News 10/10/25

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Amazon Pharmacy will fill prescriptions from kiosks in One Medical clinics and is talking to health systems about broader use.

Patients are sent a QR code in the Amazon app that is scanned at the kiosk to pick up the custom-labeled medication.

Reader Comments

From Made in the USA: “Re: H1-B visas. How are companies in this space being affected? My employer relied on H1-B employees heavily for years. They even restructured a major division in a way that nobody’s responsibilities changed whatsoever, but people got split into one role or the other. One of the roles allowed visa sponsorship, while the other didn’t. I am curious to know if other firms also rely on visas like we did, and how they are being impacted.” I welcome feedback from the front lines.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

HIStalk sponsors who are participating in the HLTH conference October 19-22: tell me about your activities and I’ll include them in my conference guide.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Workforce solutions vendor HealthStream acquires Virsys12, which offers a provider data management suite.

Oracle releases renderings of its planned $1.2 billion, 70-acre riverfront headquarters campus in Nashville, which will include a Nobu hotel and restaurant and a public park.

Microsoft reportedly licenses Harvard Health Publishing content to provide answers to healthcare questions that are posed by Copilot users.

Sales

• University Hospital Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Institute will replace three legacy PACS with Pro Medicus’s Visage 7 imaging.

People

Seattle Children’s hires Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS (UC San Diego Health) as CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

WellSky adds an ambient listening and transcription to its home health platform and will launch a voice assistant to complete OASIS documentation in December. 

A KLAS review of credentialing technology concludes that vendor relationships matter most, but full credentialing automation is not yet available and clinician usability lags.

TigerConnect earns FDA 510(k) clearance for its cloud-native alarm management solution.

Oracle Health announces GA of its Health Connection Hub data governance and reporting console.

All nine Epic-using health systems in Louisiana go live on MyChart Central, giving patients single sign-on, cross-facility access to records, messaging, and care management.

Wolters Kluwer Health updates Lippincott DocuCare, its EHR simulator for training nurses.

A Bain & Company and KLAS report finds that providers are prioritizing ROI-driven technology and are widely adopting ambient documentation and RCM solutions. Payers are focusing on care coordination and utilization management. Only 20% of providers prefer best-of-breed tools, and two-thirds of Epic customers would choose a given Epic option over a competitor’s better product. 

Government and Politics

A new KFF poll finds that 59% of respondents disapprove of the job performance of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, with most Republicans approving and most Democrats disapproving.

Sponsor Updates

• Black Book Research offers an analysis of how healthcare organizations are adjusting to the federal government shutdown in the areas of finance, operations, IT, and supply chain.
• Judi Health releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Solving Pharmacy Benefits: Inside the RFP Process, with Josh Golden & Nic Bolitho.”
• Healthmonix is exhibiting at the NAACOS Fall Conference this week in Washington, DC.
• Netsmart opens a new office in Bengaluru, India.
• WellSky adds new SkySense AI capabilities to its Home Health EHR.
• MRO will present at the NCQA Health Innovation Summit October 14 in San Diego.

Blog Posts

• The future of EHRs in Wales: A turning point for digital health (Altera Digital Health)
• The Specialty Drug Surge: Can Hospitals & Specialty Pharmacies Keep Pace? (First Databank)
• Minnesota Social Care Summit: Highlights from the North Star State (Findhelp)
• CX Metrics That Matter: Optimizing Your Customer Experience for Growth (Five9)
• Lessons from the Frontlines: Navigating a Cybersecurity Crisis During Healthcare Integration (Fortified Health Security)
• Updated 2024 MIPS quality benchmarks: What providers need to know for 2024 final scores and 2025 performance tracking (Healthmonix)
• “Beautiful” for Providers? Economic Effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 on Hospitals, Health Systems & Medical Groups (Impact Advisors)
• Reactive to Proactive: Using Denial Management Software for Healthcare (Inovalon)
• Revolutionizing Patient Access: Mastering AI Search for Healthcare (Kyruus Health)
• From data to action: Leveraging technology and collaboration to advance community health (Meditech)
• You Call the Shots: NG8 Upgrade (Med Tech Solutions)

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