Episode 22
The EMR Is Dead. What Replaces It?
From iKnowMed to ambient AI — a 30-year view on what clinical software should actually do.
March 6, 2026 · 51 min
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A retrospective on three decades of electronic medical records, from the early days of iKnowMed through Epic's dominance to the current wave of ambient AI and agentic systems. What did EMRs get right, what did they get wrong, and what does the next generation of clinical software look like?