# Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia/  
**Website:** https://fhir.epic.com  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Founded in 1855 as the first hospital in the United States dedicated to the healthcare of children, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a 692-bed flagship pediatric academic medical center affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. CHOP records roughly 1.63 million outpatient visits and 34,829 admissions per year and operates one of the largest pediatric research enterprises in the world through its Research Institute and the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b). From an API perspective, CHOP runs a production Epic-backed HL7 FHIR R4 endpoint at `https://epicnsproxy.chop.edu/fhir/api/FHIR/R4` exposing CMS-9115-F Patient Access and Provider Directory resources, US Core 6.1.0, SMART on FHIR, and HL7 Bulk Data. CHOP additionally publishes 320+ public repositories across the `chop-dbhi` (Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics) and `d3b-center` GitHub organizations, plus shared research data platforms including RADIANT, CAVATICA, PedcBioPortal, the Children's Brain Tumor Network, and the Kids First Data Resource Center.

## Kin Score — 37.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 66.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 47.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 31.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **MyCHOP Patient Portal** — MyChart-based patient portal that gives patients, parents and guardians access to virtual medical records, lab results, secure messaging, telehealth visits, medication refills, ...
- **Link2CHOP Referring Physician Portal** — Internet-based portal for referring physician offices that provides real-time, read-only access to the CHOP Epic EMR. Surfaces discharge notes, operative reports, progress notes...
- **D3b Data Sharing Platforms** — The Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b) at CHOP operates the open research data infrastructure for pediatric cancer and rare disease. Programs include RADIANT ...
- **DBHi Biomedical and Health Informatics** — CHOP's Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) maintains 168 public repositories covering health data infrastructure, EHR integration, and SMART on FHIR tools. No...
- **Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Bulk Data API** — HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access (Flat FHIR) Group-level export.
- **Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Patient Access API** — Patient-mediated clinical and claims data resources required under CMS-9115-F.
- **Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Provider Directory API** — Public provider, organization, location, and endpoint resources required under CMS-9115-F.
- **Children's Hospital of Philadelphia SMART API** — SMART on FHIR launch and discovery endpoints.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia Agentic Access** — 22 operations

## Security (2)

- **Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Use cases (5)

- **Patient-Mediated Data Download** — Parents and guardians download their child's full clinical and claims history into third-party PHR apps via SMART on FHIR.
- **Care-Coordination Apps** — Approved EHR-launched and standalone SMART apps surface CHOP data inside referring-provider and care-coordination tools.
- **Population Analytics** — Approved system-level clients run Group-level $export to extract de-identified cohorts for research and quality measurement.
- **Pediatric Cancer Research Collaboration** — D3b platforms (RADIANT, CAVATICA, PedcBioPortal, CBTN) enable multi-site sharing of pediatric oncology and rare-disease data.
- **Referring Provider Read-Only EMR Access** — Link2CHOP gives credentialed referring physicians live access to discharge notes, labs, imaging, medications, and diagnoses for shared patients.

## Tags

Healthcare, Pediatrics, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, Patient Access, Provider Directory, CMS Interoperability, US Core, Bulk Data, Research Data, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.