Team Members

Harris Allen, PhD
Founder and Principal
Harris Allen Group, LLC

After more than 15 years in corporate and consulting positions, Dr. Allen formed this group in 1997 with a multi-disciplinary team of colleagues to provide consulting on health and productivity measurement and management and on health care strategy development.

Dr. Allen’s work history in performance consulting, research and evaluation have spanned posts in the non-profit and private sectors. He has served at The Rand Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, New England Medical Center, Coopers & Lybrand, LLP, and the Yale School of Epidemiology & Public Health.

He has directed numerous projects involving the development, implementation, analysis and reporting of surveys and integrated databases. The clients have ranged from employers, employer coalitions, health plans, health plan associations, pharmaceutical and specialty firms to state agencies. His specialty is working with tools that scientifically measure and manage various ssues related to productivity, safety, disease management, quality of care, health care outcomes and patient satisfaction, workers compensation and disability, group health, pharmaceutical use, managed care and return on investment.

He has published and presented widely on numerous topics in health, productivity and health care. He is currently a senior scholar at Jefferson Medical Colleage, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Click here for a short bio statement. Click here for his curriculum vitae.

Statistical / Research Methods

William Rogers, PhD
Senior Scientist
Tufts Medical Center
and
Principal
Quality Data Management, Inc.

Dr. Rogers is widely recognized as a leading statistician in health services research.  He serves as a senior scientist at Tufts Medical Center and is a principal at a leading data collection firm, Quality Data Management.  He also advises a variety of clients in business, academia, and government on development of analytic tools and their application to health issues.

He joined the then Health Institute at Tufts in 1993 to provide statistical and research design expertise, and has performed in this capacity on numerous major projects, including the Medicare HMO Study and a variety of studies focusing on the health impact of depression and pain.  Before that, Dr. Rogers was a 20-year veteran of The RAND Corporation, where he led design and analysis efforts on major research projects, including the Health Insurance Experiment, the Medical Outcomes Study, and the DRG/Prospective Payment Study. 

Dr. Rogers has worked with Dr. Allen on many projects over the years, including the Employee Health Care Value Survey for the Xerox, GTE and Digital Equipment Corporations, several Navistar projects, and several BCBS plan projects. Click here for a copy of his resume.

Database Development /Analysis

Hong Chang, PhD
Senior Statistician
Tufts Medical Center
and
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine

As a senior statistician at Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Chang conducts and oversees analyses on a number of high profile projects both internal and external to the Center. He collaborates with other senior scientists and the development of major research grants as well as the the datasases for these grants. At the Tufts School of Medicine, he teaches biostatistics and serves as a mentor to reseach fellows. He has been with Tufts in these and related capacities since 1998.

Over the years, Dr. Chang has worked with Dr. Allen on numerous studies both at Tufts (formerly New England Medical Center) and at Coopers & Lyrand, LLP. His responsibilties have included database develpment and management as well as data analyses in a variety of capacities. This colloboration has spanned several Blue Cross Blue Shield survey projects, the Consumer Health Plan Value Survey with the Xerox Corporation, GTE and Digital Equipment Corporation, and a major multdisciplinary review of the health benefts program and strategy for Masschusetts State employees for the Group Insurance Commission. Click here for a copy of his resume.

Economics/Public Health

Mark Schlesinger, PhD,
Professor, Health Economics
Yale School of Epidemiology & Public Health

Dr. Schlesinger’s research includes studies of the growth of for-profit enterprises in health and mental health care, investigations of the scope and consequences of various forms of managed care and utilization management, and analyses of public attitudes towards health care reform.  He also works on government contracting for services from private agencies and the comparative performance of private nonprofit, for-profit and public agencies.   

His most recent work focuses on how individuals make sense of their health care experiences, respond to problematic events, and make choices with limited information. This work has been applied to decisions about health plans, health care providers, and health policy options.

Dr. Schlesinger has teamed up with Dr. Allen to examine how individuals with physical illness, mental illness, and other potentially vulnerable groups fare under different forms of managed care.  Click here to see his resume.

Infrastructure Support

iiON Corporation

(www.iion.com)

iiON Corporation is a Strategic Partner in providing Enterprise Feedback Management Systems for survey, profile, segmentation of groups and sub groups, email management, rewards and realt-time analytics. Additionally, iiON’s Intellectual Property U.S. Patent-pending Application No. 11/088,581 simultaneously gather user data metrics, behaviors, attitudes and opinions, based on the user’s responses that are dynamic and in real time. iiON has partnered with us on two engagements. Click here for more on iiON and its clients.
Contact:  Roy DiBenerdini, CEO

Circum Network, Inc.

(www.circum.com)

Circum Network is a full-service research supplier specializing in quantitative analysis and high-quality, large-scale data collection. (Hull, Québec , Canada).  Over the past few years, it has developed CallWeb (callweb), a full featured on-line data collection system.  Circum has collected electronic surveys data for us on two survey projects. Contact:  Benoît Gauthier, Founder and President

Datastat, Inc.

(www.datastat.com)

This leading data collectiion firm (Ann Arbor MI) specializes in survey and sample design, data collection, and analysis and complex reporting, with state-of-the-art capabilities for the collection of data via telephone, mail, web and IVR technologies. Datastat has served as mail and phone data collection vendor on several projects. Contact: Thomas Wilkinson, Executive Vice President.