Obstetrics and hospital birth. Medicalise the event that used to kill mothers.
It is a service someone performs.
It exists to relieve Carry and deliver a child safely. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Medical science and Hospital system. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: A hospital birth is a five-figure invoice. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
4 organisations in this map sell it, 3 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionObstetrics and hospital birth
- FrictionCarry and deliver a child safely
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inReproduction
- Rooted inSafety
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA Healthcare | $90B | public · HCA | hospitals, labor and delivery units, urgent care |
| Apollo Hospitals | $12B | public · APOLLOHOSP | hospitals, pharmacies, telehealth |
| Pediatrix Medical Group | $1.5B | public · MD | neonatal and maternal-fetal physicians |
| Kaiser Permanente | nonprofit | integrated health plan and hospitals |