< + > Great Stats from Epic UGM

In case you missed it, we shared our roundup of announcements from Epic UGM.  One of the other parts I love at Epic UGM is all of the stats they share about the impact that Epic and their users are having on healthcare.  Below you’ll find our compilation of the various stats that were shared at the event:

• Epic customers train over 90% of medical students
• 17 countries in the Epic community; Germany is the newest as Charité joins
• 1.4 million clinicians assisted by AI in Epic each month
• Monthly gen AI activity in July 2025 was 50 million and is now 2 billion as of July 2026
• Art clinician and nurse summaries are in use at more than 300 health systems
• Chart with Art is live in more than 70 unique specialties and multiple clinical roles
• Chart with Art for nursing is live at 11 health systems
• More than 1/3 of Emmie conversations happen after-hours
• Professional Billing Coding Assistant reduced coding-related denials by 33% across 160 organizations
• In Basket Art reduced time spent reviewing patient messages by 50% (Texas Children’s)
• Ask Emmie – 1,000+ hours saved for call center staff over 10 months (Ochsner Health) and 73% fewer billing-related In Basket messages (Community Health Network)
• Dynamic Scheduling Templates saw a 16% increase in online availability (OhioHealth)
• Patient Flow saw a 15% increase in bed days using AI Transfer Assistant (Loma Linda University Health)
• MyChart Central has 346 organizations live in 50 states and available to 115 million patients
• SlicerDicer SideKick reduced time spent creating queries by up to 85% (RWJBarnabas Health)
• Epic Staff did 31,126 R&D Immersion Days in 19 countries since last UGM
• Epic used to release new versions every 18 months, now they do so every 3 months
• A single quarterly Epic release now carries roughly the enhancement volume of an old 18-month
  release. The latest release contained 27% more code than the same version a year ago

In the last year…

• When ordering or administering a medication, clinicians changed course 224 million times based on an advisory from Epic
• 127,000 gallons of blood were saved in the last year by using automatic order adjustments in Epic to combine draws and avoid unnecessary sticks for patients
• 413,000 lung nodules were identified in radiology reports using AI for discrete follow-up tracking helping 2,050 patient start treatment for lung cancer earlier
• Dentists changed medications 278,000 times based on warnings shown in Epic
• Patients were seen an average of 30 days sooner with Fast Pass in MyChart
• Patients saved $300 million on medications when providers switched to lower-cost alternatives thanks to alerts in Epic
• 9.3 billion patient records exchanged across 50 states and 10 countries – 50% between Epic & non-Epic – 90% of Epic organizations are live or installing TEFCA
• 21,000 duplicate imaging tests were prevented thanks to images exchanges across health systems

Implementation and Technical Service Stats

• 300k new users live
• 35 full go-lives
• 460 Add-ons
• 35k Gold star featured turned on resulting in 2000 more Gold Stars
• 1,500 upgrade complete

Cosmos and Cosmos-enabled insights:

• 320 million unique patients, 23 billion encounters, 99 billion lab results, 186 million surgeries, 170 million home care visits, 25 million cancer cases, 18 million rare disease patients, 15 million mom-baby links in Cosmos.
• More than 220 papers published (10 journals) based on research from Cosmos
• Look-Alikes used more than 25,000 times last year.
• Best Care Choices for My Patient live at more than 60 organizations.
• 20 customers are early adopters of Cosmos Curiosity.
• 56 organizations live with Best Care Choices for My Patient
• 1 million monthly admissions use Cosmos Median Length of Stay

Those were most of the stats shared at Epic’s 2026 UGM.  Which stats stood out to you?