Platform Research

Access our in-depth research and resources to scale your platform strategy and build a market dominant business

Develop and deepen your network effects investment strategy, gain novel insights on trends in digital health, and access stage-by-stage guidance on how to build a dominant platform business in healthcare.

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2024 Investor Report

Summit Health Advisors' Digital Health Investor Report sheds light on the most attractive platform markets in healthcare to help investors develop and deepen their network effects investment strategy.

In this report:

  • Novel data and analysis into the top healthcare platform markets

  • Investment framework to objectively evaluate platform companies based on the power of their network effects

  • Healthcare interaction map to help identify new areas for platform investment 

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2024 Platforms Report

Summit Health Advisors’ 2024 State of Healthcare Platforms Report is the annual, trusted source for analysis, trends and insight into the digital health platform landscape.

In this report:

  • Novel insights, trends and analysis on digital health platform investments and performance over the last year - in private and public markets. 

  • In-depth case studies and firsthand perspectives from today’s leading platform founders and investors about their challenges and successes.

  • The biggest platform companies, deals and investors of the year, and what this means for the future of healthcare.

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Platform Guidebook

Summit Health Advisors’ Guidebook for Digital Health Startups is an in-depth, stage-by-stage playbook on how to build a dominant platform business in healthcare. 

This guidebook will help digital health startups:

  • Understand and apply platform best practices and strategies to build powerful network effects in healthcare 

  • Implement proven platform launch and scale tactics to succeed at all stages of growth, from the “cold start” to new market expansion 

  • Achieve accelerated business growth and outsized financial returns by building a dominant, world-class platform in healthcare

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2023 Platforms Report

Summit Health Advisors’ 2024 State of Healthcare Platforms Report is the annual, trusted source for analysis, trends and insight into the digital health platform landscape

This report is for:

  • Digital health startups using platform business strategies (or who want to use them but aren’t sure how)

  • Investors looking for scalable, efficient and defensible opportunities to deploy capital

  • Corporate leaders seeking to leverage platform concepts
    (e.g., EHRs)

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