Mount Sinai Medical Center Among First in the Nation to Bring Ambient AI to Nurses

Chart with Art, an AI-powered documentation tool, is now available to its inpatient nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center, making it the first health system in Florida and the fourth in the nation to extend the technology to nursing staff. The tool, developed by Epic, the company behind Mount Sinai’s electronic health record and MyChart patient portal, has already been in use by the medical center’s physicians.

Using a recording, Chart with Art turns a free-flowing conversation into the clinical documentation that guides a patient’s care plan. The tool works in both English and Spanish, a meaningful distinction in a community where more than 30% of our medical center’s patients speak Spanish as their primary language. This program lets patients and families speak however they feel comfortable while the technology works in the background. That frees more of a nurse’s time, including some of the most sensitive conversations in care, for human connection.

“Our nurses came into this profession to care for people. Chart with Art lets them step out from behind the keyboard and be fully present at the bedside. That presence is where care begins and giving more time back to our nurses is why Chart with Art was implemented,” said Wendy Stuart, Chief Nursing Officer.

Over the past several months, Mount Sinai’s physicians have worked directly with Epic to refine how the technology performs in real clinical settings. In that time, participating physicians have reduced the time they spend in the chart per encounter by nearly 30%, along with the documentation they complete after hours. That evidence is what gave our medical center the confidence to bring Chart with Art to our nurses.

“Patients should know we held this technology to the same standard we hold ourselves to. Our own physicians used Chart with Art and confirmed it before we brought it to the bedside, and nothing enters a patient’s record until a clinician reviews and approves it. It safeguards the trust at the center of every visit, and that is good for the patient and good for us,” said Alon Weizer, MD, Doyle and Rodriguez Family Chief Medical Officer.

“Mount Sinai is one of the first to bring Chart with Art to the bedside, and their nurses helped us get it right—capturing more of what their shifts involve as it happens,” said Corey Miller, Vice President of Research and Development at Epic. “With their physicians expanding their use too, more of the care team can stay engaged with the patient rather than the documentation.”

Patients receiving care at Mount Sinai will be informed when Chart with Art is in use and can decline at any time. This tool doesn’t replace clinical judgment; every entry is reviewed and confirmed by the nurse or provider before it enters the patient’s medical record.

For Mount Sinai, Chart with Art reflects a deliberate, governed approach to artificial intelligence. Our medical center reviews every AI tool it adopts against a clear standard: does it make care safer, more personal, or more accessible? Chart with Art clears that bar, returning to clinicians the undivided attention that technology has too often taken from the exam room.

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