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Your parent’s results and records at Houston Methodist
How to see your parent’s MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.
From Houston Methodist’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s 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 Houston Methodist: the patient sends an invite, or you send a request that the patient approves.
- 1You and your parent both need a Houston Methodist MyChart account.
- 2Invite route: your parent clicks Proxy Invite and logs on to their own account.
- 3Request route: you complete the online proxy form, and it goes to your parent for approval.
- 4Once your parent approves, the link is set up and you can open their MyChart.
- 5If your parent cannot authorize this, or you hold a medical power of attorney or guardianship, use the online form for that case. Staff may contact you for legal papers.
Get copies without the portal
From the Health Information Department (Release of Information / Medical Records).
- 1Download the Authorization for Use and Disclosure of Health Information form.
- 2Your parent fills it in and signs it, and names you as the person to receive the records.
- 3Send it by mail, fax or email to the Houston Methodist hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's address, fax and email is on the page.
- 4Ask for electronic copies (PDF) of lab results and discharge summaries.
- Family members:
- If you are not the patient, use the Authorization for Use and Disclosure form. It must be filled out by the patient or the patient's guardian or legal representative.
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.
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 Houston Methodist. Paper copies work too: take a photo of each page.
Vita Health Coach on the App StoreQuestions
How do I see my parent's results at Houston Methodist?
Ask for family access to your parent's MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient sends an invite, or you send a request that the patient approves. You and your parent both need a Houston Methodist MyChart account. Invite route: your parent clicks Proxy Invite and logs on to their own account. Request route: you complete the online proxy form, and it goes to your parent for approval. Once your parent approves, the link is set up and you can open their MyChart. If your parent cannot authorize this, or you hold a medical power of attorney or guardianship, use the online form for that case. Staff may contact you for legal papers.
How do I get copies of my parent's records from Houston Methodist without the portal?
Ask the Health Information Department (Release of Information / Medical Records). Download the Authorization for Use and Disclosure of Health Information form. Your parent fills it in and signs it, and names you as the person to receive the records. Send it by mail, fax or email to the Houston Methodist hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's address, fax and email is on the page. Ask for electronic copies (PDF) of lab results and discharge summaries.
How do I keep my parent's Houston Methodist 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 Houston Methodist 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 Houston Methodist, and its name belongs to it.