Nearly two-thirds of US hospitals running Epic's electronic records platform had deployed an ambient AI documentation tool by mid-2025, according to a study in the American Journal of Managed Care. Physician use of voice-based documentation rose from 20% to 29% in under a year.
That pace is unusual for health IT, which typically moves through long procurement cycles and reluctant adoption. Ambient documentation spread partly by word of mouth among physicians.
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