Happy Tuesday, Hospitalogists!

This past year, I published 113 newsletters, 31 resources, and 16 interviews across the Hospitalogy Network.

Chances are you haven’t read/watched all of them (if you have, please reach out I owe you some Hospitalogy golf balls), but over the past 12 months there were a few gems that got some extra love.

So, today I’m highlighting my top 10 most read newsletters and member resources of 2025 (including some premium assets that I’ve made free to read for the next week).

From the scribe wars to healthcare consumerism, consider this your 1st week of January refresher course on what the heck happened in healthcare last year.

BIG HEALTHCARE STORIES

An oldie, but a goodie. Optum subsidiary Advisory Board’s overview of top considerations for hospitals and health systems.

A dive into the world of health system innovation: Who’s working with whom? Who is partnering in the ecosystem? What strategic areas are they targeting for health system transformation?

Mark my words, 2026 will be the year of the consumer. But the die was cast long before with the consumer healthcare matchup of the century: Amazon vs. CVS.

AKA, that picture of Cuban high-fiving a unicorn.

I had the privilege of sitting down with Pete McCanna, CEO of Baylor Scott & White and Michael Sanborn, Chief Growth Officer, for a behind-the-scenes look at one of 2025’s more notable health system joint ventures. 

Courtesy of my collaboration with THE Rik Renard, Head of Strategy & Product at Sword Intelligence. AI scribe valuations were never about transcription quality. No, as we’ve mentioned, the future state of ambient sits with workflow infiltration.

When it comes to health system strategy, Tenet is doing everything right. Here's a robust breakdown drilling into everything that happened at the large for-profit, highly profitable publicly traded hospital operator in Q2 2025. Analysis including earnings tearsheet, visuals, and some narrative from yours truly.

I make a lot of content and it follows that I do a ton of analysis. Here's a deck and video on how I leverage AI to write Hospitalogy and analyze publicly traded healthcare companies, with specific examples.

An overview of key points from the 2026 OPPS Final Rule—a rule which carries particular weight. CMS finalized a sweeping set of changes that collectively represent the most aggressive site-of-service migration policy in years. The theme is unmistakable: CMS wants procedures moving downstream, and they want pricing transparency to follow.

A look under the hood to see how data-based population health management can drive performance in value-based care and a fun convo with my friends at The Garage.

TOP READS & RESOURCES

My favorite reads & resources from the week

• If you were in a holiday fugue state, you may have missed two fun reads… healthcare predictions for 2026. Don’t worry, here they are: My predictions and your predictions.

• Population health leaders: Unidentified behavioral health needs undermine your quality measure performance. You can solve this with EHR-embedded patient screening, automatic risk triage, and smart referral management.*

• Getting a lot of great feedback on this one: One Oncology’s Acquisition… Before the Acquisition.

*This read is brought to you by one of my brand partners who help make this newsletter possible!

Hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane (and hang in there this week)! Thanks for reading.

- Blake (and Jack)

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