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Welcome to Healthcare Markets & Technology
This newsletter covers the business, policy, and technology forces reshaping the U.S. healthcare system — written for investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who need to stay ahead of the curve.
We publish 5–7 times per week across eight topic areas. With 521 articles in the archive, here is how to find exactly what you are looking for.
📚 The Knowledge Base — Your Best Starting Point
The fastest way to explore the full archive is the Healthcare Markets & Technology Knowledge Base:
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Filter by section — Prior Auth & Interoperability, Medicare & Payer Strategy, Clinical AI & Patient Care, AI Strategy, Health Tech Infrastructure, Health Tech Investing, Digital Health & Startups, Health Policy & Regulation
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Explore topic tags — 40+ tags including Medicare Advantage, prior authorization, digital health, AI diagnostics, value-based care, and more
What We Cover
The newsletter is organized into eight sections. Here is a quick guide to each:
Prior Auth & Interoperability — CMS rulemaking, FHIR APIs, payer-provider data exchange, and the regulatory battle over prior authorization. 93 articles.
Medicare & Payer Strategy — Medicare Advantage, value-based care models, ACO REACH, CMMI innovation, and commercial payer strategy. 109 articles.
Clinical AI & Patient Care — AI diagnostics, clinical decision support, ambient documentation, and the deployment of AI at the point of care. 110 articles.
AI Strategy, Market & Investment — The business of AI in healthcare: market sizing, M&A, competitive dynamics, and enterprise adoption. 76 articles.
Health Tech Infrastructure & Ops — EHR systems, revenue cycle management, cloud infrastructure, and the operational backbone of health tech. 59 articles.
Health Tech Investing & Venture Capital — Venture funding trends, notable deals, investor theses, and the startup ecosystem. 30 articles.
Digital Health & Startups — Consumer health, telehealth, digital therapeutics, and emerging startup categories. 23 articles.
Health Policy & Regulation — FDA, CMS, Congress, and the regulatory environment shaping healthcare markets. 21 articles.
Free vs. Subscriber Content
Approximately half the archive is free. Subscriber-only articles are the longer, more data-intensive deep dives — market analyses, investment frameworks, and regulatory breakdowns that take 30–60 minutes to read. Free articles cover the same topics at a higher level.
You can filter by access level in the Knowledge Base to see exactly what is available to you.
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