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The Blue Collar Infrastructure Play
How Savva reached 314,000 connected healthcare institutions without venture capital, by cutting every middleman out of the stack.
How it works
- 1Direct EHR integrations instead of Health Information Exchanges, which eliminates middleman API fees.
- 2Wearables pulled through Apple HealthKit instead of direct device APIs, which means one integration covers all devices.
- 3Free ingestion on both sides is what makes a ten-dollar price point survive.
- 4The lesson: infrastructure commoditizes slowly, but unit economics are destroyed instantly by middlemen.
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