Healthcare Platform Blog November 21, 2022
Vince Kuraitis

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The New Rules of Healthcare Platforms

Platform businesses scale differently than traditional businesses. Platforms scale through network effects.

In the previous post, we introduced and described a widely used metaphor: pipes vs. platforms.

  • Traditional businesses are pipes. Their value chains are linear. Value is added at sequential stages before a final product or service is delivered to consumers at the end of the pipeline.
  • Platforms do not produce goods or services themselves—they make connections among stakeholders and facilitate value exchange among those stakeholders. Value is created outside the platform.

Both pipeline businesses and platform businesses strive to achieve scale—but the type of scale they strive for is vastly...

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