Editorial Guidelines

HealthTechCheck is committed to providing trustworthy, accurate, and useful information about health technology products and services. These guidelines describe how we approach our editorial work — including how we research and evaluate products, how we handle conflicts of interest, and what readers should know about our coverage decisions.

Our Editorial Mission

Our goal is to help readers make better-informed decisions about health technology — whether they are evaluating a product for personal use, caregiving, clinical workflows, patient populations, or organizational purchasing.

Health technology can be difficult to evaluate. Products often make complex claims about clinical outcomes, access, usability, cost savings, compliance, and workflow improvement. Readers and buyers may not always know which claims matter for them, which evidence is strong, or how one product compares with another.

HealthTechCheck exists to make that process clearer. We aim to provide practical, evidence-informed editorial analysis that helps readers understand what a product does, who it is built for, what evidence supports it, what limitations exist, and what buyers should verify before making a decision.

Our content is designed to support informed evaluation. It is not a substitute for medical advice, legal advice, regulatory review, procurement diligence, or professional judgment.

Who Our Content Is For

HealthTechCheck serves both consumer and organizational audiences.

Our readers may include individual consumers and caregivers evaluating health technology for personal use; HR leaders and benefits managers comparing employee health and wellness solutions; employers, consultants, and brokers assessing benefits platforms; healthcare administrators evaluating telehealth, digital health, or practice management tools; clinicians and provider organizations reviewing technology options; and other health technology stakeholders including payers and investors.

Some articles are primarily consumer-facing. Others are written for B2B buyers, employers, or healthcare organizations. Where relevant, our reviews indicate the audience and use case a product is best suited for.

HealthTechCheck does not provide personal medical advice. Readers should consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about diagnosis, treatment, medication, or personal medical care.

What We Cover

HealthTechCheck covers a broad range of health technology products and services, including digital health apps, employee mental health platforms, telehealth services, EHR and practice management software, remote patient monitoring tools, medical devices and connected health hardware, wearable health technology, care navigation platforms, chronic condition management solutions, employer benefits and wellness products, and other health technology relevant to consumers, providers, employers, or healthcare organizations.

Coverage decisions are based on editorial relevance, buyer interest, product category, available information, and reader usefulness. Some products may be included in buyer guides, comparison articles, directories, or educational content without receiving a full scored review.

Editorial Independence

Our editorial decisions are made independently of our business relationships.

Review conclusions, scores, recommendation labels, and editorial opinions are not determined by advertisers, vendors, sponsors, affiliate partners, or commercial relationships. No advertiser, sponsor, affiliate partner, or vendor may require a positive review, higher score, recommendation label, or favorable editorial conclusion as a condition of any commercial relationship.

Our editorial assessments always reflect the honest judgment of our team.

Commercial Relationships and Disclosures

HealthTechCheck may receive compensation through affiliate links, advertising, sponsorships, paid vendor profiles, lead-generation arrangements, or other commercial partnerships. A full description of how we earn revenue is available on our Affiliate Disclosure page.

Because some content may be commercially supported and some articles may contain affiliate links, we include a disclosure notice on all editorial content pages. This notice informs readers that any given article may have been supported financially by a vendor or may contain affiliate links, and that our editorial team operates independently of those arrangements.

Our editorial staff is not informed of which content is commercially supported. Scores, rankings, and editorial conclusions are determined by our published methodology and are not influenced by sponsorships, advertising, or affiliate relationships.

Companies may advertise or sponsor content on HealthTechCheck to reach a relevant health technology audience. This does not give them control over editorial scoring, rankings, conclusions, or recommendation labels.

Selective Coverage

HealthTechCheck does not claim to review every product or vendor in every category.

We select products based on factors such as reader relevance, category fit, market presence, available documentation, buyer interest, and editorial priorities. In some cases, we may decline or defer coverage because of limited information, conflicts of interest, category fit, or other editorial reasons.

Inclusion, exclusion, or delayed coverage should not be interpreted as endorsement, criticism, or a complete statement about a vendor’s quality or suitability.

Expert Scoring and Recommendation Labels

Products reviewed on HealthTechCheck may receive an Expert Score — a weighted numerical rating based on category-specific dimensions defined before any review is written. Scores are consistent across all products reviewed within the same category and are intended to compare products within that category, not across unrelated health technology categories.

Some reviews also carry a recommendation label based on where the Expert Score falls:

• Highly Recommended
• Recommended
• Worth Considering
• Selective Fit
• Not Recommended

These labels are editorial conclusions based on our published scoring methodology. They are not medical recommendations and should not be treated as advice to use, prescribe, purchase, or implement a product in any specific individual case. A recommendation label does not mean a product is right for every reader, employer, provider, or organization. A “Recommended” or “Highly Recommended” label does not guarantee clinical results, financial outcomes, regulatory compliance, implementation success, or user satisfaction. A “Not Recommended” label means a product did not meet HealthTechCheck’s current scoring threshold or buyer-fit criteria based on the information reviewed — it does not necessarily mean the product is unsafe, unlawful, or unsuitable for all users.

For a full explanation of how our scoring system works — including scoring dimensions, weighting, anchors, and score interpretation — see our How We Rate Products page.

Evidence Quality

For some products, HealthTechCheck evaluates the quality of the available evidence base. This dimension is called Evidence Quality and reflects our assessment of the strength, independence, relevance, and reliability of published research.

This may include whether peer-reviewed research exists, whether studies are independent or company-funded, whether study design and sample sizes are appropriate, whether findings are clinically or operationally relevant, and whether evidence matches the product’s stated use case.

Important: An Evidence Quality assessment reflects our editorial evaluation of available research. It does not independently establish therapeutic effectiveness, diagnostic accuracy, safety, clinical superiority, or regulatory compliance. Consumers should consult qualified healthcare professionals before making personal medical decisions. Organizational buyers should conduct their own clinical, regulatory, legal, security, and operational review before making procurement decisions.

Medical Devices and Regulated Products

HealthTechCheck may review products that are FDA-cleared, FDA-approved, CE-marked, or otherwise regulated as medical devices.

Our reviews of regulated products are editorial evaluations. We may assess factors such as product use case, usability, deployment model, workflow fit, buyer fit, available evidence, and implementation considerations. Unless explicitly stated and supported by cited evidence, HealthTechCheck does not independently validate diagnostic accuracy, therapeutic effectiveness, safety, regulatory compliance, or clinical performance.

References to FDA clearance, FDA approval, CE marking, HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or other regulatory, privacy, or compliance status are based on available documentation at the time of review. Buyers should verify current status directly with the vendor, regulator, or appropriate professional advisor.

Medical and Clinical Review

For articles covering specific health conditions, clinical use cases, or products with meaningful medical implications, we aim to have content reviewed by a qualified healthcare professional or subject-matter expert prior to publication. Where such review has been completed, this is indicated in the article along with the reviewer’s credentials.

Conflicts of Interest

Editorial staff, reviewers, and contributors are required to disclose relationships that could reasonably affect — or appear to affect — their editorial judgment. Relevant conflicts may include financial relationships, consulting or advisory roles, investment interests, affiliate or referral arrangements, personal or professional relationships with vendors or founders, or prior work for or against a vendor.

Where a conflict exists, HealthTechCheck may reassign the article, add disclosure, limit the contributor’s role, defer coverage, or decline coverage entirely.

Our goal is not to eliminate every possible connection in the health technology ecosystem. It is to identify and manage conflicts so readers can trust that editorial conclusions are fair, independent, and clearly disclosed.

Vendor Participation

Vendors may provide information to HealthTechCheck, including product documentation, demos, pricing details, implementation information, clinical evidence, security documentation, and responses to factual questions. Vendor participation does not guarantee coverage, favorable treatment, a positive score, or a recommendation label.

In some cases, HealthTechCheck gives vendors an opportunity to verify factual details before or after publication. This process is limited to factual accuracy. Vendors do not receive editorial approval rights and may not require editorial changes as a condition of participation.

Vendor disagreement with an editorial conclusion, score, or recommendation label does not by itself require a correction. However, we aim to consider credible factual challenges and supporting documentation.

Corrections

We seek to correct confirmed factual errors promptly and transparently. When we identify or confirm an error — whether by our team or flagged by readers, vendors, or healthcare professionals — we may correct the article, add clarification, update outdated information, or revise scoring if the correction materially affects the review.

Health technology products change frequently. Pricing, features, integrations, regulatory status, clinical evidence, and vendor policies may change after publication. Product information should be understood as current as of the publication or most recent update date shown on the article.

Health Information Disclaimer

HealthTechCheck publishes health technology information for editorial and product-evaluation purposes. Our content does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, legal advice, regulatory advice, financial advice, or procurement advice specific to any one organization.

Consumers should consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about diagnosis, treatment, medication, or personal medical care. Employers, healthcare organizations, and other organizational buyers should conduct their own due diligence — including clinical, legal, compliance, security, and operational review — before selecting a vendor.

Contact and Feedback

We welcome feedback from readers, vendors, healthcare professionals, employers, consultants, and the broader health technology community — including reports of factual errors, updated product documentation, concerns about conflicts or disclosures, and suggestions for products or categories to review.

Feedback can be submitted through our contact page. HealthTechCheck retains final editorial control over content, scoring, recommendation labels, and publication decisions.

These guidelines are reviewed and updated periodically as HealthTechCheck evolves. We are committed to maintaining a transparent and honest editorial operation.