Quality, Process & Product
Improvement SystemsCompany
Harold S Haller & Company and the management of client organizations work together in order to address improvements in the organization’s key business practices and culture. Haller & Company delivers consulting, problem solving, and software training.
Continual Improvement in every aspect of a business must not be someone’s add-on assignment. It must become an integral business practice. Continual improvement demands work and determination from both Haller & Company and clients.
Services
Enumerative & Analytic
Sampling StudiesEnumerative & Analytic
Sampling StudiesExperts in enumerative sampling studies as applied in
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) audits
- Insurance company billing audits
- Industrial sampling and inspection
- Quality control
Accepted as expert witness
- 70 Medicare/Medicaid appeals retained by ALJ
- 70+ Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance appeals retained by appellants
- Quality control audits
Developed self-disclosure billing audits for healthcare-providers
Analytical Studies
Big DataAnalytical Studies
Big DataExperts in analytical studies of BIG DATA for academia, industry, government, and healthcare problem solving and quality improvement
Examples:
- The Development of High Conversion PVC Suspension Resins – A Continual Improvement Case Study
- A Nine-Year Comparison of Practice Profiles of Candidates for Primary and Recertification Examinations of the American Board of Plastic Surgery Relative to Economic Indicators
- Empirical Study Redux on Choice of Law and Forum in M&A: The Data and its Limits
- Interception efficiency of CVM-based lightning protection system for buildings and the fractional Poisson model
Haller Information Technology
HITS® SoftwareHaller Information Technology
HITS® Software“The long range contribution of statistics depends on creating a statistically minded generation of physicists, chemists, engineers, and others who will in any way have a hand in developing and directing production processes of tomorrow.” Walter Shewhart, 1933
HITS® software is intended to help achieve Shewhart’s goal by providing user-friendly, powerful statistical software for the non-statistician
HITS® EDO – Experimental Design Optimizer
HITS® MCA/MPO – Multiple Correlation/Optimization Analyses
Projects
Efficiency of CVM-Based Lightning Protection Systems
Harold S Haller & Company participated in a field study for the assessment of the interception efficiency of a lightning protection system (LPS) based on the Collection Volume Method (CVM). The average interception efficiency was found to be in very close agreement with the predicted efficiency.
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Defending Against CMS Overpayment Demands from Healthcare Providers
CMS suggests and courts agree contract auditors may use statistical sampling to determine overpayments to healthcare providers in a manner that minimizes administrative burdens. But for the demand estimate to be valid, the laws and assumptions of probability and statistics must be met. Harold Haller presented two seminars for the AHLA for defending against CMS’s demands.
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Predicting Prostate Cancer
A novel, maximum likelihood estimation - prostate specific antigen (MLE-PSA) model was developed for predicting the probability of prostate cancer using serial PSA measurements combined with PSA velocity. The use of the MLE-PSA model significantly improves prostate cancer detection and reduces the need for needle biopsy.
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Evaluating TV Viewer Monitoring Data
Analysis of the representativeness of TV Viewer Monitoring System (“VMS”) data in a major US designated marketing area (“DMA”) revealed problems gathering accurate data from African American households. The placement of VMSs in African American households is not representative of the placement of total VMSs in zip code households in the DMA based on the 2010 census.
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Factors Affecting an Admitted Student’s Decision to Enroll
Harold S Haller & Company worked with the Law School at Case Western Reserve University to develop a “Choice” model for predicting student enrollment. This process is applicable to any professional school. The model was validated with 2011 enrollment data using a classification table with 71.4 % accuracy.
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Predicting Childhood Obesity
Harold S Haller & Company developed longitudinal decision analysis to identify the odds of
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Obesity of a child at age five is indicated before the second birthday with 95% sensitivity and 97% specificity.
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Obesity at age five is indicated with 75% specificity before two months and with 84% specificity before three months of age.
Development of High Conversion PVC Suspension Resins
In September 1978 a three-man team of BF Goodrich Chemical Company scientists was designated as the PVC High Conversion Suspension Resin Task Force. The Task Force’s assignment was to develop polymerization technology, which would increase the conversion of both flexible and rigid grade resins without the lost of critical resin properties.
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Your Goals
TO FIND OUT
Why working on the process alone leads to a dead end and not the goal
Why working on people issues alone leads to a dead end and not the goal
Say About Us
Elaine Greaves, Esq., Case Western Reserve University Law School
Harold S. Haller, Director of the Case Statistical Consulting Center, was asked by Elaine Greaves, Esq. of the Case Western Reserve University Law School to statistically analyze student enrollment data in the law school in order to determine why students elect to enroll and not enroll in their program. The results of this project became a portion of graduate student’s a PhD thesis and a published paper.
A. K. Gosain, MD
Harold S. Haller, President of Harold S Haller & Company, was retained by A. K. Gosain, MD to statistically analyze of a nine-year comparison of the practice profiles of candidate for primary and recertification examinations of the American Board of Plastic Surgery relative to economic indicators, which was published in the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Juliet P. Kostritsky, Esq., Case Western Reserve Law School
Harold S. Haller, President of Harold S Haller & Company was retained by the Juliet P. Kostritsky, Esq. of the Case Western Reserve Law School to apply statistical methods to empirically study the redux on choice of law and forum in mergers and acquisitions, which was published in the Journal of Business & Securities Law in the fall of 2016.
Susie Ludington-Hoe, PhD and Lisa Gittner, PhD
Harold S. Haller, President of Harold S Haller & Company, provided the analytical and statistical expertise to Professors Susie Ludington-Hoe and Lisa Gittner with the Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing for a study using process control to measure pediatric obesity, which was published in the Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy.
CVM-based lightning protection system
Harold S. Haller and Professor Wojbor A. Woyczynski of Case Western Reserve University were retained by ERICO to independently apply statistical methods to analyze data from TUV measurements of the interception efficient of a CVM-based lightning protection system for buildings using a fractional Poisson model in the analysis. The results of this research are available through Research Gate 11-2-016
LOF-Pilkington-Nippon Sheet Glass
HITS software has been used by companies like YUM Brands and LOF-Pilkington-Nippon Sheet Glass in new product research and development. In flat glass R&D, the time to bring product from the lab to market decreased from 5 – 7 years to 2 – 18 months using HITS, adding $160 million in annual sales. Products such as Low E™ glass were developed using this methodology.
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)
Harold S. Haller, president of Harold S Haller & Company, was retained by Healthcare Management Systems, LLC based on specific requests from Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), clerks for the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, and several law firms to act as their independent sampling expert in adjudicating appeals from healthcare providers. Contact us for specific names of ALJs and law firms.
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