Build Patient Portal on Epic EHR with DrapCode
DrapCode builds custom patient portals around Epic EHR, creating tailored digital experiences that work with supported Epic data while fitting your health system’s patient journeys.
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Beyond MyChart
Epic already provides an extensive patient experience through MyChart and related tools. Patients can manage appointments, review results, communicate with care teams, make payments, and access health information digitally. For health systems with services extending beyond the standard MyChart experience, DrapCode can build a custom patient-facing layer around specific programs, populations, workflows, or digital health products.
Design Around Epic
Epic supports patient access across hospitals, outpatient clinics, specialty care, virtual services, and other settings. MyChart Central can also give patients one Epic ID for accessing participating organizations and connected health information. A custom portal therefore needs a defined purpose rather than duplicating MyChart. DrapCode can design around the experience your organization needs while integration requirements are mapped against Epic’s supported interfaces.
Key Features Provided by Epic EHR
Epic and MyChart give health systems the access, scheduling, check-in, and payment foundation your patient portal builds on.
MyChart Access
Lets patients manage health information, test results, appointments, communications, and other supported healthcare activities.
Online Scheduling
Allows patients to schedule and manage eligible appointments, procedures, diagnostics, and specialty care online.
Digital Check-In
Supports digital arrival workflows that help patients complete required steps around scheduled healthcare visits.
Health Insights
Provides personalized views of health data, test results, preventive care information, and related insights.
Online Payments
Enables digital bill payment and connects eligible patients with available financial assistance options online.
Care Communication
Supports connected patient communications across digital channels throughout different stages of the healthcare journey.
Built for Complex Journeys
Specialty Programs
Create dedicated patient experiences around oncology, cardiology, surgery, rehabilitation, or other complex specialty services.
Hospital Networks
Give patients clearer navigation across facilities, departments, services, appointments, and organization-specific digital resources.
Digital Health Programs
Build focused experiences for remote care, chronic conditions, population programs, or services extending beyond MyChart.
Key Features DrapCode Can Build in the Patient-Facing Front End
Create the patient experience around your programs while Epic remains the clinical system of record.
Program Dashboard
Organize permitted services and patient actions using an approach adaptable to an Altera Digital Health EHR patient portal.
Guided Navigation
Direct patients toward appropriate departments, providers, programs, resources, and next steps without clinical-system complexity.
Custom Onboarding
Create patient intake journeys around specific services, programs, eligibility requirements, and organizational processes.
Care Program Hub
Bring approved resources, program information, instructions, and recurring patient activities into one digital experience.
Cross-Device Access
Build responsive workflows that remain clear across smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop devices.
Branded Experience
Create a health-system-specific interface without attempting to reproduce Epic’s internal clinical workflows for patients.
Connect Through FHIR
Epic publishes HL7 FHIR APIs for interoperability and provides specifications, client registration, documentation, and testing environments for developers. Epic states that patient-facing applications can use OAuth 2.0 so patients authenticate with their MyChart credentials and authorize requested health information. DrapCode can map portal requirements against the appropriate Epic resources, following the same integration-first planning required for an Athenahealth EHR patient portal. Production connectivity still depends on the Epic customer environment, required APIs, authorization, and implementation.
Add Without Replacing
Epic already provides a broad digital front door, so the value of a custom portal often comes from creating an experience for a particular population or service rather than rebuilding MyChart functionality. DrapCode can build that additional patient layer while keeping Epic at the center of the clinical environment, similar to how a CarePaths EHR patient portal must respect its underlying system. Each Epic-dependent function is scoped against supported access before development.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Epic already provide a patient portal?
Why build a custom patient portal when Epic already has MyChart?
Does Epic provide APIs for patient-facing applications?
What can DrapCode build around Epic?
What determines whether an Epic integration is possible?
Build Around Your Epic Environment
Tell DrapCode what your patients need beyond the standard Epic experience, and we’ll map the custom portal, patient journey, and integration requirements.