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Your parent’s results and records at Emory

How to see your parent’s Emory Healthcare MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.

From Emory Healthcare’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.

See your parent’s Emory Healthcare MyChart account

Hospitals call this proxy access, or family access. You sign in with your own login and switch to your parent’s account, so you never need their password. At Emory: the patient sends the invitation from their own account.

  1. 1You and your parent each need your own Emory Healthcare MyChart account.
  2. 2Your parent opens Share My Record on the Menu.
  3. 3They choose Friends and Family access under Share with People and send the invitation.
  4. 4If your parent has diminished capacity, Emory can grant access with paperwork such as a power of attorney or documents from an Emory provider.
Emory Healthcare’s official page

Get copies without the portal

From the Health Information Management (HIM) – Release of Information.

  1. 1Download the Emory Healthcare Authorization for the Release of Protected Health Information form. The packet includes a fee sheet.
  2. 2Your parent fills it in, signs it, and names you to receive the records.
  3. 3Fax, mail or email it to the medical records office of the Emory hospital that treated your parent. Each hospital's details are on the page.
  4. 4If you hold power of attorney, you can use the free online request tool on the page. It checks your driver's license.
Family members:
The online request tool can be used by caregivers acting on a patient's behalf (power of attorney).
Cost, as the hospital states it:
There is no charge to have your medical records sent to another medical facility. Please see Patient Fee Sheet, which is the 4th page of the authorization packet.

The records office pageThe request form

Your parent’s rights

  • Your parent has a legal right to copies of their own records.
  • When your parent asks, the hospital must answer within 30 days. It can take 30 more days once, if it explains why in writing.
  • It can charge only a reasonable fee, based on what the copy costs to make.
  • These rules also cover an electronic copy your parent asks, in writing, to have sent to you.
US Department of Health and Human Services

Keep the results in one place

Vita Health Coach is an iPhone app that keeps each family member's results in their own file and explains each new result in plain words. Once you have access, add your parent, tap Connect a hospital and search for Emory. Paper copies work too: take a photo of each page.

Vita Health Coach on the App Store

Questions

How do I see my parent's results at Emory?

Ask for family access to your parent's Emory Healthcare MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient sends the invitation from their own account. You and your parent each need your own Emory Healthcare MyChart account. Your parent opens Share My Record on the Menu. They choose Friends and Family access under Share with People and send the invitation. If your parent has diminished capacity, Emory can grant access with paperwork such as a power of attorney or documents from an Emory provider.

How do I get copies of my parent's records from Emory without the portal?

Ask the Health Information Management (HIM) – Release of Information. Download the Emory Healthcare Authorization for the Release of Protected Health Information form. The packet includes a fee sheet. Your parent fills it in, signs it, and names you to receive the records. Fax, mail or email it to the medical records office of the Emory hospital that treated your parent. Each hospital's details are on the page. If you hold power of attorney, you can use the free online request tool on the page. It checks your driver's license.

How do I keep my parent's Emory results in one place?

In Vita Health Coach on iPhone, add your parent as a person, open Health records, tap Connect a hospital, search for Emory and sign in with your own login once you have family access. Their results arrive in their own file, and you can ask about any result in plain words. Connecting another person's hospital is part of a paid plan in the app.

Other hospitals: portal access by hospital, copies from the records office. Leaving the hospital? What to ask before they go. You can also ask these questions inside ChatGPT with Vita Health Coach for ChatGPT.

General information, not medical or legal advice. This page isn’t connected with Emory Healthcare, and its name belongs to it.