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Our Company and Organizations Served
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 designing, developing and
implementing outcomes management programs, systems, software 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 launched 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
home health
and community-based outcomes and have authored countless
articles and several books on the subjects of evidence-based
practice, disease management, 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.
Bios
Colleen
Miller, RN, BS, CSBC Principal of Miller & Huffman
Outcome Architects, LLC is an author, writer, speaker,
clinical outcome systems designer and Certified Small
Business Coach with 30+ years healthcare clinical,
operational and executive leadership experience.
Colleen's focus for the last 13 years has been quality
outcomes, evidence-based practice, chronic condition disease
management, health coaching strategies/techniques and health
outcome systems design and integration, including telehealth
and web-based applications. Colleen is the Co-developer of
WOCN-Connect, a web-based Telewound Care Service (www.wocn-connect.com)
owned and operated by Miller & Huffman Outcome Architects,
LLC, and Co-founder of the National Society Health Coaches (www.nwhcoa.com).
Colleen has authored many publications and articles
including: ICD-9-CM Coding Quick Reference for Home
Health Clinicians and Managers 1st and 2nd Editions,
2005 & 2006 Published by Hopkins Education Resources,
co-author of Evidence-based Interventions & Decision
Support for the Management of Chronic Conditions in OASIS C,
2010 and BluePrints for Chronic Condition Management,
2009 – both Published by Miller & Huffman Outcome
Architects. She is also the Researcher/Developer of the
Teletriage Symptom Reference contained in the Centers
for Medicare/Medicaid Services Quality Insights Home Health
Telehealth Reference 2006/2007 and is a contributing author
of Implementing Outcome-Based Home Care; a Workbook of
OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management.
Colleen 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.
Organizations Served
Colleen Miller and Melinda
Huffman are privileged to assist clients in all phases of
business through speaking engagements, focus groups,
education, or general consulting about home and
community-based care, clinical and financial outcomes, pay
for performance, chronic condition management, and outcomes
added value to products. They bring cutting edge
information about the focus and future of home and
community-based care and collaboration across healthcare
settings. Some of the prestigious organizations that
have enlisted their services/presentations include:
Arkansas Home Care Association
Association of Homecare & Hospice of North Carolina
Beacon Health
Briggs Corporation
ConvaTec
Eastern Area Health Education Center
Edgepark Medical Supplies
First Call Home Health Care
Homecare Association of Georgia
GulfSouth
Medical Supply
Hamilton Medical Center
Healthcare Education Association of
North America
Hill-Rom Home Care
Homecare Alliance of
Massachusetts
Home Care & Hospice Association of North Carolina
Home Care & Hospice Association of Puerto Rico
Hopkins Medical Products
Indiana Home Care Association
Infopia USA
Iowa Hospital Association
Iowa Health Home Care
Kentucky Home Care Association |
Lee Warner Medical Interventions, LTD
LifeCare at Home
LifeTime Care Home Health and Hospice
McKesson
National Association
of
Homecare
and Hospice
Nightingale Home Healthcare, Inc.
Odyssey Hospice, Inc.
Ohio Counsel for Home Care
Paradigm Rehab and Nursing
Phillips Lifeline
Quality Healthcare Resources
QSource of Tennessee
Quality Insights,
National Quality
Improvement Organization,
Home Health
Saad Healthcare
Smith-Nephew
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP)
Stratus Health of
Minnesota
Tennessee Association for Home Care
Texas Association for Home Care
West Virginia Medical Institute |
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