14:387-388

Weiner, J. Expanding the US medical workforce: global perspectives and parallels. British Medical Journal, 4 August 2007.

Weiner, J, A Comparison of Prepaid Group Practice Staffing With US Physician Supply: Implications For Medical Workforce Policy. Health Affairs, Web Exclusive. February 4, 2004 (Featured with 6 editorials) (Available at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.43)

Braun B, Fowles J, Forrest C, Kind E, Foldes S, Weiner J. Which Enrollees Bypass Their Gatekeepers in a Point-of-Service Plan? Medical Care, 2003; 41:836-841.

Starfield B, Lemke K, Bernhardt T, Foldes S, Forrest C, Weiner J. Co-Morbidity: Implications for the Importance of Primary Care in “Case” Management. Annals of Family Medicine, May/June 2003; 1 (1).

Forrest C, Majeeed A, Weiner J, Carroll K, Bindman A. Referral of Children to Specialists in the United States and United Kingdom. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2003; 157-279-285.

Forrest C, Majeed A, Weiner J, Carroll K, Bindman A. Comparison of Specialty Referral Rates in the United Kingdom and the United States: retrospective cohort analysis. British Medical Journal, August 2002, Volume 325: 370-371.

Solberg L, Lyles A., Shore A, Lemke K, Weiner J. Is Quality Free? The Relationship Between Cost and Quality Across Eighteen Provider Groups. American Journal of Managed Care, May 2002, Volume 8(5): 413-422.

Burton L, Weiner J, Stevens G, Kasper J. Health Outcomes and Medicaid Costs for Frail Older Individuals: A Case Study of MCO vs. Fee-for-Service Care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, February 2002, Volume 50(2) 382.

Weiner J. A Shortage of Physicians or a Surplus of Assumptions? Health Affairs. January/February 2002, Volume 21(1): 160-162.

Lyles A, Weiner J, Shore A, Christianson J, Solberg L, Drury P. Cost and Quality Trends in an Employer-to-Provider Direct Contracting Arrangement. Health Affairs, January/February 2002.

Weiner J, Gillam S, Lewis R. The Organisation and Financing of British Primary Care Groups & Trusts: Observations Through the Prism of US Managed Care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 7(1) January 2002.

Majeed A, Bindman A, Weiner J. Use of Risk Adjustment in Budget Setting and Performance Measurement in Primary Care: Lessons from the USA (Two Part Article), British Medical Journal. 2001, 323: 604 – 610.

Bindman A, Weiner J, Majeed A. Primary Care Groups in The United Kingdom: Quality and Accountability. Health Affairs, 2001; 20(3) 132-145.

Forrest C, Weiner J, Fowles J, Vogeli C, Frick K, Lemke K, Starfield B. Self-referral in Point-of-Service Health Plans. JAMA, 2001; 285: 2223-2231.

Weiner J. Tucker A. Collins M. Fakhraei H. R. Lieberman, C. Abrams, G. Trapnell, J Folkemer. The Development of a Risk-Adjusted Capitation Payment System for Medicaid MCOs: the Maryland Model. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 1998: 21(4) 29-52

Cleves M. Weiner J. Cohen W. Et al. Assessing HCFA's Health Care Quality Improvement Program, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, October 1997;23:550-560.

Fowles J, Weiner JP, Knutson D, Fowler E, Tucker AM and Ireland M. Taking Health Status Into Account When Setting Capitation Rates: a Comparison of Risk Adjustment Methods. JAMA 1996:276:1316-1321 (Finalist, Article of the Year, National Institute for Health Care Management.)

Weiner, J., Dobson, A., Maxwell, S., Coleman, K., Starfield B., Anderson., A., Setting Risk-Adjusted Capitation Rates for Medicare Using Ambulatory and Inpatient Claims Diagnoses, Health Care Financing Review, 1996 Spring #3, pp. 77-99

Weiner J, Starfield B, Stuart M, Powe N and Steinwachs D. Ambulatory Care Practice Variation Within a Medicaid Program. Health Services Research, 1996; 30:751-770.

Weiner J, Parente S, Garnick D, Fowles J and Lawther A. Variations in Office Based Quality: Claims-Based Profile of Care Provided to Medicare Patients With Diabetes. JAMA, 1995; 273(19):1503-1508. (Editorially Featured)

Starfield B, Powe N, Weiner J, Stuart M, Steinwachs D, Scholle S and Gerstenberger A. Costs Versus Quality in Different Types of Primary Care Settings. JAMA, 1994; 272:1903-1908. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J. The Effects of Health Reform on US Physician Requirements: Evidence From HMO Staffing Patterns. JAMA, 1994; 272:222-230. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J, Starfield B, Steinwachs D, and Mumford L. Development and Application of a Population Oriented Measure of Ambulatory Care Case-Mix. Med Care 1991;29:452-472.

Weiner J, Lyles CA, Steinwachs D, and Hall KC. Impact of Managed Care on Prescription Drug Use. Health Affairs 1991;10(1):140-154.

Weiner J, Powe N, Steinwachs D, and Dent G. Applying Insurance Claims Data To Assess Quality of Care: A Compilation of Potential Indicators. Quality Review Bulletin 1990;16(12):424-438. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J, and Ferriss DM. GP Budget Holding in The United Kingdom: Learning from American HMOs. Health Policy 1990;16:209-220. (29)

(Go to www.pubmed.gov and enter Weiner JP for full listing of articles)