Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain

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Seth Hain discusses the evolution of electronic health records and the impact of generative AI on healthcare software.

Seth Hain has spent two decades at Epic, watching the electronic health record evolve from digital filing cabinet to care-delivery platform. Now he thinks the entire stack of software is being re-imagined, only this time it isn’t mobile or cloud driving the change, but generative AI. In a conversation with Keith Figlioli, Hain explains how new tooling, cheaper compute and larger context windows are pushing healthcare toward an “agentic” era, where software can collect context, as...

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Guest: Seth Hain

Topics covered

• emerging technologies
• electronic health records
• generative AI
• healthcare software

Keywords

• care-delivery platform
• agentic era
• context windows

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Products: Epic

Books & works: Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth

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