In August 2020, we helped launch CIC Health, an online marketplace aimed at making it easy for organizations of all sizes in need of Covid-19 tests to connect with existing and potential suppliers across the country. Its ambition was to aggregate buyers of tests who needed to test large numbers of people so they could interact in person without triggering outbreaks and provide an easier onramp for labs to bring their scale to market by simplifying flows of information, funds, and materials.
We Built an Online Marketplace for Covid-19 Testing
Here’s what we learned about rapid organizational change.
December 14, 2020
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Summary.
With the aim of making Covid-19 testing much more available, a coalition launched an online marketplace where organizations that needed testing and existing and potential suppliers of testing could find each other. An earlier article described the idea that led to the marketplace. This piece discusses the lessons learned as it launched and scaled up.