STAT+: Epic launches AI Charting, potentially scrambling the ambient scribe market
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The nation\u2019s largest electronic health record company, Epic Systems, announced on Wednesday more details around its long-anticipated AI Charting feature, which could disrupt the market for ambient scribes. Several health systems are piloting the tools now, the company said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI almost bristle a little when people are like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s an AI scribe,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018No, no, it\u2019s a scribe, but that\u2019s passive. We really want this to be active,\u2019\u201d said Jackie Gerhart, chief medical officer at Epic, in a call with STAT ahead of the announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re just going to keep adding more besides just notes. So it\u2019s going to be orders, it\u2019s going to be diagnoses.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Epic is hardly the first mover in the ambient scribe space, but given the company\u2019s dominance in the EHR space it can leverage its huge platform and armory of patient records as the reason its product is superior to others. Epic holds 42% of the acute hospital EHR market<\/a> and 55% of beds, with the next-largest company, Oracle Health, trailing behind at 23% of the market and 22% of beds.<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n