Dedicated to meeting the shared health information needs of the community.

Strategic Context

Healthcare in the United States is delivered within a pluralistic and competitive marketplace that changes regularly to meet the needs of increasingly sophisticated consumers.

To describe the system as complex hardly conveys the range of benefits offered (both by public and private parties), the range of therapeutic options available, the payment models and public health initiatives to prevent illness and promote healthy lifestyles.

Ethical issues are confronted daily regarding access, payment, policy choices, terminal illness care, fetal health, etc.

Single institution initiatives may be brilliant yet are quickly lost in the background noise of other brilliant decisions.  Multi-million dollar investments that take years to implement and many more years to “pay back” discourage quick adoption of potentially dramatic, but not-yet-confirmed, clinical breakthroughs.

Each participant’s success in the system is dependent on how well their contribution advances the interests of the other participants.

The Foundation creates a variety of mechanisms to increase the conversation on these subjects among participants.  With Foundation support, health care leaders and consumers identify objectives that go beyond established borders, identify projects that improve outcomes and constantly attempt to reduce redundancies and administrative complexity.