Twenty-five health systems are developing artificial intelligence agents for clinical and operational workflows as part of an Epic event.
The organizations are participating in Epic’s second Agent Factory Build-a-Thon in Verona, Wis., according to a Sept. 15 company news release.
Projects under development include agents designed to identify patients at risk of surgery cancellations, review medication refill requests against clinical protocols and patient charts, and flag premature infants who may show early signs of necrotizing enterocolitis.
Other teams are working on agents that could identify missing critical care documentation or support patient safety investigations by assembling timelines and drafting root cause analyses.
Some of the projects are being designed to work with Art, Epic’s AI tool for clinicians. One team, for example, is developing an agent to review medication histories before admission and flag potential conflicts with new orders.
Epic said the teams pair clinical and operational leaders with technical staff, with Epic developers also participating in the development process.
Agent Factory is Epic’s platform for building, monitoring and evaluating AI agents. Epic held its first Agent Factory Build-a-Thon in May.
Training for an initial group of Agent Factory early adopters is scheduled to begin in October, with broader availability planned for 2027.
