Epic is a strong supporter of the HL7® FHIR® standard as the future of REST-based interoperability. We support over 500 FHIR APIs across 57 resources in accordance with the HL7 FHIR standard. This spans the DSTU2, STU3, and R4 versions of the FHIR specification. We continue to regularly grow our number of supported FHIR APIs. Organizations can grant access to these resources via the search and read/write RESTful APIs that are defined by FHIR.

Epic in the Nordics

Sites live on Epic in Denmark, Finland, and Norway make use of Epic's integration capabilities - FHIR and beyond - every day. You can find out more at https://open.epic.com/CountrySpecific/.

International Patient Summary

Epic will be among the first organizations to support the International Patient Summary (IPS) FHIR specification starting with our May 2025 release. IPS will improve care for patients by making it simpler for healthcare organizations to exchange data securely across international borders. IPS builds on Epic's existing Care Everywhere and CDA workflows to help customers coordinate care with groups that exclusively use FHIR. Learn more about Epic & IPS at fhir.epic.com.

SMART on FHIR

Our SMART on FHIR App Launch Framework provides a contextual and secure way to embed third-party applications into your Epic system. The framework supports apps for use by clinicians and patients, and uses OAuth 2.0 as a reliable, secure authorization protocol, and OpenID Connect for modern, standard authentication.

CDS Hooks

HL7's CDS Hooks enables real-time, remote, provider-facing clinical decision support. Within a variety of workflows, Epic supports displaying external CDS services' info cards, SMART app links and a limited number of discrete, actionable suggestions. See fhir.epic.com for an up-to-date list of supported suggestions.

Contact

open@epic.com
fhir.epic.com