Projects
The projects below are representative of recent work undertaken by HOI. Please use our search function on this page to look at current and past projects in more detail.
Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Pilot
Client: New Zealand Police
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was engaged by New Zealand Police to design and implement the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System (N...
Better Skills, Best Care Service-Wide Projects Evaluation
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was commissioned in 2006 a process and impact evaluation of the Better Skills, Best Care Service-wide Projects. Th...
Development of a Mental Health Promotion Strategic Purchasing Framework
Client: Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health engaged HOI to develop a strategic framework to guide the purchase of mental health promotion services funded by the Public Hea...
Effectiveness of Student Wellbeing Programs in Governement Primary and Secondary Schools
Client: Auditor General Victoria
Assistance with planning process. Involved literature review and consultation with key stakeholders. Aim was to produce an audit specification whi...
Evaluate Mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
Health Outcomes International was engaged to undertake an evaluation of a two-year trial of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) service in rural Victor...
Evaluate the Mental Health Support for Drought Affected Communities Initiative
Client: Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing engaged Health Outcomes Intrnational to evaluate the Mental Health Support for Drought Affected Communities Initia...
Evaluation of Community Cancer Support Service Pilot Project - Rural
Client: Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health has engaged HOI to conduct a three year evaluation of three pilot programmes providing community cancer support services.&a...
Evaluation of Community Cancer Support Service Pilot Projects - Urban
Client: Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health has engaged HOI to conduct a three year evaluation of three pilot programmes providing community cancer support services.&a...
Evaluation of NSW Health Mental Health-Aged Care Partnership Initiative
Client: NSW Health
NSW Health engaged HOI in June 2007 to conduct an evaluation of two pilot partnership services being established by NSW Health, the Australian Governm...
Evaluation of School Based Edible Gardens
Client: District Health Board - West Coast
The West Coast District Health Board (WCDHB), on behalf of all South Island DHBs, contracted Health Outcomes International to undertake a South Is...
Evaluation of the COAG Supporting Measures Relating to Needle & Syringe Programs in Victoria
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
HOI was appointed by the Victorian Department of Human Services to conduct an evaluation of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Illicit Drug ...
Evaluation of the Diabetes Pilot Program
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
Health Outcomes International was contracted in October 2007 to undertake a two stage evaluation of the Diabetes Medication Assistance Service (DM...
Evaluation of the SA Better Health Initiatives Program
Client: SA Health
HOI was engaged to design and undertake a comprehensive evaluation of a series of Australian Better Health Initiative Programs including the flags...
Evaluation of the Social Housing Advocacy and Support Program (SHASP)
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The Social Housing Advocacy and Support Program (SHASP) is a Victorian government regionally based initiative aimed at improving housing outcomes ...
Evaluation of the Statewide Infant Screening - Hearing (SWISH) Program
Client: NSW Health
The Department of NSW Health appointed Health Outcomes International on 3 July 2009 to work with the Primary Health and Community Partnerships Branch ...
Evaluation of the Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Collaborative: Phase 2
Client: Te Pou
The Ministry of Health engaged the New Zealand Guidelines Group to implement the Guideline for the Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suic...
Implementation of the National Eye and Tissue Network
Client: Department of Health & Ageing
The Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority engaged Health Outcomes International (HOI) in February 2009 to evaluate supply...
Mental Health Toolkit for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Client: Department of Health & Ageing
The development of a culturally appropriate Mental Health toolkit for health practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peop...
NSW Clinical Costing Implementation Audit
Client: NSW Health
Health Outcomes International was engaged by NSW health on 14 September 2009 to undertake an audit of the implementation of clinical costing approache...
Reducing Risky Drinking Evaluation
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The Victorian Department of Health commissioned HOI to evaluate the Reducing Risky Drinking Project. This project comprised a series of demonstration ...
Review of Service Models for Specialist Services
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
Health Outcomes International were engaged by The Department of Human Services (DHS), Disability Services Division (DSD) to undertake a review of exis...
Review of Social Support and Respite in the Home and Community Care (HACC) and Aged Care Programs
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The Department of Human Services Victoria appointed Health Outcomes International (HOI) in July 2009 to review the range and effectiveness of models o...
Statewide Evaluation of Drug & Alcohol Consultation Liaison Services
Client: Department of Health NSW
NSW Health appointed Health Outcomes International to evaluate the cost effectiveness and/or cost consequences, systems changes, health outcomes and w...
The Evaluation of the Treatment Injury Legislation
Client: Accident Compensation Corporation
New legislation was introduced in New Zealand with the intent of removing the culture of 'blame and shame' associated with medical misadventure. The N...
Bed Substitution in Acute Psychiatric Treatment for Older People
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The evaluation of the ICT pilots sought to inform the Department of Human Services as to whether the bed substitution model is an effective and effici...
Case Study on the Effectiveness of Manukau City Council Procurement Policies and Practices
Client: Department of Labour Te Tari Mahi
The Department of Labour engaged HOI to provide an evaluation of the procurement arrangements of Manukau City Council (MCC). The Department required a...
Disability Service Users & Carers Satisfaction Survey
Client: Disability Services Queensland
Disability Services Queensland engaged HOI to conduct a satisfaction survey of Disability Service Users, Mental Health Service Users and Carers. The s...
Early Intervention Research
Client: Disability Services Queensland
HOI was asked to develop a research based paper that analysed available evidence regarding early intervention in the context of specialist disabil...
Evaluation of the Dose Administration Aids (DAA) & Patient Medication Profiling (PMP) Programs
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing engaged HOI to conduct a two year evaluation of the DAA/PMP programs which were established ...
Evaluation of the Fruit in Schools Programme
Client: Ministry of Health
The Fruit on Schools Program is part of the NZ Government's Cancer Control Action Plan. The purpose of FIS is to support schools to address four key c...
Evaluation of the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ) Project
Client: Department of Health & Ageing
The University of Melbourne was contracted to undertake a pilot quality assurance program and create a database for the Stanford model of Chronic ...
Evaluation of the Victorian Dual Disability Service
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
Evaluation of the Victorian Dual Disability Service (VDDS) Enhanced Regional Service Response (ERSR)
Evaluations of 'Tracks are for Trains' - A rail safe education programme
Client: NZ Transport Agency
The 'Tracks are for Trains' programme aims to teach school children in years 0-8 about safe behaviour on or near trains and railway tracks and to help...
Family Support Program Evaluation
Client: Queensland Government
The Family Support Program (FSP) is intended to support families caring for someone with a disability, at home, empowering families and helping them s...
Meta-Evaluation of interventions aimed at promoting the use of pharmacotherapies for alcohol misuse
Client: Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation
This project involved the meta-evaluation of six Division of General Practice initiatives designed to promote the use of pharmacotherapies by General ...
PNG Health Sector Independent Monitoring Review Group
Client: NZAID
All stakeholders recognize the need for an independent monitoring function to be part of PNG health system performance monitoring system. An indep...
Radiology Financial Modelling
Client: Queensland Health
Queensland Health engaged Health Outcomes International in August 2007 to undertake a costing of medical imaging services financial model and develop ...
SADD Evaluation
Client: Land Transport NZ
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) commissioned HOI, in association with the NZ Council for Educational Research, to evaluate the Students Against Driving...
Toddlers without Tears Formative Evaluation
Client: Ministry of Social Development
Toddlers without Tears (TWT) is a parent education programme aimed at reducing the incidence of childhood externalising behaviours (e.g. biting, kicki...
Autism Spectrum Disorder Best Practice Guideline: An Impact Analysis/Assessment
Client: Ministry of Health
An Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Guideline has been developed in New Zealand for the first time. It provides evidence based information primarily for...
Development of the Evaluation Framework for the National Suicide Prevention Strategy
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
Health Outcomes International was engaged by the Department of Health & Ageing to develop an evaluation framework for the National Suicide Pre...
Disability Service Users & Carers Satisfaction Survey & Mental Health Service Users Satisfaction Sur
Client: Disability Services Queensland
Disability Services Queensland engaged HOI to conduct a satisfaction survey of Disability Service Users, Mental Health Service Users and Carers. The s...
Evaluation of the Early Years Service Hubs
Client: Ministry of Social Development
The Ministry of Social Development engaged HOI to conduct Phase 2 of the Early Years Service Hubs Evaluation. The initiative provides a mechanism for ...
MH-SMART Evaluation Services
Client: Ministry of Health
MH-SMART has embarked on a national process for the routine collection of standard measures of mental health consumer outcomes to assess treatment eff...
Population Based Resource Allocation Model (PBRAM)
Client: Department of Health, South Australia
Health Outcomes International was contracted in November 2009 to assist in the Department of Health - SA in the development of the 2008/09 Populat...
Primary Mental Health Workforce Development - Early Implementation Guide
Client: Ministry of Health
In association with Te Pou (The National Centre of Mental Health), HOI developed an Early Implementation Guide for Primary Mental Health Workforce Dev...
An Audit of Home and Community Support Sector Standard
Client: Ministry of Health
The review focussed on ascertaining from Home Based Support Service providers what processes and resources their organisation:(a) committed as part of...
Evaluation of the Community Advisory Communities to Boards of Victorian Public Health Services
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The evaluation took place over six months commencing late 2007 and involved the evaluation of legislatively mandated Community Advisory Committees (CA...
Evaluation of the Extended Discretion Funding
Client: Accident Compensation Corporation
The Extended Discretionary Funding legislation, which came into effect on 1 July 2005 as part of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensati...
Provision of an Evaluation of the Pathways Home Program
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing commissioned HOI in April 2007 to undertake the evaluation of the Pathways Home Program. The objective of the eval...
Research and Evaluation Services to Support the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was contracted to provide Research and Evaluation Services to support the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program ...
Review Regulatory Framework Governing Solid Organs and Tissues and Reproductive Tissues
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing appointed HOI in May 2007 to undertaking a mapping exercise of existing regulatory frameworks relating to solid or...
Analysis of the Workforce for Antenatal Down's Syndrome Screening
Client: Ministry of Health
The National Screening Unit (NSU) undertook a comprehensive policy process to assess the various options for antenatal screening for Down's syndrome a...
Consumer Acceptability Study for Antenatal Down's Syndrome Screening
Client: Ministry of Health
The National Screening Unit (NSU) was undertaking a comprehensive policy process to assess the various options for antenatal screening for Down's synd...
Consumer and Carer Involvement in Comorbidity Treatment
Client: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Health Outcomes International conducted a study on the involvement of people with coexisting mental health and substance use disorders (comorbidity) a...
Development of Resource Allocation Model
Client: Queensland Health
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was appointed by Queensland Health in March 2006 to develop a Population Based Resource Allocation Model and provi...
Evaluation of the Home Based Support Service (HBSS) Training Initiative
Client: Ministry of Health
This project was to design and conduct an evaluation of the development and implementation of assessment and training to support Home Based Support Se...
Evaluation of the Victorian Prison Drug Strategy and Opioid Substitution Therapy Program
Client: Department of Justice - Victoria
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was appointed to evaluate the Victorian Prison Drug Strategy and Opioid Substitution Therapy Program, by the Victo...
Funding model options for dispensing of pharmacotherapies in community pharmacy
Client: Pharmacy Guild of Australia
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia undertook a research project to develop, implement and evaluate funding model options for dispensing of pharmacotherap...
Review of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing engaged consultants to examine the operational activities, funding and governance arrangements of the RFDS and mak...
Rural Access Review
Client: Cancer Institute NSW
As part of the NSW Cancer Plan 2004-2006, the Cancer Institute commissioned a review of rural access to cancer services, Health Outcomes International...
Survey of low-income debtors: Phase 2 - research on debtors to multiple state agencies
Client: Ministry of Social Development
The Ministry of Social Development engaged Health Outcomes International to conduct a survey of low-income debtors. Following the completion of a comp...
Development of Critical Care Service Weights - AR-DRG Version 5
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing engaged consultants to undertake a data collection and costing of critical care services including adult intensive...
Development of Operating Room Service Weights - AR-DRG Version 5
Client: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing engaged consultants to undertake a data collection and costing of operating room services using Version 5 of the A...
Evaluation of Training & Related Services for the People at Risk of Suicide Guideline
Client: Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health funded the development of the 'Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide Guideline'. To support implementation of ...
Dental Services Pricing Review
Client: Department of Health, Western Australia
The Department of Health, Western Australia engaged consultants to undertake a pricing review of the Oral Health Centre for WA public patient services...
Evaluation of the Retractable Needle and Syringe Technology Initiative
Client: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
HOI conducted an evaluation of each component of the Implementation Plan for the Retractable Needle and Syringe Technology between 2002-03 and 2004-05...
Evaluation of the Strengthening & Supporting Families with Illicit Drug Use Measure
Client: Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services
Health Outcomes International was engaged to evaluate the COAG funded 'Strengthening and Supporting Families Coping with Illicit Drug Use Measure'. Th...
Financial & Performance Audit of the NSW Health Pharmacotherapy Program
Client: Health Outcomes International, in association with IAB Services, were engaged by the NSW Cabinet Off
Health Outcomes International, in association with IAB Services, were engaged by the NSW Cabinet Office and New South Wales Health to undertake a fina...
Impact Assessment of Population based resource allocation on non-metropolitan regions
Client: Department of Human Services, South Australia
The Country Health Services Division of the (then) Department of Human Services in South Australia engaged consultants to identify and analyse the spe...
Measure Existing & Future Demands on Family & Youth Services
Client: Department of Human Services - South Australia
Health Outcomes International (HOI), in association with CPD Biz Consulting undertook the consultancy with the Department of Human Services to measure...
Mid Program Review and Evaluation - Aged Care Workforce Initiatives
Client: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Health Outcomes International (HOI) was engaged to undertake the evaluation of the Aged Care Workforce Initiatives. The study included the development...
International Review of Workforce Planning Initiatives
Client: Department of Health, Western Australia
The Western Australian Department of Health engaged consultants to prepare a discussion paper providing an overview of the status of workforce plannin...
Development of a Population Based Resource Allocation Model
Client: Department of Health, South Australia
The Department of Health, South Australia commissioned consultants to develop a Population Based Resource Allocation Model to provide for equitable pe...
Review of length of stay for older persons in acute and sub-acute sectors
Client: Department of Health, NSW
The NSW Department of Health as part of the collaborate work program on the care of older Australians established by the Australian Health Ministers' ...
Review of Clinical Costing System
Client: Department of Human Services, Victoria
The Department of Human Services Victoria engaged consultants to undertake a review of the Transition Clinical Costing system implemented at the Austi...
Review of Neonatal AN-DRG Cost Weights
Client: Department of Human Services - Victoria
The Victorian casemix funding model revealed significant flaws in relation to the funding of neonatal services. The project reviewed all cost weights ...
Review of paediatric palliative care service models
Client: Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing commissioned a review of models of paediatric palliative care across different life limiting illnesses.  ...