August 14, 2026 – Epic has launched its Care Everywhere Diagnostic Image Exchange, letting health systems on its EHR directly share full diagnostic-quality CT, X-ray and MRI images with each other.
For years, organizations using Epic have been able to share written radiology reports and reference-quality images, which provide useful context with less detail than larger diagnostic-quality images that are more expensive to store, the company says.
Now, with Diagnostic Image Exchange, the clinician can use reference images to identify which diagnostic image they need and retrieve that image with one click.
Diagnostic-quality images are stored in image archiving systems outside the electronic health record (EHR). Until now, diagnostic image exchange has not used open standards, so sharing has been limited. As a result, health systems are burdened with manual image retrieval, and millions of patients across the US still carry their images on CDs from appointment to appointment.
Epic is closing that gap. Using open image exchange standards and Epic’s existing interoperability pipelines, Care Everywhere can now transport diagnostic-quality images between health systems’ image archiving systems.