As is our custom every month, we compile our Top 10 most read posts that deserve a second read. This list takes those lists just one step further. With more than 19,820 combined reads, these are the 10 most read articles of 2025.
Thank you to all these authors that have shared their thoughts with us and our readers.
From Gut Instinct to Data-Driven Psychiatric Care: Why It’s Time for a Tech Overhaul
By Jim Szyperski, CEO, Acuity Behavioral Health
LinkedIn:Â Jim Szyperski
Despite growing attention to mental health, inpatient psychiatric care remains a neglected and the least digitized sector of healthcare. While hospitals have made enormous strides in optimizing emergency departments, operating rooms, and ICUs with real-time data, the same cannot be said for behavioral health units. Here, critical operations decisions still rely on clinician intuition over hard data, leaving staff stretched thin, patients without consistent care, and hospitals at odds with value-based care standards. This is a clinical problem careening towards system failure. Continue reading…
Promotions Displayed During EHR Login are not POC Messages
By Harshit Jain MD, Founder & Global CEO, Doceree
LinkedIn:Â Harshit Jain
Healthcare and pharmaceutical marketing has undergone a major churn over the past few years. Largely due to the evolution in point-of-care messaging, we’ve seen interactions between healthcare providers, patients, pharma brands and their marketing representatives become more fruitful for everyone involved. Backed by the rapid digitization of POC platforms, HCPs are now spending considerably more time than before switching between Electronic Health Record, e-Prescribing and telehealth solutions in their quest to deliver value-based care to patients. Continue reading…
Leveraging Technology for More Impactful Member Engagement
By Cindy Jordan, CEO and Co-Founder, Pyx Health
LinkedIn:Â Cindy Jordan
With the help of technology, health plans now have a plethora of ways to interact with their members outside of the traditional in-person doctors’ visits, whether it’s through text messages, apps, e-mail, or web-based platforms. Unfortunately, as the myriad of communication channels expand, the valuable impact of health plans’ interactions with members has become diluted. Continue reading…
Why Accreditation Matters: Ensuring Integrity and Building Trust in Healthcare
By Lee Barrett, Commission Executive Director, DirectTrust
LinkedIn:Â Lee Barrett
Trust serves as the cornerstone of relationships in the healthcare sector, connecting organizations with patients, providers, and business partners. Achieving and maintaining trust requires healthcare entities to demonstrate their commitment to the highest standards of security, privacy, and operational excellence. One critical way to showcase this dedication is through independent, third-party accreditation. By pursuing accreditation, healthcare organizations send a powerful message that they prioritize the protection of sensitive data and compliance with industry best practices. Continue reading…
Closing the Diagnosis Gap for Sleep Apnea with Wearables
By R. Kirk Huntsman, Chairman & CEO, Vivos Therapeutics
LinkedIn:Â R. Kirk Huntsman
The rise of sleep tech is set to disrupt traditional sleep diagnostics, reshaping how we detect and manage sleep disorders. Valued at $62.54 billion in 2023, the wearable tech market is expected to triple by 2032, driven by a health-conscious consumer base. Once basic fitness trackers, wearables now feature advanced tools like sleep monitoring and stress detection. This shift is further fueled by the growing demand for preventive care and telehealth-driven remote monitoring. Continue reading…
Understanding the Importance of NCQA Data Aggregator Validation
By Nathan Elliott, Director of Professional Services, J2 Interactive
LinkedIn:Â C. Nathan Elliott
NCQA provides a nationally recognized standard for validating an organization’s ability to collect, aggregate, and standardize healthcare data for quality measurement and reporting, such as Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS). It represents more than 72% of the U.S. population. Data Aggregator Validation enables HIEs to save payers significant amounts of time and effort conducting their own primary source verification of patient data. For HIEs, achieving this validation can open doors to partnerships with health plans, providers, and other stakeholders who require data quality assurance. Continue reading…
7 Best Practices for Implementing Penetration Testing in Healthcare
By Zac Amos, Features Editor, ReHack
LinkedIn:Â Zachary Amos
Healthcare IT leaders already understand that attackers have them in their sights, but the gulf between knowing and acting remains wide. Penetration testing, or pen testing, closes that gap by providing proof of how systems can be breached and data exfiltrated. In 2024, an average of 61 significant healthcare data breaches occurred every month, and in March 2025, 1,754,097 people had their private health information stolen, exposed or disclosed without authorization due to data breaches. Continue reading…
What Should You be Doing with Protected Health Information (PHI)?
By Mat Buttrey, Senior Product Manager & Strategic Lead – Healthcare, PaperCut
LinkedIn:Â Matthew Buttrey
In today’s digital era, healthcare organizations handle vast amounts of Protected Health Information (PHI). But with more focus than ever on safeguarding patient data, one major compliance risk often flies under the radar: printing. While enormous resources are committed to securing electronic systems, a single document left on a printer tray can lead to data breaches, HIPAA violations, and hefty fines. Despite the digital transformation of healthcare, paper isn’t going anywhere soon. Continue reading…
Fusing the Data Divide in Long-Term Care: Elevating Patient Outcomes Through Interoperability
By Ashay Thakur, VP of Data Strategy, Cedar Gate Technologies
LinkedIn:Â Ashay Thakur
Data interoperability remains one of the biggest hurdles to efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality healthcare. That is especially true for long-term care (LTC) facilities, where patients often reside for extended periods, sometimes for the remainder of their lives or until they transition to hospice care. However, many LTC facilities still face challenges that complicate their ability to enhance care quality while lowering costs, which are key goals of value-based care (VBC) programs. Continue reading…
The Physicians Make Decisions Act is AI Regulation Done Right
By Dr. Tim Wetherill, Chief Clinical Officer, Machinify
LinkedIn:Â Tim Wetherill MD FACS
The last decade has seen AI’s escalating impact on a variety of industries take shape, and perhaps no vertical has been impacted as much as healthcare. AI has contributed to game-changing innovations reshaping how care is documented and delivered, but it’s also sparked fierce debates about where AI belongs, and where it doesn’t. Introduced last fall, the “Physicians Make Decisions Act” (PMDA) has come front and center in some of these conversations, so it’s important those in the industry understand what it is, who it could impact, and its implications for the future of AI in healthcare. Continue reading…