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Our mission is simple:

To serve our healthcare membership with documented value through cost savings, shared learning, and improved quality of service.

Our values are evident:

Ethics
Health Future demonstrates integrity and respect in our actions and decisions.

Service
Health Future understands and meets the needs of stakeholders through open communication and strategic planning.

Excellence/Quality
Health Future consistently adopts and exemplifies best practices while demonstrating continuous improvement in the delivery of superior products/services with an emphasis on a client-centered approach.

Innovation
Health Future provides an environment of empowerment for stakeholders that is flexible, encourages new ideas and thoughts, tolerates risks, and demonstrates a high regard for creativity and problem solving.

Sustainability
Health Future promotes business decisions and activities, congruent with our mission, in order to meet the current and future needs of our stakeholders.

As a participating member of our purchasing program, we can help you maximize your purchasing power on a wide variety of capitalized purchases including tools to manage construction and renovation projects, IT related hardware and system expenditures, diagnostic equipment and other healthcare related capital expenses. Related services can include budget assistance, quote review, technical consultation, life-cycle costing and ROI analysis.

As pressures grow to control the rising costs of healthcare there is an increased need to examine those devices, products and processes that are used in delivering care in high volume, high cost and medically complex care delivery models. It is important for us to identify and objectively evaluate emerging technologies and approaches that may have an impact on cost and, more importantly, improved outcomes for our patients.

How can costs associated with care delivery and costs surrounding PPIs be addressed in a manner that accommodates both clinical and financial influences?

• Local discounts have traditionally reflected the seller’s local market share, relationships with clinicians and the facility’s ability to commit to maintaining or changing market share to support national and regional contract requirements.

• The availability of scientific evidence is an essential component to addressing the appropriate identification of technologies as evolutionary or revolutionary in nature. Part of this assessment includes the ability to improve patient outcomes and maintain or lower overall healthcare costs throughout the lifespan of the patient. This evidence is essential to choosing appropriate devices and ongoing support available for those devices for each patient given their specific medical needs. Health Future has strategic partners that bring the collection of evidence forward including objective evaluation of comparable technologies and their proven efficacy.

• Collaboration across clinicians and members is established through development of task forces specific to the medical discipline or service utilizing the products and services to be contracted. Health Future staff and participating member representatives along with other strategic partners supporting this process approach the market fully aware of current pricing and scientific positions among the providers of these devices and services and leverages the combined experiences and spend of our members. This enables us to negotiate more strategic approaches to these unique markets and develop collaborative partnerships with chosen vendors resulting in increased value delivered to our patients.

As we focus on lowering our members’ overall cost of delivery of care we also look for opportunities to aggregate our members’ spend to obtain discounts on a wide variety of services. These purchased services may include medical related and/or administrative support. Examples of where we have worked together to lower our collective costs for services include temporary workforce management, property insurance, employee benefits, revenue cycle management, data mining and analysis as well as equipment maintenance, medical gases and various areas of consultative services. Members participating in our purchasing program have access to these contracts and the ability to join in the savings as applicable to their specific needs.