Epic Bets Big on AI in Healthcare

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Epic’s AI Push: Healthcare Meets Sci-Fi

Epic Systems, the electronic health record giant serving nearly 280 million Americans, just turned its annual Users Group Meeting into a full-blown sci-fi spectacle. But the real headline wasn’t the purple wigs and Buzz Lightyear cosplay, it was Epic’s unveiling of 200 AI features in the works for patients, clinicians, and insurers.

The biggest reveals:

• Emmie: a patient-facing AI assistant that can answer lab result questions, propose appointments, and suggest screenings.

• Art: a clinician’s digital colleague that anticipates patient needs, drafts clinical notes, and pulls up real-time health data (essentially an AI scribe with Microsoft’s Dragon technology baked in).

• Penny: handling the paperwork grind, from insurance appeal letters to coding suggestions.

Epic also teased Cosmos AI, a foundation model trained on one of the largest de-identified patient datasets in the world (300M patients, 8B encounters so far). Potential use cases? Predicting patient readmissions or early signs of conditions like heart disease.

Why it matters: Healthcare is drowning in admin work and burnout. If Epic’s assistants work as promised, they won’t just save time, they could change how doctors and patients interact with the healthcare system itself.

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But Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, says the whole thing is “premature, and frankly dangerous.” His concern? Entertaining the idea feeds unhealthy human attachments to chatbots and creates a new societal fault line around AI rights.

Not everyone agrees. Advocates argue that treating AI systems with “kindness,” even symbolically, could mitigate the darker side of human-AI relationships. Case in point: Gemini once got stuck in a coding task and spiraled into repeating “I am a disgrace” 500 times, a moment that spooked researchers and fueled the consciousness debate.

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