Epic brings several AI-powered tools designed to reduce administrative work and support clinical decision-making. Whether you’re documenting patient encounters, summarizing chart information, or searching for trusted clinical guidance, these tools can help you work more efficiently while keeping you focused on patient care.
Here’s a look at AI tools available to you and how they can support your workflow.
Suki ambient listening: Scale back on busywork and reclaim some time
Whom it’s for: All providers in Epic’s notes workspace
Suki captures patient conversations to generate clinical documentation, so you can spend less time charting and more time on care.
Suki INSIDE is available within Epic Haiku, providing a more seamless, fully integrated documentation experience directly in your workflow.
Learn more about Suki INSIDE from the Learning Home Dashboard in Epic (F1/Help) under “Suki Documents and Videos.”
Epic GenAI: instant insights from patient charts
Whom it’s for: All medical staff in Epic
Epic’s native GenAI tools work inside the EHR and use the patient’s actual chart data. This is the primary difference between GenAI and any external tool. With access to the patient’s labs, medications, imaging summaries, vitals, and encounter history, you can use it to generate first drafts that reflect only real chart information.
With GenAI, clinicians can:
- Summarize a complex medical history before a visit
- Draft portions of a note using recent results and documented symptoms
- Generate a suggested reply to a patient message based on the chart context
Clinicians then edit and finalize the output, maintaining full oversight of what appears in the record.
UpToDate Expert AI: a resource for clinical decision-making
Whom it’s for: All providers and nurses at UAB St. Vincent’s and UAB Medicine
UpToDate has long been a trusted clinical evidence resource for best practices, care recommendations, and key treatment considerations. Expert AI is a question-and-answer interface within UpToDate that helps users more quickly find useful information from physician-reviewed content. UpToDate spans more than 13,000 topics across 25 specialties.
You can interact with Expert AI the same as you would ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot. Expert AI is most useful when medical staff (including nurses, pharmacists, APPs, residents, physicians, and faculty) need to get oriented to an unfamiliar topic or confirm a detail they don’t encounter every day. It doesn’t create new recommendations. Instead, it draws upon existing UpToDate guidance and links directly to the full topics – including external citations – when a deeper review is needed or to simplify the research process.
To use Expert AI, all you need is an UpToDate account set up with your UAB credentials.
Responsible use
We hope you’re excited about how these tools can support your daily workflow alongside Epic. However, it’s important to be cautious about how we use them. AI output, such as draft notes, is shaped by your input, but it will never be perfect and isn’t a substitute for human judgment.
All AI output must be carefully reviewed and edited for accuracy. The ultimate responsibility for clinical decision-making always rests with the provider.