Becker's Healthcare August 6, 2025
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is deepening its investment in clinician-facing AI with the development of CHIPPER, a virtual assistant embedded within its Epic EHR platform.
Designed to streamline time-consuming, cognitively demanding tasks for providers, CHIPPER is currently in technical development and aims to become a clinical co-pilot capable of synthesizing data from internal systems and external, evidence-based sources.
“The opportunity with AI is that we now have the ability to let the AI do some of that fetching and information synthesis and summarization for you,” Bimal Desai, MD, vice president and chief health informatics officer at CHOP, told Becker’s. “That’s what language models are especially good at.”
Unlike consumer-facing AI models, CHIPPER is being architected to avoid common pitfalls such...
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