Regard Pros & Cons: What Nobody Tells You [2026]

Regard integrates directly with Epic and Cerner through standard EHR integration pathways. The platform runs as a background process that reads patient data from the EHR and presents findings and draft documentation within the clinician's existing workflow. Implementation typically involves working with your health system's IT team and Regard's integration specialists.

Proactive Documentation is Regard's approach of generating near-complete draft clinical notes (H&Ps, progress notes, discharge summaries) before the physician sees the patient. Instead of physicians writing documentation from scratch after the encounter, they review and modify AI-generated drafts that already include recommended diagnoses and supporting evidence.

Results vary by institution, but Regard typically upgrades MS-DRGs for 1.5-3% of seen encounters and reduces automated claim denials by 1-10%. Penn Highlands Healthcare reported a $7M revenue increase and 30% time savings. Sentara Health achieved a 17% increase in CC/MCC capture with 4x ROI per user. Regard provides an ROI calculator on their website.

No. Regard complements CDI teams by proactively capturing diagnoses at the point of care, which reduces the volume of retrospective queries CDI teams need to send. This frees CDI professionals to focus on complex cases rather than routine documentation gaps.

Yes. Regard is fully HIPAA-compliant and designed for deployment in hospital environments with enterprise-grade security controls. The platform processes protected health information (PHI) in accordance with healthcare data security requirements.