Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2019
What is a ‘platform’ anyway?
This is the question 18 healthcare executives set out to answer during a roundtable session supported by athenahealth at the Becker’s Hospital Review 10th Annual Meeting in Chicago on April 2.
“I would argue that there are a lot of factors that go into the answer to this question, but at a minimum it boils down to something really fundamental: Platforms bring scale and speed to the matching of resources to their highest and best uses,” said Jessica Sweeney-Platt, executive director at athenahealth.
To bring this definition to life, Ms. Sweeney-Platt pointed to two brands in the hospitality industry: Airbnb and Hilton. Although they represent different models, both companies are fundamentally in the business of...