Newsweek Explores Agentic AI in Healthcare

A recent Newsweek article focuses on agentic AI as the next frontier in healthcare automation, offering AI that can act independently to complete tasks. The piece discusses use cases across hospital operations, clinical support, and patient communications.

Epic’s approach emphasizes targeted use of AI where it can extend the capabilities of care teams. “I wish I had thousands of doctors that could do every single phone call to every patient, every outreach, every follow-up,” said Jackie Gerhart, MD, Epic’s Chief Medical Officer. Epic’s AI agents can bridge communication gaps, for example—checking in with patients after missed appointments, scheduling lab work, and gathering key concerns ahead of visits. 

“It’s really this opportunity to reimagine what medicine can be, and the extent of medicine that you can do, with the new tools that you have,” added Gerhart.

Read it here.