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Indonesia’s Journey Toward Strategic Health Purchasing: Challenges and Opportunities
Strategic Purchasing (SP) in healthcare refers to a purchasing system that efficiently addresses ‘what’ to buy, ‘how’ to buy, and ‘from whom’ to buy to achieve the best possible health outcomes. This can include the purchasing of healthcare services, equipment, medicines, healthcare support services, and more. Through strategic purchasing,...
Launch of the Strategic Health Purchasing Registry
ASEAN health systems have been hit hard by COVID-19 – especially countries with already-constrained resource bases. Even before the pandemic, Lao PDR and Myanmar spent less than USD 100 per person a year on healthcare; Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia spent less than 200. Southeast Asia also has high out-of-pocket (OOP) spending...