STAT October 5, 2021
A nonprofit forms to build an app marketplace
One of modern medicine’s biggest market failures is the lack of a common data language to enable hospitals to adopt promising apps. But a group of health systems is launching a nonprofit today to tackle that challenge. Dubbed Graphite Health, the venture will seek to build an App-Store-like marketplace for standardized software tools, and it will be modeled off a parallel company called Civica Rx to make it cheaper and easier for hospitals to buy generic drugs. Even if they are having success on the drug side, the effort faces plenty of competition in the digital health market. Casey has the full story.
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