Crash course in EPaCCS (Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems): 8 years of successes and failures in patient data sharing to learn from.

"Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare that all are involved in Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems projects and have their posts partly funded for work on such projects. MP is a research associate partly funded by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Project for Data Sharing in End of Life Care, JR is the Clinical Lead for ‘Coordinate My Care’, JA is the Lead for the South West EPaCCS and SB is the Clinical Lead for the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Project for Data Sharing in End of Life Care. JA also received royalties from Adastra, which hosts the South West EPaCCS."

"Funding: This paper presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care (CLAHRC) East of England, at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) hosted by Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP)."