Inside Epic’s Push to Help Customers Build Their Own AI Agents Using Agent Factory

Inside Epic’s Push to Help Customers Build Their Own AI Agents Using Agent Factory

Author: John Lynn September 25, 2026 Duration: 22:57

Epic Agent Factory, a tool for Epic users to build their own AI agents, was announced this past January. Now, according to Derek De Young, Software Developer at Epic, the tool is moving into a new stage where Epic will quickly put it into the hands of their customers.

Agent Factory provides a platform to leverage 129 of the AI features in Epic. De Young describes three stages in its use. First, he expects organizations to shape existing AI features to the organization's policies, guidelines, data, and workflows. Next, they will build new agentic features for revenue cycle management, clinical decision making, patient engagement, etc. In the future, Epic will expand the scope of Agent Factory to use external connectors and run on partner platforms outside Epic, including Care Everywhere.

Learn more about Epic: https://www.epic.com/

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