Epic UGM 2025: New AI Tools CoMET, Art and Emmie to Revolutionize EHR and Patient Care

Global electronic health record (EHR) giant Epic Systems presented new AI applications at its annual meeting, UGM 2025. The event featured Cosmos AI, CoMET and AI assistants Art and Emmie. Together, they signal a major shift in healthcare. This new landscape is predictive, automated, and collaborative. The AI simulates a patient’s future health. It also connects clinicians and patients seamlessly. Epic works with partners like Microsoft. They are turning science fiction into a real blueprint for healthcare.

CoMET: Epic Taps 300 Million Patient Records for Unprecedented Clinical Prediction

This year’s biggest breakthrough is powered by Cosmos, Epic’s huge database of de-identified patient data. The database now holds information from over 300 million patients and 16 billion medical encounters. Using this foundation, Epic partnered with Yale School of Medicine and Microsoft Research to create CoMET, a new suite of foundational AI models.

According to Seth Hain, Epic’s SVP of R&D, CoMET was trained on 151 billion medical events. It learned to read the medical record, which he called “the book of life written in medical events.” The AI understands the links between events to create valuable “health care journey storyboards” for patients. Hain added that CoMET already performs as well as or better than specialized models across 78 different clinical tasks, like predicting a diagnosis or disease outcome.

This powerful tool will be available to the Cosmos AI Lab in February 2026. There, healthcare organizations can test its predictive power and help shape its future use.

Epic Debuts Art & Emmie AI: Ambient Scribing for Doctors, Personalized Guidance for Patients

If CoMET is the brain, then Art and Emmie are the hands-on assistants in the clinic. They completely change how doctors and patients interact.

Emmie (For Patients): Before a visit, Emmie contacts the patient to help set the agenda. Afterward, it explains lab results in simple terms and provides reminders for medications and follow-ups. Its “preventive care to-do list” feature will go live in February 2026.

Art (For Clinicians): In the exam room, Art acts as the physician’s co-pilot. It instantly pulls data from Cosmos during the conversation and automatically captures key details to update the medical record. All orders and tests are put on a list for the doctor’s final one-click confirmation. This “ambient scribing” feature, powered by Microsoft’s Dragon technology, is set for an early 2026 launch. It promises to drastically cut down on documentation time.

Sumit Rana, President of Epic, emphasized that the real-world evidence from Cosmos will provide a critical internal validation and balancing mechanism for healthcare organizations as they adopt various AI tools, ensuring their outputs are both safe and reliable.

Epic Expands Market Lead Over Oracle, Eyes Statewide Public Health Integration

Epic’s influence is growing through both technology and market expansion. In the last year alone, 48 new healthcare organizations joined Epic. Notably, 17 of them switched from competitor Oracle, highlighting Epic’s strong position in the health IT market.

Epic is also expanding its focus beyond single hospitals to entire public health systems. Northern Ireland and Singapore have already adopted nationwide Epic systems. Now, Washington is set to be the first U.S. state to do the same. CEO Judy Faulkner explained the state’s Community Connect program will give rural and critical access hospitals the same powerful digital tools.

To further boost the platform, Epic announced more upgrades. MyChart Central, for consolidating records, arrives in November 2025, and a clinical trial management system will launch in early 2026.

The conference’s sci-fi theme, complete with staff in Star Trek-inspired outfits, was more than just for show. It was a clear symbol of a new reality: the futuristic dreams of science fiction are finally becoming today’s clinical practice.

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