Epic Expands AI Integration with Ambience Healthcare Addition to Toolbox Program

Epic Systems, a leading electronic health record (EHR) provider, has added Ambience Healthcare's artificial intelligence (AI) platform to its Toolbox program, marking a significant development in the integration of AI technologies within healthcare workflows. This move comes amid a flurry of AI-related announcements in the health tech sector, signaling a growing emphasis on AI-powered solutions for clinical documentation and workflow optimization.

Ambience Healthcare Joins Epic's Toolbox

Ambience Healthcare, known for its AI platform that handles documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, has been incorporated into Epic's Toolbox program for ambient voice recognition tools. This inclusion expands Ambience's reach and accessibility to clinicians using Epic's systems. The Toolbox program, part of Epic Showroom, highlights software categories with recommended integration practices and third-party apps that adhere to these guidelines.

Nikhil Buduma, co-founder and chief scientist at Ambience Healthcare, emphasized the significance of this partnership: "Epic has been deepening its integration and partnership with the ambient technology players out in the market. One of the things that we've been able to do with this partnership is take a lot of the features that Ambience customers really love about Ambience and make them natively available inside of Epic in Haiku and Hyperspace and Hyperdrive."

AI Integration and Industry Developments

The integration of Ambience's AI capabilities into Epic's ecosystem represents a broader trend in the healthcare industry. Clinicians can now access Ambience's features directly within EpicCare's mobile app, Haiku, across various clinical settings including outpatient, emergency department, and inpatient environments.

This development coincides with other significant AI-related announcements in the healthcare sector:

1. Oracle and athenahealth have unveiled new AI features and upgrades to their EHRs.
2. Abridge, an AI medical scribe company, is collaborating with Highmark Health to design an AI-powered prior authorization solution.
3. Rumors suggest that Epic may be preparing to launch its own AI scribe, with an announcement potentially coming at the company's annual User Group Meeting.

Investment and Market Dynamics

The integration of AI technologies in healthcare has attracted significant investment. Investors have poured nearly $1 billion into ambient AI companies in 2025 alone, according to a STAT analysis. Ambience Healthcare recently secured $243 million in series C funding, valuing the company at $1.25 billion.

Buduma views the increasing competition in the AI healthcare space positively: "Epic releasing a solution for health systems establishes a baseline for what is table stakes for health systems. In some ways, this competition from the EHRs is really good for the ecosystem."

As the healthcare AI landscape continues to evolve, companies like Ambience are focusing on differentiation through comprehensive solutions that go beyond basic ambient listening, incorporating additional aspects of patient care and revenue cycle automation.