Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2019
Staff

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...

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