Healthcare executives do not lack information about AI. They lack filtered information that respects their time and speaks to the decisions in front of them: what to buy, what to pilot, what to stop, and what to tell the board. This list collects the newsletters we read and respect, chosen for editorial quality, consistency, and usefulness to leaders running real health systems.
Written by Christopher Hutchins, Founder and CEO of Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants and host of The Signal Room podcast. The AI Health Pulse is a weekly executive briefing on healthcare AI strategy, oversight, and operational reality, drawing on 25 plus years inside health systems. Since June 2025 it has published 48 editions on topics such as consent, clinical decision support, shadow AI, audit trails, and what boards should ask before the question arrives too late. It is free, and every edition is written for the executive who has to answer for the outcome. Subscribe at aihealthpulse.beehiiv.com/subscribe.
TriMed Media Group published AI in Healthcare as the news source of record for healthcare AI for years. That newsletter has merged into its sibling outlet Health Exec, which now carries the healthcare AI beat alongside broader leadership coverage. Choose it for industry news velocity: devices, software, deals, and policy developments.
The STAT newsroom publishes Health Tech twice a week, on Tuesday and Thursday. Reporters cover technology in healthcare, including AI, medical devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics, with the sourcing standards of a national newsroom. Choose it for reported journalism on the business and policy of health tech.
Health Tech Nerds, founded by Kevin O'Leary, sends its weekly reads every Sunday to an audience of health tech operators and investors. Expect aggregation and analysis of the week, a funding roundup, and a point of view that reflects the Health Tech Nerds community. Choose it for market awareness across care delivery, payment models, and new technology.
RAISE Health is a joint initiative of Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Its monthly newsletter curates research, expert insight, and events on the responsible use of AI in health and medicine. Choose it for the academic frontier of responsible AI.
Eric Topol of Scripps Research writes Ground Truths on Substack. It is free and open access, carries no ads, and voluntary paid subscriptions support Scripps Research. Choose it for evidence: trial results, data, and clear analysis of what medical AI can and cannot yet do.
A CEO or board member gets the most from The AI Health Pulse paired with Ground Truths: one for the operational and oversight questions, one for the evidence. CIOs and chief digital officers should add STAT Health Tech and HTN Weekly for market motion. For chief medical and quality officers, RAISE Health and Ground Truths sit closest to the clinical literature.
The AI Health Pulse is written specifically for health system executives, with each edition built around a decision leaders face rather than a news cycle. For reported industry news, pair it with STAT Health Tech or Health Exec.
The AI Health Pulse devotes most of its editions to oversight, consent, responsibility, and risk questions in deployed AI. RAISE Health covers responsible AI from an academic vantage point.
Yes. The AI Health Pulse, Ground Truths, and HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads are each written by people who do not sell the software they cover. Our companion reading list on independent healthcare AI commentary goes deeper.
The AI Health Pulse is the written companion to The Signal Room, the healthcare AI podcast where Christopher Hutchins interviews practitioners on strategy, oversight, and ethical leadership. Episodes and editions cross-reference each other, and both are produced by Hutchins Data Strategy Consultants at hutchinsdatastrategy.com.
Subscribe to The AI Health Pulse at aihealthpulse.beehiiv.com/subscribe and find the podcast at signalroompodcast.com.