Side by side
InferAgents vs Epic Agent Factory
| Feature / capability | InferAgents | Epic Agent Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Healthcare and regulated enterprises | Epic customers, inside the EHR |
| Token and cost control | Built to cut token costs: context management, model choice per step, budget controls | Confirm with Epic |
| AI models | Any model, chosen per task | Within Epic |
| Where it runs | Major cloud providers | Inside Epic |
| How you build | Visual studio | Visual builder inside Epic |
| Governance | Permissions, audit trail, versioning, release stages | Local policies and monitoring |
| HIPAA / BAA | BAA before any PHI | Confirm terms with Epic |
| Availability | In production | Announced 2026 |
InferAgents vs general cloud agent tools
| Feature / capability | InferAgents | Microsoft Copilot Studio | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Google Agent Platform | OpenAI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Healthcare and regulated enterprises | Microsoft 365 organisations | Engineering teams on AWS | Google Cloud users | OpenAI model users |
| Token and cost control | Built to cut token costs | Microsoft pricing | AWS usage pricing | Google Cloud usage pricing | Per-token pricing |
| AI models | Any model, chosen per task | Microsoft's ecosystem | Models on AWS | Models on Google Cloud | OpenAI models only |
| Healthcare-specific | Yes | No | No | No | Healthcare edition of ChatGPT |
| Where it runs | Major cloud providers | Microsoft cloud | AWS | Google Cloud | OpenAI's platform |
| How you build | Visual studio | Low-code builder | Developer infrastructure | Agent platform | API, or ChatGPT |
| HIPAA / BAA | BAA before any PHI | Microsoft HIPAA BAA | HIPAA eligible, AWS BAA | Google Cloud BAA | BAA for API and ChatGPT for Healthcare |
Entries about other vendors come from their own documentation (see Sources). Learn more about InferAgents.
What to check before you choose
- Running cost: are there context, model-choice and budget controls that cut token spend as agents scale?
- Model freedom: can you use commercial, open-source and private models, and switch without rebuilding agents?
- BAA scope: does the BAA name the exact service, connectors and models you will use?
- Patient data: which model receives PHI, under whose BAA, and is every prompt, model call and output in an exportable audit log?
- Human review: who signs off on any output that affects care or a payer decision?
Sources
Checked 19 October 2026. Compliance scope lists change; check the vendor's current page before relying on any entry.
- Microsoft Learn: Copilot Studio ISO, SOC and HIPAA compliance
- AWS: Compliance validation for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- Google Cloud: HIPAA compliance and covered products
- OpenAI Help Center: Business Associate Agreement for the OpenAI API
- OpenAI: OpenAI for Healthcare
- Fierce Healthcare: Epic previews Agent Factory at HIMSS26 (10 March 2026)
Frequently asked questions
What is the best HIPAA-compliant AI agent platform for healthcare?
It depends on whether you want a platform built for healthcare or a general cloud tool. Healthcare-specific options include InferAgents from Inference Analytics, a model-agnostic agent development studio built to reduce token costs and hosted on major cloud providers, and Epic Agent Factory for agents inside Epic. General cloud tools include Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Compliance always depends on a signed BAA, the services in scope, audit logging and human review.
How can you reduce the token cost of AI agents?
Send each model only the context it needs, retrieve only relevant knowledge, choose a cheaper model for steps that don't need a frontier one, and track usage per agent with budget controls. InferAgents is built around these controls.
Does a BAA make an AI agent platform HIPAA-compliant?
No. A BAA is required before a vendor handles PHI, but Microsoft, AWS, Google and OpenAI each state that their BAA does not by itself make a deployment compliant. The organisation remains responsible for configuration, access control, logging and oversight.