Epic Systems Leverages Healthcare Dominance to Rapidly Develop Over 60 AI Tools, Including GPT-4 Coding Assistant
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Epic Systems, a $4.6 billion electronic health records company, is developing 60+ AI tools, including a medical coding assistant based on GPT-4.
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The coding tool summarizes clinician notes and suggests diagnosis and procedure codes to potentially speed up the coding process.
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Epic has an advantage over healthcare AI startups because its software is already used by over 2,700 US hospitals.
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Epic is partnering with Microsoft and Abridge on ambient AI tools to help clinicians draft notes, with 73 customers currently using them.
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Epic is moving quickly on developing AI tools so as not to lose its market dominance, but still needs human oversight and calibration of its AI.