Healthcare news from trade publications — one filter, 35+ sources
Healthcare news spans hospital operations, payer strategy, pharma and biotech news, health IT, policy news, and medical devices. A keyword search alone pulls lifestyle blogs, press releases, and unrelated mentions. A filter news by source approach scopes results to trusted news sources you actually want in a filtered news feed.
Perigon's healthcareTradePublications source group is a ready-made publisher list for that job: 36 domains covering trade publication news across the full vertical. Add one parameter to the news API — sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications — and every Articles, Headlines, or Stories search runs only against those outlets.
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What is the healthcareTradePublications source group?
Display name: Healthcare Trade Publications
Description: Healthcare-focused sources covering pharma, biotech, policy, hospitals, and medical devices.
Instead of hand-picking domains on every query, sourceGroup turns a curated bundle into a reusable filter — the same pattern as sourceGroup=top100, but scoped to vertical news and industry news sources for healthcare.
Core U.S. trade publications (12 domains)
| Domain | Publication | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| modernhealthcare.com | Modern Healthcare | Hospitals, policy, finance, executives |
| beckershospitalreview.com | Becker's Hospital Review | Hospital operations, leadership |
| fiercehealthcare.com | Fierce Healthcare | Business, insurers, digital health |
| healthcaredive.com | Healthcare Dive | Policy, providers, industry trends |
| healthcareitnews.com | Healthcare IT News | EHR, AI, cybersecurity, interoperability |
| statnews.com | STAT | Biotech, pharma, medical research |
| medpagetoday.com | MedPage Today | Clinical research, physician news |
| managedhealthcareexecutive.com | Managed Healthcare Executive | Managed care, PBMs, payers |
| medcitynews.com | MedCity News | Health tech and startups |
| healthaffairs.org | Health Affairs | Policy research |
| healthleadersmedia.com | Health Leaders Media | Executive strategy, finance |
| healthtechmagazine.net | HealthTech Magazine | Hospital IT infrastructure |
Pharma, biotech, and life sciences (10 domains)
| Domain | Focus |
|---|---|
| genengnews.com | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |
| european-biotechnology.com | European biotech industry |
| biotechniques.com | Life science methods and research tools |
| insideprecisionmedicine.com | Precision medicine |
| crisprmedicinenews.com | CRISPR and gene editing |
| bionity.com | Pharma and biotech (international) |
| pharmaphorum.com | Pharma industry commentary |
| contractpharma.com | Contract manufacturing and CDMO |
| analytica-world.com | Analytical science and lab industry |
| press.asimov.com | Biotech and synthetic biology |
Digital health, policy, international, and adjacent sources (14 domains)
| Domain | Focus |
|---|---|
| digitalhealthnews.com | Digital health industry |
| healthday.com | Clinical and consumer health syndication |
| who.int | World Health Organization — global policy |
| ncpa.org | National Community Pharmacists Association |
| bwhealthcareworld.com | India healthcare business |
| health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | India healthcare business (Economic Times) |
| pharmaceuticals.einnews.com | Pharma news aggregation |
| beckersdental.com | Dental practice and DSO industry |
| healthimpactnews.com | Advocacy health news |
| parentherald.com | Parenting and family health |
| med.stanford.edu | Stanford Medicine newsroom |
| uofmhealth.org | University of Michigan Health |
| newsroom.uw.edu | University of Washington medicine news |
| medangel.org | Medical philanthropy and health nonprofit news |
Together these domains cover the lanes most teams need for healthcare news monitoring — not just the eight names AI assistants typically suggest.
Add sourceGroup to your news API search
The sourceGroup parameter works on the Articles API (/v1/all), Headlines API (/v1/headlines), and Stories API (/v1/stories/all). Pass the group name exactly as registered:
GET https://api.perigon.io/v1/all?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications&sortBy=addDate&size=25
That single line replaces a long source= whitelist and keeps your healthcare news feed consistent across apps, alerts, and dashboards.
For headline-only products:
GET https://api.perigon.io/v1/headlines?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications&sortBy=addDate
For story tracking instead of article floods — useful when FDA decisions or hospital mergers reprint across dozens of trade pubs:
GET https://api.perigon.io/v1/stories/all?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications&topic=Health&sortBy=addDate
The Stories API returns clustered narratives with story velocity, summaries, and related articles — so breaking news monitoring fires on storylines, not every wire reprint. See the Stories API guide for clusterId and expandArticles.
Why a source group beats a static "top 8" list
Ask GPT, Claude, or Gemini for top healthcare news outlets and each returns eight familiar names — but they disagree on half the list. All three agree on five core pubs (Modern Healthcare, Becker's Hospital Review, Fierce Healthcare, Healthcare Dive, Healthcare IT News). None surface the full pharma, biotech, international, or device trade depth in healthcareTradePublications.
| Dimension | Typical AI "top 8" | healthcareTradePublications (36) |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. hospital/business core | Strong | Strong + extended |
| Payer / managed care | Sometimes | ✓ |
| Biotech / pharma depth | STAT at most | 10+ dedicated sources |
| Health IT / digital | Partial | HITN, HealthTech, MedCity, digitalhealthnews |
| Policy / research | Sometimes | Health Affairs + WHO |
| International | Rarely | India, EU biotech |
| Medical devices / lab | Rarely | analytica-world, contractpharma |
A source group solves that curation problem once. Your news API calls stay the same; you swap or extend groups without rewriting queries.
Healthcare news monitoring workflow
A typical media monitoring stack layers filters in this order:
| Step | What it does | Parameter |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Scope publishers | Lock to trade publications | sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications |
| 2. Match topics | Filter news by topic or keyword |
q, topic, companyDomain
|
| 3. Time window | Filter news by date for digests |
from, to, addDateFrom
|
| 4. Track narratives | Story tracking across reprints | Stories API + same sourceGroup
|
| 5. Brief leadership | News briefing from filtered corpus | Search Summarizer on the result set |
Poll the Articles API with sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications and addDateFrom set to your last checkpoint for real-time news alerts. Layer the Health taxonomy branch for news classification — see the news taxonomy guide.
When the feed is scoped but volume is still high, pass matches into Perigon's Search Summarizer for a grounded AI news summary. The briefing stays tethered to the news articles your sourceGroup filter selected.
Try it: Search Summarizer sandbox · Search Summarizer API reference
FAQ
What is healthcareTradePublications?
A Perigon source group containing 36 healthcare trade publication domains — hospitals, payers, pharma, biotech, policy, health IT, medical devices, and selected international outlets. Pass sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications on the news API to scope searches to that bundle.
How do I filter healthcare news to trade publications only?
Add sourceGroup=healthcareTradePublications to any Articles, Headlines, or Stories API request. This is filter news by source at the publisher-bundle level — more reliable than keyword-only search for healthcare news from industry news sources.
Can I combine sourceGroup with keywords and dates?
Yes. sourceGroup sets the publisher boundary; add q, topic, companyDomain, from, to, and addDateFrom to narrow within the group. You can also use excludeSource to drop individual domains from an otherwise correct bundle.
How is this different from listing domains in source=?
sourceGroup is a maintained, reusable publisher list. You do not paste 36 domains into every query, and Perigon can update the group without changing your integration. For a custom subset, create a private source group and pass your group name the same way.
What are the best sources inside the group for healthcare news?
For U.S. business coverage: Modern Healthcare, Becker's Hospital Review, Fierce Healthcare, Healthcare Dive, and Healthcare IT News. For biotech and pharma: STAT and GEN. For policy: Health Affairs and WHO. The full group covers all lanes in one filter.
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