Technology Capabilities PATH's on-site laboratory. Technologies can prevent disease, save lives, reduce suffering, cut costs, and provide more equitable distribution of limited health care services. To achieve these ends, technologies must be appropriate, available, affordable, and acceptable. In the developed world, technologies are readily available through well established market systems. In developing countries, however, market mechanisms cannot be relied on to meet health care needs.
Resources are limited, markets disorganized, and needs and products often ill-defined.
The public sector alone is not able to stimulate the private sector to provide appropriate technologies for these poor populations. As a nonprofit, third party entity, PATH plays a critical role in effectively linking the public and private sectors, PATH provides a comprehensive array of technology-related services and innovative solutions to health care problems. Widespread and effective use of technologies. Sustainable systems of supply and support. Global standards of safety and quality.