MedCity News January 11, 2026
Dr. Jackie Gerhart firmly believes that an AI tool meant to help make sense of a person’s health or medical records must be housed within the EHR. She also contends that Epic’s digital concierge tool, Emmie, will do much more than simply reactively answer questions posed by the user.
If there’s any single company that understands or should understand the value of health data and its importance in patients’ lives, it’s Wisconsin-based EHR company Epic.
And yet, while the company announced a whole host of future AI efforts last August, including a digital companion for patients called Emmie, it was OpenAI — which announced ChatGPT Health last week — that has actually given people the power to query their medical...
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