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
Massachusetts General Hospital 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
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and
LMU Munich and the
Dresden University of Technology in Germany. Other long-standing relationships include PHMI's work with
Asan Medical Center in
Seoul, South Korea, and
Tokyo Medical and Dental University 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
Dubai. 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
Mumbai, India. In 2005, after PHMI and Wockhardt together designed a quality and performance improvement program, Wockhardt's Mulund hospital received accreditation from
Joint Commission International (JCI). Further work led to JCI's accreditation of Wockhardt's Bangalore hospital in 2008. 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 200 million Euro to introduce new medical facilities on the island. PHI has around 20 full-time employees based in its Boston headquarters. A number of full-time staff are on the faculty of
Harvard Medical School 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
management consulting. ==See also==