Practical AI EHR picks for specialty practices (Mental Health, Cardiology, PT & more)

As AI becomes integral to healthcare, many EHR systems now include built-in machine learning to automate notes, coding, and insights.

Below, we highlight leading AI-powered EHR systems) for key specialties (plus some notable AI tools), describing their smart features and why they fit each field.

Mental and Behavioral Health

Therapists and psychiatrists need EHRs that speed documentation and support therapy workflows.

TheraPlatform is a therapy-focused EHR with an AI-powered notes add-on. It uses speech-to-text and text generation to auto-fill session notes, and even auto-scores standard outcome measures.

Similarly, CentralReach (for autism and IDD care) offers cari, an AI agent that audits therapy notes and claims and produces session summaries. These tools automate data entry and summary writing, allowing clinicians to spend more time with their clients.

Cardiology

Cardiologists benefit from EHRs that incorporate cardiac risk models and imaging data. Enable Healthcare EHR includes an AI charting assistant, enableAssist, and a risk predictor, eApredict. EnableAssist analyzes patient data to suggest assessment/plan insights instantly, while eApredict displays color-coded risk levels (high/medium/low) for cardiac events.

These features (alongside built-in cardiac forms and a DICOM viewer) speed reporting and flag high-risk patients. Other 'all-around' platforms also help cardiologists: for example, Epic EHR uses its genAI (built in collaboration with Microsoft) to transcribe conversations into notes and provide patient-facing assistants ("Emmie") to explain results, easing the cardiology workflow.

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Orthopedic surgeons often use image-rich records and need predictive care. PracticeEHR applies AI-driven decision support: it forecasts patient recovery times and complication risks based on prior data; its predictive models give surgeons foresight into outcomes and personalized treatment paths, enabling earlier interventions and tailored care.

Modernizing Medicine’s EMA (built around real orthopedic workflows by practicing orthopedic surgeons) also integrates AI: its adaptive AI scribe learns each surgeon’s note style, auto-populating templates, and speeding documentation. This combination of visualizations (charts and dashboards) with predictive alerts helps orthopedic teams work more efficiently and precisely.

Internal Medicine and Primary Care

General practitioners need versatile EHRs with broad support. The aforementioned Epic EHR (widely used in hospitals) incorporates conversational AI and transcription: it can turn doctor-patient talk into draft notes, and its assistants (like Art for clinicians and Emmie for patients) generate summaries and explanations. 

Oracle Health EHR (formerly Cerner) offers a conversational clinical assistant and semantic AI that links related diagnoses and meds in charts. For scaling practices, eClinicalWorks provides an AI scribe (Sunoh.ai) that records multilingual encounters and automates billing/coding decisions.

Recommended reading: Our Oracle Health vs Epic comparison breaks down features, pricing, AI, specialties, and ideal customers to help large organizations select the best EHR.

AthenaOne embeds a nuance-powered voice assistant to speed up charting and generates daily care-team reports using AI summaries.

Additionally, Veradigm (Allscripts) uses NLP to surface hidden insights (like social determinants or risk factors) from clinician notes and optimize scheduling.

AdvancedEHR also provides AI-powered documentation that integrates into existing workflows. It allows you to quickly create, review, and approve consistent, shareable summaries, including SOAP notes and patient-friendly visit summaries. 

In the coming months, AdvancedMD will also introduce several AI patient engagement features.

These include automated insurance card processing (handling imports, scans, approvals, and patient uploads), prior authorization requests and status verification, and AI-assisted coding to boost medical coding accuracy and efficiency.

Physical Therapy and Rehab

Rehab therapists benefit from EHRs that understand therapy dialogue and coding. WebPT (a leading PT-specific solution) has built-in AI tools tuned for rehab therapy.

It includes an AI voice-to-text scribe that listens to therapy sessions and generates structured notes, along with smart templates that learn each therapist’s style. It also provides real-time CPT coding guidance and compliance checks: for example, it flags underbilling or missing justification units as the note is written.

Honorable mentions (AI healthcare tools)

In addition to EHR platforms, these tools are worth considering (providing your system lacks the functionality):

• Notable offers AI agents to automate operations (patient outreach, chart review, etc.), essentially acting as a digital workforce.
• Microsoft Dragon Copilot enhances EHRs by integrating ambient speech recognition and generative AI, which work together to automatically summarize patient encounters.
• Augmedix provides an AI-backed ambient scribe with different levels of automation based on the specific needs of the clinicians using it.

The future of EHR is a blend of specialized software and AI assistants that streamline care documentation and decision-making. These tools don’t replace an EHR but integrate with it to improve documentation and workflows. 

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