Your parent’s results and records at Northwestern

See your parent’s MyNM 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 Northwestern: the patient invites you in MyNM, or a proxy form is submitted.

1. 1If your parent uses MyNM, they invite you with the Share My Record function.
2. 2If your parent does not use MyNM, complete the MyNM Adult Proxy Request form.
3. 3The form comes in English, Spanish, Polish and Arabic.

Get copies without the portal

From the Health Information Management – Release of Information.

1. 1Download the Authorization for Release of Medical Information form and fill in all fields.
2. 2Your parent signs it by hand and names you to receive the records. Records sent to someone other than the patient need a written signature.
3. 3Send it by fax (312.926.3093), email (releaseofinformation@nm.org) or mail, as the page lists.
4. 4Ask for PDF copies by secure email. Questions: 877.973.2673.

Family members:

The online request tool is only for the patient's own records. Others who can sign: a court-appointed guardian or a health care agent named on a power of attorney for health care, with documentation.

Cost, as the hospital states it:

No charge for records sent directly to the patient or to another medical professional. If records go to someone who is not a medical professional, that person may be billed.

The records office pageThe request form

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