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Epic @hey.epic.com · 1d

Patients in Louisiana can sign up for MyChart Central today at central.mychart.org.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 1d

More on the launch: www.epic.com/epic/post/lo...

Louisiana Health Systems Launch MyChart Central Statewide, Enabling a Unified Patient Experience Across Organizations

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 1d

The first statewide launch of MyChart Central is now live in Louisiana!

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

MyChart now supports the new Bluetooth Generic Health Sensor specification, making it easier to upload health information from a device like a blood pressure cuff or a smart scale. #OpenatEpic

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

The Clarity data model is now available for license.

Developers interested in bulk data exchange now have a new option, opening another path for working with population-level data alongside Kit and Bulk FHIR, which remain available. #OpenatEpic

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

Over 110 Epic additional APIs are now available in a self-service catalog for developers who participate in Vendor Services.

This is in addition to the over 800 publicly available APIs already available.

Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

We've updated open.epic.com, our developer site, and showroom.epic.com, our app marketplace — making it easier for developers to build and deploy with Epic, and for healthcare organizations to explore nearly 900 apps to find the right fit. #OpenatEpic

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

More than 40 Playbooks are now available to help developers get started with common use cases— bringing together best practices for common data exchange requests. #OpenatEpic

Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

Developers: we’ve expanded Sandbox testing capabilities.

New workflows are available for you to create test data, visualize common data exchange patterns, and review the results of your API calls in test records.

Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

Available here:

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

This includes the new Developer Guide—an overview of how to bring your app to life.

The guide gives developers a roadmap to go from app idea, to connection technology selection, to collaborating with the Epic community.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 15d

We've updated open.epic.com, our developer site, and showroom.epic.com, our app marketplace — making it easier for developers to build and deploy with Epic, and for healthcare organizations to explore nearly 900 apps to find the right fit. #OpenatEpic

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 16d

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Epic @hey.epic.com · 18d

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Sep 3

Comet has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to calculate likely futures.

The story: www.epic.com/epic/post/co...
The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.12104

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Sep 3

Comet is a new form of healthcare intelligence designed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions. By predicting what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey, Comet estimates risk of disease, length of stay, treatment outcomes, and more.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Introducing Cosmos AI—a family of generative models trained on 115 billion medical events to simulate clinically probable futures and deliver actionable insights to care teams across the continuum of care.

Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.12104

Generative Medical Event Models Improve with Scale

Realizing personalized medicine at scale calls for methods that distill insights from longitudinal patient journeys, which can be viewed as a sequence of medical events. Foundation models pretrained o...

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

With deep integration and a code base centered around the patient, a new type of model can learn underlying relationships between interventions, treatments, and outcomes.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

A medical record is like a book—a Chronicle written in events, observations, and intervals of time. Language models are trained on billions of words to learn patterns in language.

Instead of words, what if there was a healthcare intelligence model that spoke the language of medicine?

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Actions taken during the visit like orders and documentation are added to a “shopping cart” to be reviewed and signed at the end of the visit.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Art is an active assistant during the visit, helping doctors focus on the patient.

It’s able to answer questions on the fly, give real-time insights, and take actions like queueing up orders and verifying prior authorization requirements.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Emmie hands things off to Art—AI that helps clinicians.

Designed to help doctors better understand their patients, eliminate busy work, and bring insights to help inform decisions, Art anticipates what’s needed for the visit and tees up tailored summaries for each agenda item.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Introducing Emmie—AI that helps patients.

Informed by your chart and connected devices, Emmie can explain results with context, answer open-ended questions to guide patients through healthcare, and take actions like scheduling visits.

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 19

Cool Stuff: A Thread

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Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 13

Measuring wounds just got smarter.

The new Automated Wound Measurements feature uses computer vision AI to calculate wound surface area and volume from a photo, right within the existing image capture workflow—so clinicians can focus on care, not manual measuring.

Epic @hey.epic.com · Aug 13

teddy bear wound care

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