r/healthIT
Health Information Technology
Founded October 2010 · Public — anyone can post
A reddit for discussion and news about health information technology, electronic health records, security and privacy issues, and related legislation.
Members
58,990
59K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
—
no sample yet
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
—
not enough history yet
Published rules
3
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
—
no sample yet
Distinct posters
—
no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 3 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/healthIT
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 56% | 22 |
| News / link | 14% | 133 |
| Discussion | 11% | 50 |
| Lessons / story | 8% | 57 |
| Rant | 6% | 68 |
| Show & tell | 3% | 10 |
| Tool comparison | 2% | 3 |
Based on 63 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 14
- Top 10% score
- 110
- Text posts
- 83%
- Got no replies
- 5%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 02:00 UTC, Mon 19:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- No commercial posts: Original posts should not solely be for the purpose of marketing a commercial product, website or service. This is a community for sharing insights into HealthIT by people who work in the industry.
- Include links in text posts: If you are posting and stating facts in your text, you need to include links to your sources.
- Link posts require a starter comment: All link posts require a sufficient starter comment to explain why the link is of interest to the community and to start the conversation. Posts without starter comments will be temporarily or permanently removed upon discovery.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Directly answers the question or addresses the prompt.
- — Provides specific, first-hand experience or data.
- — Offers practical advice or solutions.
- — Discloses affiliation or role when relevant.
- — Challenges assumptions with evidence or alternative perspectives.
- — Uses clear, concise language.
What r/healthIT's rules say about promotion
1 of 3 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No commercial posts
rule 3 of 3
Original posts should not solely be for the purpose of marketing a commercial product, website or service. This is a community for sharing insights into HealthIT by people who work in the industry.
The other 2
- Include links in text posts
- Link posts require a starter comment
Read from r/healthIT’s published rules on Sep 7. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/healthIT discusses.
Reddit's news and discussion community for medical device professionals.
This community is a space for public health professionals to discuss news, trends, new research, and updates in the field.
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting.
Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about the creation and use of technology and its surrounding issues.
This subreddit is for discussing cybersecurity topics, research, and emergent threats/findings.
Shared audience
Posters in r/healthIT also post in…
Work multiple jobs during the same 40 hours, reach financial freedom.
Learn about budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, credit, investing, and retirement planning. Join our community, read the PF Wiki, and get on top of your finances!
A reddit dedicated to the profession of Computer System Administration.
a community for building, learning, and sharing with claude code.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/healthIT — frequently asked
How many members does r/healthIT have?
r/healthIT has 58,990 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 25. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/healthIT growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/healthIT yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 3; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/healthIT?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/healthIT yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/healthIT created?
r/healthIT was founded in October 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/healthIT?
r/healthIT publishes 3 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No commercial posts”, says: Original posts should not solely be for the purpose of marketing a commercial product, website or service. This is a community for sharing insights into HealthIT by people who work in the industry. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/healthIT for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/healthIT into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/healthIT's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/healthIT's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
Read-only · Human-in-the-loop
Prowlo never posts for you
More free Prowlo tools
Subreddit Finder
Find subreddits by describing your product
Similar Subreddits
Discover related communities
Top Subreddits
The biggest communities we track
Reddit Search Builder
Operators, users, flair and dates
AI Writing Checker
Spot the tells before you post
Comment Humanizer
Make AI comments sound human
Reddit MCP Server
Give your AI agent Reddit access