At Epic's annual customer meeting in Verona, CEO Judy Faulkner — wearing a lavender wig, bright green glasses, and silver pants — unveiled new artificial intelligence features to be integrated into the company’s EHR software. Announcements included an AI scribe powered by Microsoft intended to compete with platforms such as Abridge, plus AI assistants aimed at physicians, patients, and administrative staff. Epic framed the updates as tools to reduce physicians’ hours spent on clinical documentation and to help patients obtain answers about their care. With more than 40% of the hospital EHR market, Epic’s embrace of AI underscores its dominance even as rival vendors have publicly pursued their own AI strategies. Oracle Health, the second-largest EHR vendor, has promoted a refreshed “AI-native” EHR, and vendors like Ambience have built Epic-specific navigation agents on models such as OpenAI’s GPT-5. The article is published as a STAT+ exclusive requiring subscription for full access.