Epic Named to the 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Companies and Health & Life Sciences Industry Leaders Lists 

Epic was named to the 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Companies list and the TIME100 Industry Leaders list for Health and Life Sciences, both published this week by TIME. 

The recognition centers on how Epic is using AI to speed up clinical decisions, patient communication, and back-office work. Art (Epic’s AI for clinicians), Emmie (Epic’s AI for patients), and Penny (Epic’s AI for operational workflows) are now in use across the Epic community, which spans health systems caring for more than 280 million people in the United States alone. 

The impact is already showing up in patient care. At The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, an AI tool that surfaces incidental findings from radiology reports has helped lift the early-stage lung cancer detection rate to 69%, compared with a national average of 46%. 

Epic is also developing medical foundation models that learn from nearly 300 million anonymized patient records, with the goal of helping clinicians spot patterns and predict outcomes earlier than today’s tools allow. As Epic’s Dr. Jackie Gerhart noted, “The promise of the [electronic health record] isn’t just a gathering space for information—it really is meant to be a predictive space.”