What Epic Reported About Chart with Art at OLVG
Epic said on 2 September 2026 that Chart with Art, its native AI charting tool, reduced documentation time at OLVG, a teaching hospital in Amsterdam. Reporting the hospital's data, it says pediatricians cut note-writing time per appointment by 31 percent, and that overall clinician time in the chart per appointment fell 27 percent, from nearly 17 minutes to just over 12. Dr Felix Kreier is quoted saying he can focus on the conversation with the peace of mind that nothing will be forgotten.
Why the Epic Chart with Art Results Matter to Documentation Buyers
A health system choosing an ambient documentation vendor should know that a comparable saving is available from the record system it already runs, with no extra contract, no separate audio retention policy and no new vendor to govern. That is not an argument against the specialist vendors, several of which report larger savings and work across more specialties, but it is the baseline the saving should be measured against. The figures are one Dutch teaching hospital's own, concentrated in pediatrics, and five minutes per appointment is a real but modest change rather than a transformation.
Where the Epic Update Comes From
Epic is the original record behind this update. It tells us what the company published. This brief adds the market context and the method we would use to test the development against other evidence.
How We Would Research the Epic Chart with Art Results
The source gives us the starting point. This is how we would build the next layer of research around it.
- We would ask OLVG how time in the chart was measured and whether the drop held beyond the first few months.
- Then we would ask Epic which specialties the saving has been reproduced in, since the strongest result here is pediatrics.
- We would run the same measurement on our own chart time before buying any separate documentation product, so the comparison is against this baseline rather than against doing nothing.