Epic has announced the release of Introvert Mode, a new configuration for AI charting—Chart with Art—that extends ambient listening capabilities to clinicians who, as one physician at an early adopter site described it, “would really rather not have to narrate everything out loud.”

How It Works

Using advanced ambient listening technology, Introvert Mode interprets pauses, sighs, key taps, and meaningful silence to generate complete documentation of the conversation that almost happened.

“Not every clinician naturally externalizes their thought process,” said Corey Miller, vice president of R&D at Epic. “Some nurses and physicians do their most important work quietly. We didn’t want Chart with Art to be something that works only for extroverts.”

Pairing existing AI charting features with a visual sensor that is mounted unobtrusively in the exam room, posture analysis interprets nonverbal clinical cues—a raised eyebrow during a medication review, a subtle lean toward the patient when a symptom warrants follow-up, the particular quality of silence that experienced clinicians recognize as diagnostic concern—and translates these signals into discrete documentation in Epic.

What Clinicians Are Not Saying

Early pilot users responded with what the research team characterized as “enthusiastic nodding.” One hospitalist submitted feedback consisting of a single thumbs-up emoji, which the Epic team interpreted as overwhelmingly positive.