Epic Art AI

Epic Art AI refers to Epic Art for Clinicians, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities embedded within clinical workflows to help clinicians understand patient information, complete documentation, and reduce repetitive work. Epic Art is part of Epic’s broader AI portfolio, and is designed to support AI charting and clinical administrative assistance by using information available within Epic to generate drafts, summarize clinical information, extract relevant data, and provide workflow-specific suggestions for clinician review. Rather than functioning as a separate AI application, Epic Art brings these capabilities into existing Epic workflows, helping clinicians spend less time navigating charts and completing routine documentation and more time focused on patient care.

The Epic Art AI tool offers a broad range of capabilities for clinicians, including:

Message drafting - generates potential responses to patient messages for clinician review.
Draft outpatient notes, orders, and diagnoses - captures visit conversations and drafts notes while extracting potential orders and diagnoses.
Inpatient and outpatient insights - summarizes patient history, recent developments, and notes to reduce manual chart review.
Draft care plan notes - uses existing chart information to prepare end-of-shift nursing notes and reduce nurses’ documentation workload.
Text editing - adjusts clinician-written text for different audiences, vocabulary, or tone.
Cancer staging - extracts staging details from notes to support reporting, registry submission, and clinical decision-making.
Identify follow-ups from imaging reports - extracts important findings that may require follow-up care.
Draft hospital course notes - uses existing clinical data to prepare draft hospital-course documentation.
Patient message insights - summarizes relevant medications, problems, results, and other information while clinicians respond to patient messages.
Draft notes and queue orders in inpatient and ED - transcribes clinician-patient conversations, drafts notes, and queues orders for clinician review.
Complete assessments hands-free - records field visits and suggests documentation for OASIS assessments.
Medication insights - surfaces relevant information from clinical notes to help clinicians understand a patient’s medication history.
Risk adjustment coding assistant - summarizes evidence supporting diagnoses to give clinical documentation integrity specialists a starting point for review.
Understand anesthesia risks before surgery - summarizes relevant chart information to help anesthesia providers evaluate potential concerns.
Diagnosis code suggestions - recommends diagnosis codes based on documented findings, helping clinicians capture appropriate codes with minimal workflow disruption.
Level of service suggestions - helps clinicians select an appropriate level of service and complete visits.
Manage transitions of care - summarizes information from a patient’s recent admission to help care managers understand new cases.
Extract pathology case data - converts information from dictated or typed pathology narratives into structured report data.
Generate procedure note narratives - drafts procedure documentation from intraprocedural information for cardiologist review and editing.
Draft patient instructions from notes - creates draft patient instructions from clinicians’ documented assessments and plans.
Extract medication information - identifies discrete medication details such as dose, route, and frequency from outside records.
Quickly understand patient referrals - summarizes chart information relevant to a referral so specialists can prepare for consultations.
Extract social drivers of health - identifies potential concerns such as housing instability, food insecurity, transportation barriers, and financial strain documented in visit notes.
Draft therapy progress notes - prepares draft assessments for physical, occupational, and speech therapy progress notes using existing patient information.
Summarize patient problems for ED providers - gives emergency clinicians a concise starting point for reviewing a patient’s medical history.
Transplant evaluation insights - summarizes clinical notes to help transplant teams prepare for candidate reviews.
Follow-ups for cardiac patients - helps identify potential procedure candidates, notify referring providers, and prompt timely follow-up.
Identify care gaps - extracts recommendations from result text and converts them into discrete follow-up actions.
Assign available nurses - generates patient-assignment suggestions based on factors such as workload, staffing ratios, continuity of care, and nursing skills.
Discharge planning - extracts information from clinical notes and summarizes potential next steps to support patient flow.
Prepare nephrologists for dialysis patient rounding - summarizes recent treatments, vital signs, flowsheets, and nursing notes.
Help triage patients prior to surgery in pre-anesthesia testing - summarizes medical conditions, surgical history, and other information relevant to preoperative assessment.
Populate referral forms from scanned orders - extracts information from faxed referrals to populate discrete referral fields.
Find answers quickly with Ask Art - allows clinicians to ask natural-language questions about a patient and receive concise answers, citations, and visualizations based on chart information.
Translated patient messages - provides automated translations of incoming Spanish-language patient messages into English previews that help clinicians quickly assess whether urgent action may be needed.

Art operates within a larger Epic environment in which AI tools and automations extend beyond direct clinical documentation. Across Epic’s broader AI capabilities, generative AI can help streamline handoff summaries and other repetitive clinical and administrative tasks. Penny, Epic’s AI for revenue cycle and operations, supports tasks such as automated coding, denial appeals, and utilization review. For prior authorization workflows, Penny can help locate relevant documentation and build proposed responses to authorization questions. Epic’s payer tools can also automate requests and track approvals. MyChart Central gives patients one Epic ID for accessing MyChart accounts at participating organizations and supports password-free sign-in with passkeys and biometrics.

Epic also supports Embedded Call Controls, which allow contact center agents to accept, place, and transfer calls directly in Hyperspace. These native call controls help keep communication within the Epic workflow rather than requiring users to switch between separate applications. As Epic upgrades and updates introduce or expand capabilities across this ecosystem, healthcare organizations must consider not only what new functions are available, but also how clinicians and staff securely access them. Epic supports standards-based authentication approaches including OpenID Connect (OIDC), which can help organizations integrate identity and access management with Epic workflows.

Clinicians need fast, reliable access to Epic and other applications throughout the day, particularly as Epic adds AI-assisted capabilities, automated translations, embedded calls, and other workflow enhancements designed to improve efficiency. Repeated credential entry and other authentication friction can interrupt clinical workflows and reduce the productivity gains these technologies are intended to provide. Imprivata Healthcare solutions help address these challenges by integrating identity and access management with Epic clinical workflows. Passwordless access can help clinicians move more efficiently between workstations, applications, and workflows while maintaining appropriate identity controls, giving them secure access to the tools they need while allowing them to focus on patient care.

As healthcare organizations evaluate Art and other Epic capabilities, their access strategies should evolve alongside the EHR. Imprivata helps support secure, efficient authentication across shared workstations and clinical environments as organizations implement Epic upgrades and updates. Organizations can request a demo to explore how Imprivata Healthcare solutions support streamlined authentication and passwordless access designed around clinical workflows.