Advisory Board March 14, 2025
At the 2025 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, Epic announced new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled capabilities to improve its EHR system and the overall patient experience.
Epic announces new AI-enabled capabilities
During the HIMSS conference, Epic, the largest EHR vendor in the United States, announced several new AI-enabled capabilities for its EHR, including conversational AI features.
“We’ve woven AI into the foundational capabilities of Epic, and we’ve been working towards an agentic platform for the past year or so,” said Seth Howard, Epic’s EVP of research and development.
According to TechTarget, agentic AI “is a system that can complete autonomous action and decision-making” and “can complete certain tasks without human intervention.” These capabilities rely on reinforcement...