Harold D. Miller is President of Future Strategies, LLC, a management and policy consulting firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also created and maintains PittsburghFuture.com, an internet resource on economic development strategy issues affecting the Pittsburgh Region, and he writes the monthly Regional Insights column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In addition, he serves as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
As part of his consulting practice, Miller has been working on a number of initiatives to improve the quality of health care services and to change the fundamental structure of health care payment systems in order to support improved quality. His work at the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) on how health care payment systems impede quality improvement was featured in Modern Healthcare magazine in December, 2007. In addition to his work with PRHI, he organized the Network for Regional Health Improvement's 2007 national Summit on health care payment reform, "Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care," and he served as the Facilitator for the Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force. 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. In November, 2007, he became the President and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and the founding Executive Director of the national Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
Miller previously served as the President of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Economy League of Southwestern Pennsylvania until November, 2005. In those roles, he designed and implemented a wide range of initiatives designed to improve the economy and quality of life in the Pittsburgh Region. He also served for 10 years as the Director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Growth Alliance, a ten-county public-private partnership dedicated to promoting the economic development needs of the region with state and federal officials.
Prior to joining the Allegheny Conference in October, 1992, Miller served for nearly six years as Associate Dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. At the Heinz School, he managed the School's nearly $10 million annual budget, supervised the School's administrative operations, and provided guidance to students in the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs. He also developed and taught the Policy Analysis Seminar, a course for advanced master's students which provided a linkage between the School's methodological courses and the practical skills needed for working on public policy issues. During the fall of 1991, Miller served as Director of Issues and Research for former Governor Dick Thornburgh's campaign for the U.S. Senate.
During the 1980s, Miller served for seven years in the Pennsylvania Governor's Office during the Thornburgh Administration. As Deputy Director and then Director of the Governor's Office of Policy Development, he was responsible for the development, review, and coordination of policy issues in all areas affecting state government, including economic and community development, education, human services, environmental protection, and criminal justice. He played a key role in the development and implementation of many state initiatives between 1980 and 1986, including the Pennsylvania Economic Revitalization Fund and Renaissance Communities Program, the Long-Term Care Assessment and Management Program, the state's mandatory sentencing and welfare reform laws, and the Governor's initiatives on Early Intervention for Handicapped Children and on Teen Pregnancy and Parenting. He also directed staff efforts for "Human Services Choices for Pennsylvanians," a three-year strategic planning process conducted by the Pennsylvania State Planning Board.
Miller currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors of Eastern Area Adult Services, Inc., an agency helping senior citizens. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. He was one of sixty individuals named "Pittsburghers of the Year" by Pittsburgh Magazine in 1998. He received the 1994 Samuel K. McCune Distinguished Service Award from the Presbyterian Association on Aging and the 1998 Award of Excellence from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership for Aging for his volunteer work in aging services.
Miller received his Master of Science in Public Management and Policy from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, and completed pre-dissertation work in the Doctor of Philosophy program at Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of several articles and papers, including "Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care: Issues and Options for Policy Reform," Commonwealth Fund, 2007; "Investing in the Future: Strategies for Human Services in Pennsylvania," in Leading Pennsylvania Into the 21st Century: Policy Strategies for the Future, 1990; "Making Do: The Effects of a Mass Transit Strike on Travel Behavior" (with Alfred Blumstein), Transportation, 1983; "Projecting the Impact of New Sentencing Laws on Prison Populations," Policy Sciences, 1981; and "Demographically Disaggregated Projections of Prison Populations" (with Alfred Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen), Journal of Criminal Justice, 1980. He is the coauthor (with Sherwood E. Zimmerman) of the 1981 book Corrections at the Crossroads: Designing Policy.