Partners HealthCare International (PHI) provides advisory services and professional consulting to organizations outside the United States. PHI is a subsidiary of Partners HealthCare System, a non-profit health care system based in Boston, Massachusetts.

History

PHI was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

. From 1994 until 2008, the organization was known as Harvard Medical International, or HMI. Operated as a division of Harvard Medical School, HMI's original focus was to work with institutions around the world — primarily medical schools and health care delivery organizations — interested in developing education programs and health care programs with the help of Harvard professors and the staff of Harvard Medical School. In April 2008, HMI became Partners Harvard Medical International and became part of Partners HealthCare. Since 1994, the company has developed collaborative relationships with institutions in more than 40 countries.

Organization

PHI's clients are primarily health care organizations or systems, academic medical institutions or other schools in the health sciences, government and non-governmental agencies, and others groups that develop health care and education projects. PHMI helps clients with strategic planning, infrastructure, facilities, and systems planning, clinical and educational program design, professional development programming, and quality improvement programs. Many PHMI projects involve work in a variety of areas of expertise and draw on collaboration between the staffs of PHI and its clients. PHI works with members of the Harvard University faculty and clinical staff from Harvard-affiliated hospitals in the Boston area, including

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and Brigham & Women's Hospital, who consult on its projects. PHI's early work focused on helping medical schools research and implement up-to-date curriculum models. PHI has relationships with medical faculties at Alfaisal University in

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Ludwig Maximilians University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operati ...

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and the

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. Other long-standing relationships include PHMI's work with

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, and

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in Japan. During the last decade, PHI has worked on an increasing number of projects focused on developing health care delivery systems and organizations. In 2003, PHMI began working with Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), the large health care and education free zone development supported by the Government of

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. PHI helped design the rules and regulations for the health care city and the processes DHCC used to bring in new health care services providers. Another PHI project is its collaboration with Wockhardt Hospitals Limited, a private sector chain of super-specialty hospitals based in

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. In 2005, after PHMI and Wockhardt together designed a quality and performance improvement program, Wockhardt's Mulund hospital received accreditation from

Joint Commission International The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. The international branch accredits medical services from around the world. A majori ...

(JCI). Further work led to JCI's accreditation of Wockhardt's Bangalore hospital in 2008."Quality efforts at Wockhardt earn international accreditation"
PHMI News. Retrieved on 2010-01-29. Recent projects have focused on improving diabetes care in Libya, helping develop of a new medical school in Saudi Arabia, and conceptual planning for schools of nursing, medicine, and allied health in Pakistan. PHI has also partnered with Vitals Global Healthcare, which is entrusted to develop new facilities in Malta, under a PPP initiative estimated at around 200 million Euro to introduce new medical facilities on the island.Partners HealthCare International and Vitals Global Healthcare Sign Agreement to Improve Health Care Services in Malta
/ref> PHI has around 20 full-time employees based in its Boston headquarters. A number of full-time staff are on the faculty of

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and have served in different roles at Harvard-affiliated hospitals in the Boston area. Its staff has expertise in nursing, architecture and facilities planning, and

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