Sutter Health opened a centralized capacity management center to balance patient flow across facilities. A three-hospital pilot achieved a 27% decrease in net days above Geometric Mean Length of Stay, which equates to adding 12 hospital beds each day. The organization also increased transfers by 29% and sped up emergency department throughput by 8%.

Ochsner Health implemented Epic's Conversational AI for SMS Ticket Scheduling, part of Emmie AI-driven assistance for patients, for confirming and rescheduling appointments. By increasing the kinds of text responses the automated system understands, Ochsner achieved a 21% increase in appointment confirmation rates—from 43% to 52%. It also estimates it saved more than 500 call center hours in seven months.

After patient feedback revealed a desire for more empathetic, nuanced conversations about weight, M Health Fairview implemented an Epic feature that lets patients opt out of seeing their weight and BMI on the After Visit Summary. Staff received training to ensure this preference is honored during visits. In the first ten months, around 12,500 patients opted out of seeing their weight.

Advocate Health replaced phone and fax with digital workflows for communication with payers about specialty medication prior authorization, helping it submit requests an average of one full day sooner. It also started using AI-generated draft responses to payer requests for more information, cutting pharmacy staff’s time from up to 25 minutes to just 5 minutes per authorization.