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Your parent’s results and records at Inova
How to see your parent’s Inova MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.
From Inova’s own pages, checked on November 4, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s Inova 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 Inova: it starts from Friends and Family Access in MyChart or with a paper proxy form.
- 1In MyChart, click Menu, pick Share My Record under Sharing, and choose Friends and Family Access to start the process.
- 2Each adult must have their own MyChart account, so sign up for yours if you do not have one.
- 3Or fill in the form Proxy Access to Medical Records via MyChart. Give it to your parent's provider's office, or mail it to the hospital medical records department.
- 4If your parent has diminished capacity, you can set up proxy access at their provider's office.
- 5A court-appointed guardian attaches a copy of the court order to the proxy form.
Get copies without the portal
From the Inova Health Information Management (Medical Records).
- 1Your parent can request copies in MyChart: Your Menu, Sharing Hub, then Request formal copy of health record.
- 2Or your parent fills in and signs Inova's authorization form, naming you to receive the records. Include full name, date of birth, the records needed and how to receive them.
- 3Fax or mail it to the records department of the hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's fax and address is on the page. For example, Inova Fairfax Hospital: fax 703-776-6456.
- 4Questions: 855-694-6682.
- Family members:
- Patients can have records sent to someone else, and authorized patient representatives can request records on a patient's behalf.
- Cost, as the hospital states it:
- Paper copies up to $0.50 per page for the first 50 pages and $0.25 per page after; search and handling up to $20; postage extra
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 Inova. 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 Inova?
Ask for family access to your parent's Inova MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). It starts from Friends and Family Access in MyChart or with a paper proxy form. In MyChart, click Menu, pick Share My Record under Sharing, and choose Friends and Family Access to start the process. Each adult must have their own MyChart account, so sign up for yours if you do not have one. Or fill in the form Proxy Access to Medical Records via MyChart. Give it to your parent's provider's office, or mail it to the hospital medical records department. If your parent has diminished capacity, you can set up proxy access at their provider's office. A court-appointed guardian attaches a copy of the court order to the proxy form.
How do I get copies of my parent's records from Inova without the portal?
Ask the Inova Health Information Management (Medical Records). Your parent can request copies in MyChart: Your Menu, Sharing Hub, then Request formal copy of health record. Or your parent fills in and signs Inova's authorization form, naming you to receive the records. Include full name, date of birth, the records needed and how to receive them. Fax or mail it to the records department of the hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's fax and address is on the page. For example, Inova Fairfax Hospital: fax 703-776-6456. Questions: 855-694-6682.
How do I keep my parent's Inova 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 Inova 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 Inova, and its name belongs to it.