Epic in the News

Assort Health and Nextech partner to automate the intricate patient access workflows unique to eye care, with early adopters reporting 60% call time savings and 97% resolution rates.

Epic Systems halted new product development for six weeks after Anthropic's Mythos AI discovered untraceable access vulnerabilities affecting over 320 million patient records.

New clinical decision support feature powered by UpToDate delivers patient-specific insights 83% of the time, merging ambient documentation with real-time medical reference.

Assort Health's platform, trained on 250 million patient interactions, is generating up to $4.3 million in incremental revenue per 100 providers while slashing hold times by 75%.

A $15 billion clinical AI company is embedding the cancer center's precision oncology knowledge base directly into physician workflows, aiming to democratize expert genomic interpretation beyond academic medical centers.

CareIntellect for Operations uses proprietary forecasting models to help hospitals anticipate bed shortages, staffing gaps, and patient flow bottlenecks before they happen.

ARPA-H awards contracts to six teams racing to build the first FDA-authorized AI agent that can independently manage heart failure patients around the clock.

Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate partners with Epic Systems to eliminate context-switching and reduce cognitive burden at the point of care.

Epic integration gives clinicians instant AI-powered chart summaries cross-referenced with medical databases, forcing healthcare systems to confront governance gaps they haven't yet addressed.

ChatGPT's new EHR connection uses industry-standard SMART on FHIR for read-only patient data access, but deeper-integrated competitors may already hold the workflow advantage.

Florida Medicare provider doubled dementia detection rates in seven months after replacing standard paper assessments with domain-level digital cognitive profiling.

DeepCura launches supervised AI agent system that consolidates practice management, documentation, and population health into a single auditable timeline used by over 6,000 US clinicians.

The EHR giant is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos through Project Glasswing to scan hundreds of millions of lines of code while embedding UpToDate directly into its AI assistant.

Epic's 2024 conference revealed dramatic efficiency gains from agentic AI workflows, but early adopters warn of hidden operational costs in monitoring, governance, and talent that threaten sustainability.

Ochsner, Denver Health, and two other systems go live with real-time insurance checks embedded directly in Epic, eliminating phone calls and faxes five months before CMS mandate takes effect.

Social Security Administration's TEFCA integration slashes processing times and staffing needs, but leaves paper-based providers—and their patients—behind.

Atlantic Health's PatientGPT marks a strategic shift toward EHR-integrated AI that keeps patients within health system networks rather than losing them to generic symptom checkers.

The FTC and state attorneys general are investigating whether the electronic health records giant—controlling access to 82% of Americans' medical data—is using its market dominance to crush AI competitors and lock in customers.

Innovaccer's platinum partnership with Mastek signals a strategic shift toward global systems integrator alliances to deploy agentic AI and unified data platforms in international markets.

Nabla's enterprise sales director reveals the hidden implementation gaps that doom ambient documentation tools after promising demos.

The health tech company's new Mac-native dictation app processes all voice data locally on Apple Silicon, eliminating cloud dependencies while integrating seamlessly into Epic workflows.

Sheba Medical Center gains exclusive international access to ChatGPT Health, positioning Israel as OpenAI's testing ground for global healthcare expansion.

A new survey of 112 health system executives reveals how Epic's expansion into AI and enterprise software is reshaping the competitive landscape—but imaging AI may offer a last frontier for specialized vendors.

The departure of senior executives overseeing AI strategy and interoperability at the dominant EHR vendor creates openings for competitors like Nabla in the rapidly expanding clinical documentation automation space.

Major health systems report 30% reduction in clinician administrative time using Epic's Agent Factory to automate patient messaging, scheduling, and documentation without programming expertise.

New KLAS data from Epic's installed base reveals a sharp satisfaction plateau at four AI tools and a dangerous training gap that threatens patient safety and ROI.

As UST integrates Claude AI into its CarePath platform and Anthropic partners with Optum, the battle to own healthcare's administrative infrastructure enters a decisive phase

As artificial intelligence reshapes the healthcare landscape, the Chief Health AI Officer emerges as the critical bridge between technological innovation and clinical excellence.

Abridge has announced general availability of Abridge for Nurses across its network of more than 250 health system partners, extending ambient AI documentation beyond physicians to the nursing workforce for the first time at scale.

UToledo Health has published results from its deployment of Nabla's ambient AI scribe, showing a reduction in open charts from more than 400 to under 30 — a 90% decrease — alongside measurable improvements in physician-patient connection scores.

Qventus, the AI-powered healthcare operations platform, has published results showing a 30% reduction in operating room scheduling inefficiency across its 60 health system clients, translating to significant revenue recovery from previously wasted surgical capacity.