Reader's Choice: Our 10 Most Popular Market Scan Articles in 2025

Health care in 2025 was shaped by compounding pressures — and accelerating change. Hospitals and health systems navigated workforce shortages, rising cyber threats, volatile supply chains and continued experimentation by major retail and technology players seeking a foothold in care delivery. At the same time, advances in AI, digital health and automation moved from pilot to practice, reshaping how care is delivered and managed. Throughout the year, AHA’s Market Scan tracked these shifts, offering insight into the innovations, disruptions and strategic decisions defining the field. Below are the 10 most-read Market Scan articles of 2025, reflecting what mattered most to health care leaders this year. — Jennifer Parello, editor

4 Takeaways from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

As health care executives continue to reimagine and reshape their organizations to achieve financial sustainability, many are forging partnerships to achieve their goals. Some organizations are rewiring their strategies as they integrate with other health systems to serve their communities more effectively. Read More »

Behavioral Health Outpaces Primary Care in 2024

In 2024, behavioral health visits among commercially insured individuals in the United States surpassed primary care visits for the first time, according to an analysis published by Behavioral Health Business and based on data from Trilliant Health. The report found that behavioral health visits totaled 66.4 million in 2024. Read More »

Good News about Hospitals

With the many serious challenges facing hospitals and health systems these days, it can be easy to lose sight of the headlines about the many great things AHA members are doing. To recognize how U.S. hospitals are empowering people to live healthier, happier lives, the AHA has been focusing on "Telling the Hospital Story." Read More »

3 Takeaways from Amazon Health Services Reorganization

For all its demonstrated business and tech intellectual property and ability to capture consumer loyalty, Amazon has yet to achieve its goals in health care. That much was evident with the news of Amazon Health Services completing the restructuring of its operations into six units. Read More »

Early Disease Detection: 3 Tech Trends to Watch

Using artificial intelligence to aid in disease detection has been going on for some time now. Recent investment trends in AI startups indicate these applications may soon be deployed earlier in clinical workflows, helping patients engage with health systems before the diagnostic process begins and to flag diseases earlier. Read More »

The FDA Clears Apple Watch-Powered Platform for Monitoring Tonic-Clonic (Grand Mal) Seizures

In a significant step forward for wearable health tech, EpiWatch — a Johns Hopkins Medicine spinout — has received FDA 510(k) premarket clearance for its seizure detection platform that runs on the Apple Watch. Read More »

3 Ways Robotic Surgery Is Changing Health Care

Specialized uses illustrate the ever-expanding applications of robotic surgery platforms as health care providers continue to leverage the technology to reduce surgical complications, improve safety and shorten recovery times for patients. It's even reducing lengths of stay at some facilities. Read More »

5 Innovative Nurse-Led Models of Care to Explore

The American Academy of Nursing recently selected five innovative care models to be named as Edge Runners. Edge Runners are nurse-designed, nurse-led models of care that reduce cost, improve health care quality, advance community health and enhance consumer satisfaction. Read More »

Where Are Amazon, CVS and Walgreens Headed?

The forecasts of health care increasingly being delivered by large, privately held or publicly traded retail pharmacies and other companies have taken a detour. Many of these companies are now rethinking their health care strategies. As a result, some are significantly scaling back or exiting delivery of primary care services altogether. Read More »

New Survey: How Do Health Executives View AI?

Health care C-suite leaders see no shortage of potential for artificial intelligence to help the field advance, but their optimism remains restrained. How to safely implement AI, the ongoing need to monitor algorithms to ensure that they perform up to standards and the potential for misleading or biased AI outputs have kept health care executives cautious about the technology. Read More »