General interests lie within the fields of health care policy and health services research and evaluation and in health care /population health informatics.

Specific areas of interest include: health IT / informatics as applied to population health & quality of care; primary/ambulatory care; quality of care; managed care & health insurance; health workforce planning; case-mix and risk-adjustment; and international comparisons of primary care organization & finance.

Dr. Weiner is the co-developer and Team executive director of the widely used Johns Hopkins ACG Case-Mix / Predictive Modeling System. See ACG web site at www.acg.jhsph.edu for further information about the ACG software. ACGs are the most successful technology transfer / IP project in the history of the Johns Hopkins University.

See JHSPH "open course ware" site for free access to Dr. Weiner's "Managed Care and Health Insurance" course material: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/managedcare/

His health services research and evaluation course material: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/HSRE/

An interview with Dr. Weiner was featured in the June 2007 edition of Managed Care magazine. See: http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0706/0706.qna_weiner.html

Health services research & evaluation, health policy, primary/ambulatory care, health informatics and population health, quality of care, managed care & health insurance, workforce planning, case-mix/risk adjustment, cross-national comparisons.

Past President of the Bloomberg School's Faculty Senate (2003-2004)

Fellow, Academy for Health Services Research and Policy (now known as AcademyHealth)

American Public Health Association (Medical Care Section)

American Medical Informatics Association

Atlantic Fellow In Public Policy. Awarded by the British Government (1999)

Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, 2004-

Member, National Blue Cross/Shield Research Advisory Committee, 2003-2006

Frequent guest and commentator on national and local NPR radio shows

Selected Monographs:

Weiner J, Lewis R, Gillam S. US Managed Care and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs): Lessons To A Small Island From a Lost Continent. The King’s Fund, London, 2001.

(Available at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pdf/USManagedCarePCTs.pdf)

Stoline A and Weiner J. The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care System in the 1990s. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, 1993. (With a foreword by Arnold Relman)

Weiner J, with Ferriss D. GP Budget Holding in the UK: Lessons from America. The King's Fund, London, 1990.

Selected Articles / Chapters:

Forrest C, Lemke K, Bodycombe D, Weiner JP. Medication, Diagnostic, and Cost Information as Predictors of High Risk Patients in Need of Care Management. American J of Managed Care, 2009; 15 (1): 13-22.

Weiner JP, Famadas JC, Waters HR, Gikic D., Managed care and private health insurance in a global context. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2008 Dec;33(6):1107-31

Weiner, J, Kfuri, T, Chan, K, Fowles, J. “e-Iatrogenesis:” The most critical unintended consequence of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and other health information technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Assoc , 2007:14:387-388

Weiner, J. Expanding the US medical workforce: global perspectives and parallels. British Medical Journal, 4 August 2007.

Weiner, J, A Comparison of Prepaid Group Practice Staffing With US Physician Supply: Implications For Medical Workforce Policy. Health Affairs, Web Exclusive. February 4, 2004 (Featured with 6 editorials)

(Available at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.43)

Braun B, Fowles J, Forrest C, Kind E, Foldes S, Weiner J. Which Enrollees Bypass Their Gatekeepers in a Point-of-Service Plan? Medical Care, 2003; 41:836-841.

Starfield B, Lemke K, Bernhardt T, Foldes S, Forrest C, Weiner J. Co-Morbidity: Implications for the Importance of Primary Care in “Case” Management. Annals of Family Medicine, May/June 2003; 1 (1).

Available at: http://annalsfm.highwire.org/cgi/reprint/1/1/8.pdf

Forrest C, Majeeed A, Weiner J, Carroll K, Bindman A. Referral of Children to Specialists in the United States and United Kingdom. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2003; 157-279-285.

Forrest C, Majeed A, Weiner J, Carroll K, Bindman A. Comparison of Specialty Referral Rates in the United Kingdom and the United States: retrospective cohort analysis. British Medical Journal, August 2002, Volume 325: 370-371.

Solberg L, Lyles A., Shore A, Lemke K, Weiner J. Is Quality Free? The Relationship Between Cost and Quality Across Eighteen Provider Groups. American Journal of Managed Care, May 2002, Volume 8(5): 413-422.

Burton L, Weiner J, Stevens G, Kasper J. Health Outcomes and Medicaid Costs for Frail Older Individuals: A Case Study of MCO vs. Fee-for-Service Care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, February 2002, Volume 50(2) 382.

Weiner J. A Shortage of Physicians or a Surplus of Assumptions? Health Affairs. January/February 2002, Volume 21(1): 160-162.

Lyles A, Weiner J, Shore A, Christianson J, Solberg L, Drury P. Cost and Quality Trends in an Employer-to-Provider Direct Contracting Arrangement. Health Affairs, January/February 2002.

Weiner J, Gillam S, Lewis R. The Organisation and Financing of British Primary Care Groups & Trusts: Observations Through the Prism of US Managed Care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 7(1) January 2002.

Majeed A, Bindman A, Weiner J. Use of Risk Adjustment in Budget Setting and Performance Measurement in Primary Care: Lessons from the USA (Two Part Article), British Medical Journal. 2001, 323: 604 – 610.

Bindman A, Weiner J, Majeed A. Primary Care Groups in The United Kingdom: Quality and Accountability. Health Affairs, 2001; 20(3) 132-145.

Forrest C, Weiner J, Fowles J, Vogeli C, Frick K, Lemke K, Starfield B. Self-referral in Point-of-Service Health Plans. JAMA, 2001; 285: 2223-2231.

Weiner J. Tucker A. Collins M. Fakhraei H. R. Lieberman, C. Abrams, G. Trapnell, J Folkemer. The Development of a Risk-Adjusted Capitation Payment System for Medicaid MCOs: the Maryland Model. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 1998: 21(4) 29-52

Cleves M. Weiner J. Cohen W. Et al. Assessing HCFA's Health Care Quality Improvement Program, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, October 1997;23:550-560.

Fowles J, Weiner JP, Knutson D, Fowler E, Tucker AM and Ireland M. Taking Health Status Into Account When Setting Capitation Rates: a Comparison of Risk Adjustment Methods. JAMA 1996:276:1316-1321 (Finalist, Article of the Year, National Institute for Health Care Management.)

Weiner, J., Dobson, A., Maxwell, S., Coleman, K., Starfield B., Anderson., A., Setting Risk-Adjusted Capitation Rates for Medicare Using Ambulatory and Inpatient Claims Diagnoses, Health Care Financing Review, 1996 Spring #3, pp. 77-99

Weiner J, Starfield B, Stuart M, Powe N and Steinwachs D. Ambulatory Care Practice Variation Within a Medicaid Program. Health Services Research, 1996; 30:751-770.

Weiner J, Parente S, Garnick D, Fowles J and Lawther A. Variations in Office Based Quality: Claims-Based Profile of Care Provided to Medicare Patients With Diabetes. JAMA, 1995; 273(19):1503-1508. (Editorially Featured)

Starfield B, Powe N, Weiner J, Stuart M, Steinwachs D, Scholle S and Gerstenberger A. Costs Versus Quality in Different Types of Primary Care Settings. JAMA, 1994; 272:1903-1908. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J. The Effects of Health Reform on US Physician Requirements: Evidence From HMO Staffing Patterns. JAMA, 1994; 272:222-230. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J, Starfield B, Steinwachs D, and Mumford L. Development and Application of a Population Oriented Measure of Ambulatory Care Case-Mix. Med Care 1991;29:452-472.

Weiner J, Lyles CA, Steinwachs D, and Hall KC. Impact of Managed Care on Prescription Drug Use. Health Affairs 1991;10(1):140-154.

Weiner J, Powe N, Steinwachs D, and Dent G. Applying Insurance Claims Data To Assess Quality of Care: A Compilation of Potential Indicators. Quality Review Bulletin 1990;16(12):424-438. (Editorially Featured)

Weiner J, and Ferriss DM. GP Budget Holding in The United Kingdom: Learning from American HMOs. Health Policy 1990;16:209-220. (29)

(Go to www. pubmed.gov and enter Weiner JP for full listing of articles)