It's Time To Build: Healthtech Infrastructure

It's Time To Build: Healthtech Infrastructure 🛠️ ! In the “Maslow's hierarchy” of the healthcare industry’s needs, the infrastructure layer is the foundational workhorse of the system. Numerous unfortunate infra outages in recent years have shed light on the scale and fragility of some of the core, but often legacy, infrastructure systems on which the healthcare industry relies, but that need serious upgrades. Emerging business models and novel care delivery models also represent areas where infrastructure doesn’t even exist yet.

Many of the largest and most important companies in the history of healthcare technology and services have been infrastructure companies, and they represent some of the potentially strongest, highest-quality business models.

For builders, opportunities exist to either:
a) massively upgrade existing areas of the infrastructure stack, or
b) build de novo utilities and backend systems in emerging areas of the market where infrastructure doesn't yet exist.

Read our blog post here: a call for healthtech infra builders to help upgrade the underpinnings of our current healthcare system, and build de novo infrastructure in emerging areas of care delivery and payments: https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build-healthtech-infrastructure/ (note the Healthtech Infra Canon at the bottom for some of our Infra greatest hit blogs and podcasts)