Fierce Healthcare August 21, 2024
Health IT giant Epic is pushing ahead rapidly to build out artificial intelligence technologies and generative AI features in its electronic health record software.
The goal, according to Epic executives, is to ease the documentation burden for clinicians, streamline charting and coding and bring evidence-based medical insights and research right to doctors’ fingertips at the point of care.
Epic is using AI combined with cloud technologies and its troves of patient data to change how EHR systems work, executives said during the company’s User Group Meeting in Verona, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
The company’s MyChart in-basket augmented response technology (ART), which automatically drafts responses to patient messages, is now in use at 150 healthcare systems and medical groups with 1 million...