Prescribing has evolved into a financial decision as much as a clinical one. As a result, one of the most consequential access moments is now occurring inside the electronic health record (EHR) during the prescribing workflow, when cost information surfaces and treatment decisions are finalized.
As affordability pressures intensify across commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations, patient out-of-pocket costs have become a primary driver of whether therapy is initiated or abandoned.
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Archives for 2026
Death by a Thousand Vendors: Solera Report Reveals The Hidden Costs of Digital Health
What You Should Know:
The Report: Solera Health released a research report titled "Death by a Thousand Vendors: The Hidden Costs of Digital Health". The survey included 106 senior benefits leaders at organizations with 1,000 or more employees.The Financial Drain: 90% of organizations spend more than $1 million annually on digital health. The estimated median annual cost of simply managing these vendors—including full-time employees and consultants—is approximately $580,000 on top of the
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Qventus Report: 94% of Healthcare CIOs Say AI Delays Create Competitive Disadvantage
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Qventus released a new industry report surveying 60+ CIOs, Chief AI Officers, CMIOs, and other senior IT leadership from national health systems, including HonorHealth, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Rochester Regional Health to uncover how they are spending, evaluating, and regulating AI.The report, Beyond the Pilot: How CIOs Are Operationalizing AI Across Health Systems in 2026, confirms that the AI market is at a pressure point. As EHR giants
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The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design
When hospital administrators started talking about "AI-powered solutions" for perioperative care a few years ago, I was deeply skeptical. I'd watched too many technology promises fail to deliver. EHR modules that were supposed to streamline workflows but actually made them more cumbersome. "Intelligent" scheduling systems that didn't account for clinical realities. Patient portals that patients didn't use.
The problem wasn't the technology, it was that most solutions were designed by people
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EBSCO Clinical Decisions Report: 80% of Clinicians Trust Evidence-Based AI Tools
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The Trust Divide: A newly released report from EBSCO Clinical Decisions highlights a massive disconnect between clinical readiness and patient confidence regarding AI in healthcare. While 89% of clinicians believe AI for clinical decision support (AI-CDS) will ultimately lead to better patient outcomes, 64% of consumers would prefer to see a healthcare professional who does not use AI at all.General vs. Evidence-Based AI: Consumer skepticism is heavily tied to the type of
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J.D. Power: Why Medicare Advantage App Usage is Plummeting While Commercial Adoption Soars
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The Study: J.D. Power has released its 2026 U.S. Healthcare Digital Experience Study, measuring member satisfaction across five factors: visual appeal, navigation, information/content, speed, and telehealth.The Winners: Cigna Healthcare ranked highest among commercial plans (for the second consecutive year), followed by Premera Blue Cross and UnitedHealthcare. UPMC Health Plan took the top spot for Medicare Advantage (also its second consecutive win), followed by
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Amazon Pharmacy Partners with Eli Lilly to Offer Foundayo GLP-1 with Same-Day Delivery
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The Drug: Amazon Pharmacy is now dispensing Foundayo™, Eli Lilly's recently approved, once-daily oral GLP-1 medication indicated for adults with obesity or overweight with weight-related medical problems.The Pricing: Amazon is utilizing radical price transparency and automatic couponing. With insurance, the drug costs $25 per month ($1 per day). For cash-pay customers, it is aggressively priced at $149 per month ($5 per day).
How Amazon Pharmacy's Same-Day GLP-1
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Luminai Secures $38M, Inks Enterprise AI Partnership with Cleveland Clinic
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The Funding: Luminai, an AI-native enterprise automation platform for healthcare, has closed a $38M Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to $60M.The Mega-Partnership: Luminai simultaneously announced a massive enterprise AI deployment with the Cleveland Clinic (which serves 15 million patients across 23 hospitals). The initial use case uses AI to process, classify, and intelligently route complex faxed referrals across thousands of possible
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Click Therapeutics Secures $50M to Commercialize Schizophrenia Digital Therapeutic
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics have restructured their commercialization agreement for CT-155. Boehringer is transferring all commercial and marketing rights to Click, backed by a $50M Series D strategic investment and undisclosed dedicated commercial funding.
The Clinical Moat: Conquering 'Negative' Symptoms
To understand why Boehringer is willing to pour $50M into Click's commercial engine, you have to look at the massive clinical unmet need
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Talkiatry Launches Talkiatry Connect for Cloud-Based EMR Psychiatric Referrals
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The Launch: Talkiatry, the nation’s largest private employer of psychiatrists, has launched Talkiatry Connect, a new referral tool that embeds directly inside a provider's existing cloud-based EMR.The Solution: Talkiatry Connect acts as a browser-based overlay (running on Chromium browsers) that integrates with over 30 cloud-based EMRs, including Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and Practice Fusion. A small icon alerts the provider if a patient might need psychiatric care,
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