On Wednesday, we reported that Seth Hain, who was leading AI efforts at electronic medical record behemoth Epic, is leaving the company.
But Hain’s departure is part of larger changes at the company. In January, Epic's chief technology officer and chief information officer, who had been at the company for nearly twenty years, left for Cylerity, a fintech company that advances cash to providers for unpaid claims. This month, Epic’s President, Sumit Rana, said he was leaving the company. And just this week, another double-decade veteran, Mark Morris, head of technical services, announced his transition out.
We’ve heard a few other names of people who have left or are soon to leave. If you have information, please reach out to Ruth on Signal at RuthReader.02.
Some notes: Hain and Rana were supportive of opening up data within Epic’s health system network, so that doctors could use real-world evidence to improve care. Both were deeply involved in the development of Epic’s health care intelligence AI Curiosity. The foundation model is built on COSMOS, a collaborative data set containing over 300 million patient records from roughly 50,000 clinics.
Hain said one of the things that drew him to working at Epic Systems many years ago was the potential to help patients. “And you could do so in a collaborative, productive way across industries and including academia,” he said on The New England Journal of Medicine’s podcast “AI Grand Rounds” in February.
Under both Rana and Hain, Epic launched its first open-sourced product: a way for validating new AI health products. The AI Trust and Assurance Suite, launched in 2024, gave health systems—even non-Epic health systems—a baseline tool for assessing AI products at a time when most health systems had not even begun to figure out how to test AI.
What’s next: Epic’s annual Users Group Meeting is convening on August 17-20. We’ll be watching to see what kinds of products are center stage this year and what it says about the direction the company is taking next.
— Ruth
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