AI dominated the conversation, taking half of the most read HealthLeaders stories over the past year. But healthcare leaders were also interested in telehealth, RPM and the emerging Food is Medicine movement. AI may have grabbed the majority of the headlines in the innovation and technology space in 2025, but a review of the top stories of the past year in HealthLeaders finds that healthcare executives were interested in a variety of issues. The ongoing saga of COVID-era CMS waivers for telehealth and the Hospital at Home strategy made the list – and will probably continue to do so as Congress debates whether to extend those freedoms. The Food is Medicine movement had its moment as well, as did remote patient monitoring reimbursement and Epic’s annual user’s meeting. But the top story focused on Kaiser Permanente’s decision to settle a class action lawsuit over data captured by auto-tracking technology. The story apparently hit a nerve with healthcare executives across the country who use similar tactics to understand who’s accessing their websites, portals and apps. And, of course, there’s AI. Half of the top 10 stories accessed by HealthLeaders readers in 2025 focused on the industry’s adoption of AI. Expect that topic to top the charts in 2026 as well as outcomes and governance continue to demand attention. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(“dfp-ad-hl_native1”); }); Here’s the list of the top 2025 HealthLeaders stories in innovation and technology. Kaiser Permanente to Pay $46M for Patient Data Breach. The massive, California-based healthcare network decided in…
