Healthcare Platform Blog July 19, 2022
Vince Kuraitis and Randy Williams

We were honored to give the keynote presentation — “Healthcare Platform Megatrends” — at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy event: “The Platform Revolution Comes to Healthcare“.

Here’s a brief summary:

Digital platforms are powerful. 7 of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are powered by platforms.

But…healthcare is late. Today in healthcare digital platforms are understood mostly as a technology construct. That’s not wrong, but it is severely limiting.

Tomorrow, platforms will be understood as central to operational and business strategy. Healthcare is just discovering network effects —the single biggest differentiator in platform success.

Platforms and Network Effects 101

  • Traditional business models are linear “pipelines”.
  • Platforms enable producers and users to exchange different types of...

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