Providence Onboards Epic AI Tools in Project Pixel; Smitherman Says Some Stay on the Watch List

J. Scott Smitherman, MD, MBA, VP/CMIO at Providence, walks through Project Pixel, the internal effort to evaluate Epic’s AI portfolio. He covers the safety standard and time-savings test every release must pass, why fully loaded cost governs both native and third-party requests, how service-line governance works across 50-plus hospitals, and why clinicians deserve to hear what their request would displace.