PHARMACIES Urgent care may be about to get even more, well, urgent. That’s because Experity—a company that provides medical records, practice management, and back-office systems for urgent care clinics—announced a new partnership with Amazon Pharmacy Nov. 13. Through the collaboration, patients at Experity’s 7,000+ clinics in the US will have access to same-day medication delivery (in certain markets) or two-day delivery for Amazon Prime members through the retail and tech giant’s pharmacy arm. This will be available through Experity’s partners, Kevin Clarke, SVP of strategic business development at Experity, told us, including Nashville-based HCA Healthcare as well as urgent care providers American Family Care, Fast Pace Health, and Bon Secours. The rundown. The main goal of the partnership, Clarke said, is to give patients more transparency around medications since picking up at the pharmacy can sometimes include lines, unknown costs, or stocking issues. Here’s more on Amazon’s latest healthcare expansion.—CM | | |
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Presented By Regard That’s how many data points each patient record contains. For clinicians, that’s quite a bit of data to parse through. And realistically, they can only review about 3% of what matters at the point of care. Thankfully, this Midwest health system found a way to close that gap. They used Regard’s AI-powered platform to review patient charts, identify missed or unclear diagnoses, and generate draft notes in real time—all before the clinician met the patient. The results? Documentation became more consistent, Elixhauser capture improved, and the organization saved hundreds of thousands of dollars from automatic denials. And most importantly, clinicians spent less time searching for information and more time focusing on quality patient care. Get details on how this health system achieved these results (and how you can, too). |
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HEALTH TECH Wellsheet was founded in New York back in 2015 as a smart electronic health records (EHR) solution for hospital systems and other providers. Its goal was to put information in the hands of clinicians, a mission made even easier with the rise of generative AI. Fresh off a systemwide rollout into St. Louis, Missouri-based health system Ascension last month, Wellsheet is continuing to grow its presence in the provider space. The company also has partnerships with New Jersey health plan Horizon and EHR company Athenahealth. “We now have tens of thousands of physicians, nurses, case managers using the product,” CEO and co-founder Craig Limoli said. Limoli created Wellsheet after working at IBM’s Watson Health as a consultant staffed at hospitals and health systems. Wellsheet summarizes patient charts by putting together data from across medical records into a “single, contextualized view,” he added. “We were so fortunate to have this infrastructure in place when large language models and generative AI were introduced just a few years ago,” Limoli said. “We were able to apply that on top of this infrastructure of ingesting all this patient data.” Limoli sat down with Healthcare Brew at the 2025 HLTH conference in Las Vegas to discuss Wellsheet and his plans for the company moving forward. See the full convo here.—CM | | |
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HEALTH INSURANCE Health premiums are rising this year, and as a result employers may start to shift more costs onto their workers. The annual premium for an employer-sponsored family health plan is $26,993 this year, on average, up 6% from 2024, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The average annual premium for a single-coverage health plan comes in at $9,325, a 5% YoY uptick, according to KFF’s estimate. Workers bear about 16% of the premium cost if they’re on single coverage plans, while those enrolled in family coverage plans pay more than one-quarter (26%) of their premium, on average. What’s driving health premiums higher? Prescription drug prices were the top factor cited by firms with 200 or more workers as driving costs higher. GLP-1 drugs for weight loss are top-of-mind for some employers when it comes to prescription drug spending, the survey indicates. The share of employers with 5,000 or more employees covering GLP-1s rose to 43% in 2025, compared to 28% last year. And nearly two-thirds of these firms said the drugs had a “significant” impact on their plan’s prescription drug spending. Keep reading on HR Brew.—CV | | |
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