Digital Health Trends (November 2025)
Enterprise EHR Foundation
HIT professional services firms like Impact Advisors, Huron, Nordic, and Chartis are highlighted by KLAS Research as helping health systems with EHR optimization, cybersecurity, and AI strategy and governance. Also notable this month is a list of 30 consistent high performing vendors in healthcare software and services with top ratings over the last three years.
Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence
Real-world data (RWD) is up this month with an analysis of the segment highlighting 12 competitors, by Seth Joseph, Managing Director of Summit Health Advisors. Digital Pathology is also up this month, with Amazon Web Services announcing a cloud architecture that enables integration with AI in an end-to-end model that is agnostic to marketplace solutions.
Consumer Health and Technology
Wearables are up this month with a new study of smartwatches that track Afib finding that the devices “possess excellent diagnostic accuracy.” Meanwhile, a new category of invisible diagnostics is emerging: ear-worn wearables. Also up this month are patient-facing AI agents, with two firms, Hippocratic AI and Tala Health, each scoring $100m+ funding rounds and joining the unicorn club.
Stakeholders
Eli Lilly is up this month, as the booming market for weight-loss drugs propelled the company to become the first pharma to hit $1 trillion in market cap, joining the ranks of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. Emerging pharma companies—those with R&D spending less than $200 million and revenues less than $500 million a year—are also up this month, with a report from IQVIA calling them the “engines of progress in the health system.”