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Northeast Georgia Health System has become the fifth health system in the country to deploy Epic’s Chart with Art ambient AI tool for nursing documentation, marking the Northeast Georgia Chart with Art rollout as part of an exclusive early-adopter cohort testing this emerging technology.
How the Northeast Georgia Chart with Art Pilot Is Structured
A pilot group of 15 nurses and two patient care technicians is testing the technology across all five NGMC hospitals. This system-wide distribution, rather than concentrating the pilot at a single facility, gives Northeast Georgia Health System the ability to gather feedback across varied clinical settings and patient populations simultaneously.
How Chart with Art Actually Works
Chart with Art records real-time conversations between nurses and patients and drafts assessments, care plans, patient education notes and other documentation for the nurse to review before it enters the medical record. This workflow mirrors the ambient AI documentation model already common among physician-facing tools, now extended specifically to nursing.
Why Northeast Georgia Health System Is Deploying Chart with Art
“Our goal is to give nurses more time at the bedside,” said Marie DiFrancesco, BSN, RN, chief nursing informatics officer for NGHS, in an Aug. 10 news release. This stated objective directly addresses one of the most persistent complaints in nursing: that administrative documentation burden pulls time away from direct patient interaction.
Patient Consent and Clinician Oversight Built Into the Tool
Patients are told when Chart with Art is being used and can decline participation at any time, the health system said. Every AI-generated entry requires clinician review and confirmation before it becomes part of the permanent record, ensuring nurses retain final authority over what actually enters a patient’s chart.
Why Being the Fifth Health System to Deploy Chart with Art Matters
Joining a small group of only five health systems nationally testing this specific Epic tool positions Northeast Georgia Health System among the earliest adopters of ambient AI documentation extended specifically to nursing workflows, a category that has generally lagged physician-facing ambient scribe tools in broader deployment.
How This Fits Epic’s Broader 2026 AI Strategy
This pilot adds to a growing list of health systems testing pieces of Epic’s expanding AI portfolio throughout 2026, part of the vendor’s stated plan to roll out more than 150 AI features this year under its “Healthcare Intelligence” strategy spanning ambient charting, patient chatbots, agentic AI, and operational tools.
What This Northeast Georgia Chart with Art Pilot Means Going Forward
With the pilot spanning all five NGMC hospitals and including both nurses and patient care technicians, Northeast Georgia Health System appears positioned to generate meaningful early feedback on how ambient nursing documentation performs across a full multi-hospital system rather than a single test site. Given the explicit built-in consent and clinician review safeguards, this deployment may offer a useful model for other health systems considering similar ambient AI tools for nursing staff.
What to Watch Going Forward
As the pilot continues, industry observers will likely watch whether Northeast Georgia Health System reports measurable reductions in nursing documentation time or increases in bedside patient interaction, outcomes that have become standard benchmarks for evaluating ambient AI tools elsewhere in healthcare. Given that only four other health systems nationally have deployed Chart with Art, this Northeast Georgia Chart with Art rollout may help establish early best practices for nursing-focused ambient AI adoption as more health systems consider similar tools in the months ahead.
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