[Devex unpacks intermediaries in the health market and highlights the Center for Health Market Innovations and its new report, Intermediaries: The Missing Link in Improving Mixed Market Health Systems?]
The health market is often populated with three players: the government, which heads up overall policy direction; and NGOs and private health care providers that deliver health services where they’re lacking or where there’s weak health infrastructure.
In this ecosystem, however, there’s another set of players whose role is less about directly providing health care, and more about ensuring health care services are available, that health care reaches different segments of the population, and that it is provided within a set of quality standards.
Who are these players?
The Center for Health Market Innovations, a platform providing information and analysis on innovative health programs and policies across the globe for the benefit of different actors such as implementers, funders and researchers, identified these players in a recent report as ‘intermediaries’ or those organizations that, in a nutshell, build and manage relationships between government, health care providers, vendors and patients to create better coordination, savings and continued access to care for the population.
