Frequently Asked Questions

CHMI uses a multi-faceted approach to create connections leading to the scale up, replication, or improvement of successful models of health market innovations.

Working through Regional Partners as well as Global Collaborators, CHMI uses five primary approaches to help profiled programs grow and improve on their work:

1. Matchmaking innovators with Policymakers to initiate more cooperation between the public and private healthcare sectors;
2. Improving program performance through practitioner-to-practitioner learning for High Potential Business Models;
3. Connecting practitioners to each other to create operational, funding or information-sharing partnerships;
4. Connecting programs with funding opportunities by serving as a pipeline for Investors & Accelerators; and,
5. Boosting visibility globally for programs profiled on CHMI and providing access to Competitions & Mentors.

Through all these activities, CHMI is connecting promising programs with interested and relevant stakeholders who can help them scale-up, replicate, or improve on their model. In this way, CHMI helps make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to the world’s poor.

CHMI does not implement, manage, or fund any health programs. Rather, CHMI seeks to create relationships between program managers, donors, investors, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders in health systems to enable the expansion and replication of promising programs.

Since our launch in 2010, CHMI has worked with partner organizations in more than 20 countries around the world to identify innovative healthcare programs, study promising practices, and connect innovators to others who can help them scale up, replicate, or improve on their model. In 2013, CHMI began working with “Regional Partners” in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Kenya, and other countries in East and Southern Africa.

These organizations represent CHMI in their country and region, carrying out a range of activities such as convening innovators with high-potential business models, matchmaking innovators with policymakers to initiate cooperation between the public and private sectors, and building relationships between innovators and donors, investors, and others that can help them grow and scale-up their activities.

CHMI profiles five distinct categories of Health Market Innovations, or Program Types, which can all play a role in making health markets work better. These are Organizing Delivery, Financing Care, Regulating Performance, Changing Behaviors and Enhancing Processes. See CHMI Definitions to learn more about Health Market Innovations.

Although CHMI has its own criteria for judging which programs should be included in the database, “innovation” can depend on where you sit, since what may be new in one setting is well established in another. CHMI is ultimately interested in representing programs that use economic levers to improve their health marketplaces, so there is some flexibility in applying these criteria to interesting programs.

You can now get updates on any CHMI-profiled program profile sent to your email on a regular basis (weekly, daily, or "as soon as possible").

When viewing any program profile, such as Operation ASHA, click on the pink button at right that says "Follow." 

Then, any time the profile is updated, you will receive an email detailing what has been changed, for example, a change in the reported "Number of facilities/outlets," "Funders," "Reported Results" or other changes. 

If you would like change the frequency of email updates, log in, then click on "Hello [Your name]" at the upper right of the profile. Click on the Subscriptions Tab, navigate to Settings, Preferences, then Send Interval to select the right frequency of updates for you. 

Topic pages provide an aggregated view of all content on popular themes. These pages provide the latest list of related program profiles, blogs, and documents. The pages also offer interactive maps and graphs allowing visitors to assess, at a glance, the landscape of information available on these themes. Currently, CHMI offers "windows" into our data on the following topics:

• Maternal, newborn, and child health,
• Tuberculosis
• Malaria, and other vector-borne diseases
• Informal providers
• Reported Results
• India
• The Philippines

We will be launching new Topic pages periodically based on demand.

Subscribe to updates on Topics

When viewing any Topic page, click the pink "Follow" button at the right side of the page to get updates on new content tagged in this category sent to your email inbox.  As with subscriptions to program profiles, you can customize the frequency of updates sent to your email by modifying your Subscriptions preferences in your user account. See details above. 

Registration for CHMI is free and easy. Simply select “join” at the top of the webpage and complete a short profile. Once registered, users are able to take advantage of the following features:

• Submit a program profile to add an innovative program to the CHMI database.
• Download the CHMI dataset, in Excel format, to do your own analysis.
• Contact program managers to ask questions or delve deeper into programmatic details not yet publically available.
• Follow program or Topics to receive email alerts about news and updates.