cooperates, in a spirit of partnership, with all relevant groups of
stakeholders of international health care systems. These include

• Patients (and their organizations, such as advocacy groups)
  
  
• Payers (such as sick funds)
  
  
• Physicians (and specialist associations)
  
  
• Providers of medical services (other than physicians - e.g., hospitals)
  
  
• Pharmacists (and their professional organizations)
  as well as the
  
  
• Pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device industries
  
  

  is associated with the University of Applied Economic Sciences, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, through a formal cooperation agreement.