Epic makes its built-in AI Charting ambient scribe available to EHR customers
On February 4, 2026, Epic made AI Charting broadly available to its EHR customers. The tool listens during patient visits, drafts the clinician's note and queues up suggested orders from the conversation. Clinicians must review and sign off on all drafts and orders. Epic first previewed the tool at its August 2025 users group meeting. It is part of Epic's Art suite of clinician AI tools, and Epic says a chart-summary feature in that suite is now used more than 16 million times a month. Epic has not published a separate price for AI Charting.
Why it's notable: Epic runs the EHR at about 42% of US acute care hospitals, so a scribe built into the EHR puts direct pressure on standalone vendors like Abridge, Microsoft's Dragon Copilot and Ambience. It also gives Epic customers a ready alternative to buying a separate scribe.