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Your parent’s results and records at Johns Hopkins
How to see your parent’s Johns Hopkins MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.
From Johns Hopkins Medicine’s own pages, checked on November 4, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s Johns Hopkins 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 Johns Hopkins: your parent, as an adult patient, gives consent for your access.
- 1Create your own Johns Hopkins MyChart account first. If you have never been a Johns Hopkins patient, you can create a patient record for yourself online.
- 2Your parent, age 18 or older, gives consent for you to have access. Johns Hopkins posts step-by-step proxy instructions in English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish on its proxy page.
- 3Your parent chooses Full Access (all MyChart features) or Scheduling Only.
- 4Either of you can stop the access at any time.
- 5If your parent cannot make their own medical decisions, the legal representative completes the Incapacitated Adult Proxy Access form and gives it to a Johns Hopkins staff member with a court order or other legal document.
- 6Questions: MyChart help line, 1-800-318-4246.
Get copies without the portal
From the Health Information Management (HIM) Department.
- 1Download the Authorization for Release of Health Information form for the kind of place your parent was treated: hospitals, community physicians, home care or other providers.
- 2Your parent fills it in and signs it, naming you. It must give the dates of service and the type of records needed.
- 3On the page, choose the Johns Hopkins facility where your parent was treated to see where to send it. Forms are also available at the facility, or can be mailed, emailed or faxed to you.
- 4Picking up copies in person needs photo ID.
- Family members:
- Patients or their representatives with legal medical power of attorney can authorize the release of records.
- Cost, as the hospital states it:
- A fee of $6.50 may apply for the portion of the record kept electronically; paper copies up to $0.12 per page plus a $0.90 flat labor fee.
- Time, as the hospital states it:
- Applicable law generally allows between 21 and 30 days to process requests, but it typically doesn't take that long.
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 Johns Hopkins. 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 Johns Hopkins?
Ask for family access to your parent's Johns Hopkins MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). Your parent, as an adult patient, gives consent for your access. Create your own Johns Hopkins MyChart account first. If you have never been a Johns Hopkins patient, you can create a patient record for yourself online. Your parent, age 18 or older, gives consent for you to have access. Johns Hopkins posts step-by-step proxy instructions in English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish on its proxy page. Your parent chooses Full Access (all MyChart features) or Scheduling Only. Either of you can stop the access at any time. If your parent cannot make their own medical decisions, the legal representative completes the Incapacitated Adult Proxy Access form and gives it to a Johns Hopkins staff member with a court order or other legal document. Questions: MyChart help line, 1-800-318-4246.
How do I get copies of my parent's records from Johns Hopkins without the portal?
Ask the Health Information Management (HIM) Department. Download the Authorization for Release of Health Information form for the kind of place your parent was treated: hospitals, community physicians, home care or other providers. Your parent fills it in and signs it, naming you. It must give the dates of service and the type of records needed. On the page, choose the Johns Hopkins facility where your parent was treated to see where to send it. Forms are also available at the facility, or can be mailed, emailed or faxed to you. Picking up copies in person needs photo ID.
How do I keep my parent's Johns Hopkins 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 Johns Hopkins 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 Johns Hopkins Medicine, and its name belongs to it.