Donald M. Steinwachs, Ph.D.

Dr. Steinwachs is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Health Services Research and Development Center at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Steinwachs' research interests are improving medical effectiveness and patient outcomes, use of management information systems to monitor quality of care, examining the impact of financing alternatives on cost and quality, and health system performance. His current research seeks to understand effective methods for increasing adherence to evidence-based practice and identifying patterns of care associated with improved outcomes for chronic diseases.

Dr. Steinwachs has contributed to the literature on the impact of managed care and payments systems on access to care, quality, utilization, and cost. He was a co-developer of the widely used ACG (Adjusted Clinical Groups) case mix adjustment. He has developed methods for measuring provider continuity, needs and unmet needs for care, and measures of the timeliness of care. He has a particular interest in the role of routine management information systems (MIS) as source of data for evaluating the effectiveness and cost of health care. This includes work on the integration of outcomes management systems with existing MIS in managed care settings.

Dr. Steinwachs was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and serves as a member of the Board on Research Data and Information, the Committee on Research Personnel Needs in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences, and the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine. He just completed participation as a member of its Board of Health Care Services. Dr. Steinwachs is past President of the Association for Health Services Research (renamed AcademyHealth). A member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics since 2002, Dr. Steinwachs chairs the Subcommittee on Populations and serves on the Executive Committee.

Dr. Steinwachs holds a BS in Engineering Mathematics, a MS in Systems Engineering, from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from The Johns Hopkins University.

Donald M. Steinwachs, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Health Services Research and Development Center
Department of Health Policy and Management
The Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 N. Broadway, Room 652
Baltimore, MD 21205
410-955-6562
FAX 410-955-0470
dsteinwa@jhsph.edu