Health Data Integration & Interoperability

19 confirmed failures

Funding Burned

$595.5M

Median Lifespan

15 years

Dominant Failure

Competitive Displacement

42% of cases

Period

1996 — 2023

Failure Pattern Distribution

Outspent by bigger competitors8 (42%)

Couldn't connect to existing systems4 (21%)

Couldn't prove the product worked3 (16%)

Multi-stakeholder approval bottleneck2 (11%)

Couldn't get paid by insurance1 (5%)

Product disrupted existing workflows1 (5%)

Curator's Note

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This section of the registry contains 19 healthcare Health Data Integration & Interoperability startups that shut down between 1996 and 2023, representing $595.5M in combined funding. The dominant failure pattern is Competitive Displacement (42% of cases). Integration Hell accounts for another 21%. These entries were coded using the Gioia three-level qualitative methodology. Inter-rater reliability: 0.82 (strong agreement). This note is auto-generated and will be replaced by editorial analysis.

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Based on 20 Health Data Integration & Interoperability failures in the corpus. Not your thesis.

KILLEDKill threshold 66%

Outspent by bigger competitors

A competitor with deeper pockets entered your space and is outspending you.

Precedents

Nant Health (HC-0125)
PatientsLikeMe (HC-0079) · 2019
MDxHealth (HC-0093) · 2023

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