RAW PECAI MARKET & ECOSYSTEM ADVISORY

Battleground 08

Who Owns the Clinical Encounter?

Documentation, clinical intelligence and accountability

The management question

When the platform builds your feature, what makes you more than the feature?

Stack layers

Contested layers: 5 Domain platforms; 6 Workflow, agents and orchestration

Contest dimensions

  • Listening
  • Drafting
  • Review
  • Clinical evidence

Participants

Platform incumbents

  • Epic (Incumbent): the dominant health record; AI Charting built in since Feb 2026
  • Microsoft (Dragon Copilot) (Incumbent): ambient documentation built on Nuance

Ambient AI specialists

  • Abridge (Challenger): extending its clinical intelligence agent across partner systems
  • Suki (Challenger): ambient AI assistant for clinicians

New entrants

  • Doximity (Challenger): AI note generation free for eligible verified U.S. clinicians
  • OpenEvidence (Challenger): clinical evidence at the point of care

Ecosystem Moves

How the players are building, buying and partnering to compete in this battleground. Newest first.

1 Build · 0 Buy · 3 Partner · 0 Compete

  • Partner
    Mount Sinai / Microsoft

    Dragon Copilot rollout announced November 2025; competitive evaluation reported

  • Build
    Epic

    built AI Charting into its health record

  • Partner
    Epic / Abridge

    partners with Mayo since 2024; now overlapping capabilities too

  • Partner
    MSK / OpenEvidence

    precision-oncology partnership that includes Epic-workflow integration

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