Colleen Miller & Melinda Huffman, Principals of Miller & Huffman Outcome Architects, LLC, Winchester, Tennessee, have each made a career-long commitment to improving health outcomes by developing and implementing outcomes management programs, systems and tools for both the hospital and homecare industries.  

With over 50 years combined administrative, clinical, and financial healthcare experience, they came together in 2005 as a company to assist healthcare providers and vendors with health outcomes and disease management initiatives through consultation and outcome-based services and products; the first being Home Health Evidence-based Fall Prevention, distributed by the Briggs Corporation.  In 2008, Miller & Huffman launches their premier wound management subscription service WOCN-Connect and its revolutionary wound outcomes software, along with their Disease Management BluePrints™.  

Additionally, Miller & Huffman, in collaboration with Team at Work, developed Health Coaching Made Easy for Healthcare Providers, the first self-study Health Coach Certification program designed specifically for clinicians, therapists, pharmacists and physicians to improve health outcomes through enhanced patient self-management of chronic conditions.

Today, Miller & Huffman are nationally recognized experts in health outcomes and disease management and have authored countless articles and several books on the subjects of evidence-based practice, outcomes and chronic condition management. Their contribution is unsurpassed, helping providers and vendors to ready themselves for pay-for-performance and consumer-driven healthcare.

Consulting and speaking across the nation for both the home health industry, its product vendors, and the DME industry, Miller & Huffman offer cutting-edge solutions to improve clinical and financial outcomes, to implement home health disease management and outcome-based performance evaluations, to guide strategic collaboration of providers and product vendors, and to enhance value of healthcare products and sales strategies through their health outcomes-based approach.

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Colleen Miller, RN, BS, CSBC Principal of Miller & Huffman Outcome Architects, LLC is an author, writer and speaker with 28 years of healthcare experience ranging from hospital administration, to home care executive management.

Colleen's focus for the last eleven years has been disease management and health outcomes design and integration including developing disease management programs and telemedicine initiatives, and building corporate vendor alliances and partnerships.

She is the author of: ICD-9-CM Coding Quick Reference for Home Health Clinicians and Managers 1st (2005) and 2nd Editions (2006), Researcher/Developer of the Teletriage Symptom Reference contained in the Quality Insights Home Health Telehealth Reference 2006/2007, and a contributing author of Implementing Outcome-Based Home Care.

She is a graduate of the University of Toledo and Covenant College with degrees in Nursing and Business.

Melinda Huffman, BSN, MSN, CCNS and Principal of Miller & Huffman Outcome Architects, LLC is a nationally known author, writer and speaker.  

Melinda has thirty years experience in hospital and home care administration, clinical supervision, quality
management and staff development, with fifteen years devoted to healthcare outcomes management. She is a former Director of Disease Management for a leading, home health corporation and Director of Nursing Education, Motlow College in Lynchburg, TN.

She received her BSN from the University of Alabama, Birmingham and a MSN in Cardiovascular Clinical Specialization from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.  

Melinda is the author of the homecare best seller: Implementing Outcome-Based Homecare: A Workbook of OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management and is receiving excellent reviews for her latest work, Home Health Outcomes, Pay for Performance, Disease Management: Gold Nuggets to Success!  

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Home Healthcare Nurse and writes regularly for nationally known home care journals and newsletters.