Becker's Healthcare July 16, 2025
Electronic health records, once viewed largely as digital filing cabinets, are now being reimagined as strategic tools to improve care delivery, reduce clinician burden and enable AI.
Hospitals and health systems across the country are piloting new ways to optimize EHR use. From ambient voice technology to AI-assisted documentation, organizations are working to streamline workflows and enhance clinical decision-making.
Stanford Health Care, based in California, for example, is testing an internally developed, AI-backed software designed to revolutionize clinician interaction with the EHR. The software enables clinicians to ask questions, request summaries and pull specific information from a patient’s medical record. ChatEHR is built directly into Stanford’s Epic EHR to maximize clinical workflow.
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