Becker's Healthcare July 18, 2025
Naomi Diaz

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has launched an AI-powered virtual assistant designed to support clinicians with various tasks in its Epic EHR system.

The tool, named CHIPPER, was developed by Stephon Proctor, PhD, a board-certified clinical psychologist and associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Shakeeb Akhter, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at CHOP, announced the rollout in a July LinkedIn post.

Mr. Akhter said CHIPPER uses multiple layers of CHOP’s digital infrastructure. The hospital’s enterprise technology and platform services teams partnered with...

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