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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Death by a Thousand Vendors: Solera Report Reveals The Hidden Costs of Digital Health
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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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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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Rune Labs Launches StrivePD Guardian, an AI Companion for Parkinson’s Disease Powered by Claude
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The Launch: Precision neurology company Rune Labs has launched StrivePD Guardian, a personalized AI companion designed to provide continuous, real-time support for people living with Parkinson’s disease.Safety and Availability: The platform was built with clinical oversight, utilizing cautious language and built-in guardrails to urge patients to contact a clinician when high-risk symptoms arise. It is available now via the App Store for patients, with partner
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Houston Methodist to Deploy Midstream Health’s Agentic AI Financial Action Platform Across Enterprise
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The Deployment: Midstream Health has announced a strategic collaboration with Houston Methodist to deploy its AI-powered "financial action platform" across the massive health system.The Starting Point: The technology will initially launch within Houston Methodist's supply chain operations, with plans to quickly expand into broader healthcare operations.
The 'Agentic' Solution
When a massive health system purchases hundreds of millions of dollars in supplies and
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