Center to Advance Palliative Care

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is an organization that equips healthcare professionals and organizations with the tools, training, and technical assistance needed to provide quality palliative care. While CAPC emphasizes the importance of electronic health records (EHRs) and patient portals for effective palliative care delivery by healthcare providers, the available information does not indicate that CAPC itself operates a patient portal for direct patient care. CAPC provides resources and guidance to palliative care programs on leveraging EHRs for various functions, including data collection, quality improvement, and patient identification. They note that among programs reporting their EHR vendors, Epic is the most commonly used system. Individual healthcare organizations that are members of or utilize CAPC's resources may use various EHR systems and associated patient portals (such as Epic's MyChart), but this is specific to those individual providers, not CAPC as an organization. For example, one member organization mentions its own patient portal. CAPC's website includes a login feature, but this is for members to access educational and professional resources rather than a patient portal for managing personal health information. They also maintain a separate website, GetPalliativeCare.org, which serves as a resource for patients and families seeking information about palliative care and a provider directory. In summary, CAPC functions as a training and resource center for palliative care providers and does not appear to use a patient portal for direct patient interaction regarding personal health information. While they acknowledge and provide guidance on the use of EHRs and patient portals within palliative care settings, and note the prevalence of Epic among reporting programs, this reflects the systems used by the healthcare providers they support, not a system used by CAPC itself for patient care.