The healthcare industry can benefit from adopting platform thinking, which involves integrating multiple applications and services into a seamless digital experience for patients and providers. Digital platforms provide a single point of entry, leveraging an organization's technology and data to deliver new products and services. Platform thinking requires a platform perspective, which differentiates organizations from competitors by integrating unique applications and services into digital platforms. Digital platforms bring complexities such as stitching together data and functionality across siloed sources in real-time, requiring architectures that free developers from underlying application landscape complexities. An Operational Data Layer (ODL) is critical to support digital platforms, providing a system of record for new features and an integration layer between existing systems and third-party services. A MongoDB ODL serves as the best technology to underpin digital platforms and ecosystems due to its inherent flexibility and ability to seamlessly integrate complex data from various sources in real-time.