Penn Medicine

name: Penn Medicine
description: 'Penn Medicine is the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) plus the Perelman School of Medicine. It
  is an $11.9 billion enterprise powered by nearly 49,000 faculty and staff, operating six hospitals (Hospital of the University
  of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Princeton Health,
  and Pennsylvania Hospital — the first hospital in the United States, chartered in 1751) plus Penn Medicine at Home, Good
  Shepherd Penn Partners Rehabilitation, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health. The
  Perelman School of Medicine was awarded $580 million in NIH funding in fiscal year 2023.


  From an API perspective, Penn Medicine runs a production Epic-backed HL7 FHIR R4 endpoint at `https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4`
  (Epic Organization ID 346, implementation description "University of Pennsylvania Health Systems FHIR Server"). The CapabilityStatement
  instantiates `us-core-server|6.1.0` and the HL7 Bulk Data Access IG, exposes 59 FHIR resource types covering Patient Access
  (clinical + claims) and Provider Directory per CMS-9115-F, and protects them with OAuth 2.0 / SMART-on-FHIR. Penn Medicine
  also operates the MyPennMedicine MyChart patient portal and the PhysicianLink referring-provider portal, and publishes open-source
  informatics work through several Perelman School of Medicine GitHub orgs (Penn-Medicine-CHCI, pennsignals, PMACS, pennbiobank).

  '
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/penn-medicine
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.pennmedicine.org/-/media/global/global-logo.svg
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
tags:
- Healthcare
- Hospital
- Academic Medical Center
- FHIR
- SMART On FHIR
- Patient Access
- Provider Directory
- CMS Interoperability
- US Core
- Bulk Data
- Epic
apis:
- name: MyPennMedicine Patient Portal
  description: 'MyChart-based patient portal that gives Penn Medicine patients access to medical records, lab

    results, secure messaging with their care team, telehealth visits, medication refills, prescription

    management, bill pay, and appointment scheduling across UPHS facilities. SMART apps approved via

    Epic on FHIR connect to the underlying Penn Medicine FHIR R4 API.

    '
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/patient-resources/mypennmedicine
  baseURL: https://secure.mypennmedicine.org
  tags:
  - Patient Portal
  - MyChart
  - Patient Access
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://secure.mypennmedicine.org/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/patient-resources/mypennmedicine
- name: PhysicianLink Referring Physician Portal
  description: 'EpicLink-based portal for community and referring physicians that provides secure access to Penn

    Medicine patient records: clinical notes, lab and imaging results, medication lists, and the

    ability to refer patients and follow care for shared patients.

    '
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records/physicianlink
  baseURL: https://secure3.pennmedicine.org/EpicLink
  tags:
  - Referring Provider
  - EMR Access
  - Epic
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://secure3.pennmedicine.org/EpicLink/common/epic_login.asp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records/physicianlink
- name: Penn Medicine Open Source Health Informatics
  description: 'Penn Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine publish open-source health-informatics software

    across several GitHub organizations: Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation

    (Penn-Medicine-CHCI, behind the Cobalt mental-health platform — cobalt-api in Java and cobalt-web

    in TypeScript); Penn Signals / Penn Medicine Predictive Healthcare (pennsignals — Databricks

    MCP agent templates; historically the home of CHIME, the COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model); Penn

    Medicine Academic Computing Services (PMACS — 17 Rails libraries, JSON:API tools, Oracle adapters,

    and Slate API docs); and the Penn Medicine BioBank (pennbiobank).

    '
  humanURL: https://github.com/pennmedicine
  tags:
  - Open Source
  - Health Informatics
  - GitHub
  properties:
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/Penn-Medicine-CHCI
    name: Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pennsignals
    name: Penn Signals / Predictive Healthcare
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/PMACS
    name: Penn Medicine Academic Computing Services
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pennbiobank
    name: Penn Medicine BioBank
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/pennmedicine
    name: Penn Medicine (canonical org)
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Penn-Medicine-CHCI/cobalt-api
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Penn-Medicine-CHCI/cobalt-web
- aid: penn-medicine:penn-medicine-bulk-data-api
  name: Penn Medicine Bulk Data API
  description: HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access (Flat FHIR) Group-level export.
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  baseURL: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4
  tags:
  - Bulk Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/penn-medicine-bulk-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4/metadata
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-bulk-export-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/oauth2/authorize
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=testpatients
- aid: penn-medicine:penn-medicine-patient-access-api
  name: Penn Medicine Patient Access API
  description: Patient-mediated clinical and claims data resources required under CMS-9115-F.
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  baseURL: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4
  tags:
  - Patient Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/penn-medicine-patient-access-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4/metadata
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-bulk-export-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/oauth2/authorize
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=testpatients
- aid: penn-medicine:penn-medicine-provider-directory-api
  name: Penn Medicine Provider Directory API
  description: Public provider, organization, location, and endpoint resources required under CMS-9115-F.
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  baseURL: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4
  tags:
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/penn-medicine-provider-directory-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4/metadata
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-bulk-export-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/oauth2/authorize
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=testpatients
- aid: penn-medicine:penn-medicine-smart-api
  name: Penn Medicine SMART API
  description: SMART on FHIR launch and discovery endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  baseURL: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4
  tags:
  - SMART
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/penn-medicine-smart-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/api/FHIR/R4/metadata
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-patient-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-organization-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-practitioner-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-observation-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/penn-medicine-fhir-bulk-export-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ssproxy.pennhealth.com/PRD-FHIR/oauth2/authorize
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://fhir.epic.com/Documentation?docId=testpatients
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/penn-medicine-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/penn-medicine-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/penn-medicine-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/penn-medicine-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://fhir.epic.com
  name: Epic on FHIR (Penn Medicine — Organization ID 346)
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Penn-Medicine-CHCI
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pennsignals
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PMACS
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/terms-of-use
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-health-care-professionals/for-physicians/electronic-medical-records
- type: Support
  url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/contact-us
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/penn-medicine
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/penn-medicine-fhir-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/penn-medicine-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/penn-medicine-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/penn-medicine-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/penn-medicine-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/penn-medicine-finops.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: CMS-Compliant Patient Access FHIR API
    description: HL7 FHIR R4 server with US Core 6.1.0 conformance and SMART on FHIR authorization, fulfilling CMS-9115-F
      Patient Access requirements.
  - name: Public Provider Directory
    description: Unauthenticated FHIR resources for Practitioner, PractitionerRole, Organization, Location, and Endpoint.
  - name: HL7 Bulk Data Access
    description: Group-level $export per the HL7 Bulk Data IG; supports backend services (client_credentials) authentication.
  - name: 59 FHIR Resource Types
    description: CapabilityStatement advertises 59 resource types covering clinical, administrative, and financial data including
      AllergyIntolerance, Condition, Observation, MedicationRequest, Immunization, Procedure, Encounter, DiagnosticReport,
      DocumentReference, Coverage, ExplanationOfBenefit, and Claim.
  - name: MyPennMedicine Patient Portal
    description: MyChart-based portal that fronts the FHIR surface for patients and their authorized apps.
  - name: PhysicianLink for Referring Providers
    description: EpicLink portal for community physicians referring patients into UPHS.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Patient-Mediated Data Download
    description: Patients authorize third-party PHR and care-coordination apps to pull their complete clinical and claims
      history from Penn Medicine via SMART on FHIR.
  - name: Care-Coordination Apps
    description: Approved EHR-launched and standalone SMART apps surface Penn Medicine clinical data inside referring-provider,
      payer, and longitudinal-care tools.
  - name: Population Analytics
    description: Approved system-level clients run Group-level $export to extract de-identified cohorts for quality measurement,
      research, and risk modeling.
  - name: Provider Directory Distribution
    description: Payers, referral platforms, and health information exchanges consume the public Provider Directory bundle
      without authentication.
  - name: Referring Provider EMR Access
    description: PhysicianLink gives credentialed community physicians read access to UPHS records for shared patients.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Epic EHR
    description: UPHS's underlying EHR; the FHIR endpoint is served by Epic November 2025.
  - name: Epic on FHIR
    description: Third-party app developers register apps at fhir.epic.com and target Penn Medicine (Organization ID 346).
  - name: SMART App Launch
    description: SMART on FHIR launch protocols for EHR-integrated and standalone apps.
  - name: HL7 FHIR Bulk Data IG
    description: Backend-services authentication and Group-level export.
  - name: HL7 US Core 6.1.0
    description: CapabilityStatement instantiates us-core-server profile.
  - name: Apple Health
    description: Penn Medicine participated in Apple's 2018 launch of Health Records on iPhone, allowing patients to view
      FHIR-formatted records.
  - name: Carequality
    description: National interoperability framework Penn Medicine participates in for record retrieval across networks.
  - name: Care Everywhere
    description: Epic-to-Epic record exchange for connecting providers.
- type: Solutions
  data:
  - name: Patient Access
    description: CMS-mandated patient-mediated data access surface for UPHS patients.
  - name: Provider Directory
    description: CMS-mandated public provider directory surface.
  - name: Bulk Data Analytics
    description: Population-scale FHIR data extraction for approved partners.
  - name: Connected Mental Health (Cobalt)
    description: Open-source Cobalt platform from Penn Medicine CHCI delivering employee mental health and well-being services.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com