Healthcare Platform Blog December 8, 2021
In Part I, we profiled three recently formed, provider sponsored platforms: Truveta, Xealth, and Graphite Health. These platforms are backed by multiple health systems (ranging from 3 to 20) and have ambitious plans for national expansion.
In Part II, we comment on the “why” — describing market forces leading to provider sponsored collaborative platforms. We then discuss some provider platform challenges.
Why are Providers Collaborating in Platform Development?
There are diverse reasons why provider platform collaboration makes sense.
Lack of Integration and Interoperability Across Vendors. Local care providers are approached by hundreds of vendors offering point solutions. They struggle with the fragmented, non-standardized and often proprietary nature of the current health technology vendor market. This manifests in unnecessary complexity and...