Partners Harvard Medical International

Partners HealthCare International

Type	Non-Profit
Industry	Health Care
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts
Key people	CEO: Andrew A. Jeon, MD, MBA; COO: S Bruce Dowton, MD
Number of employees	50
Website	www.phmi.partners.org

Partners HealthCare International (PHI) provides advisory services and professional consulting to organizations outside the United States. PHMI is a subsidiary of Partners HealthCare System, a non-profit health care system based in Boston, Massachusetts.{dead link}

PHMI was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of Harvard University. From 1994 until 2008, the organization was known as Harvard Medical International, or HMI. Operated as a division of Harvard Medical School, HMI’s original focus was to work with institutions around the world – primarily medical schools and health care delivery organizations – interested in developing education programs and health care programs with the help of Harvard professors and the staff of Harvard Medical School. In April 2008, HMI became Partners Harvard Medical International and became part of Partners HealthCare. Since 1994, the company has developed collaborative relationships with institutions in more than 40 countries.

PHMI’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 PHMI and its clients. PHMI 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.

PHMI’s early work focused on helping medical schools research and implement up-to-date curriculum models. PHMI has relationships with medical faculties at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and the Dresden University of Technology. Other long-standing relationships include PHMI’s work with Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan.