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Your parent’s results and records at Penn
How to see your parent’s MyChart by myPennMedicine account with your own login, and how to keep the results in one place.
From Penn Medicine’s own pages, checked on November 2, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s MyChart by myPennMedicine 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 Penn: the patient sends the invitation from their own account.
- 1Your parent logs in and selects Sharing Hub from the main menu.
- 2They select the family member, close friend or caretaker option, then choose to manage ongoing access.
- 3They email you an invitation.
- 4You do not need to be a Penn Medicine patient, but you must create an account before you accept.
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 Penn. 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 Penn?
Ask for family access to your parent's MyChart by myPennMedicine account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient sends the invitation from their own account. Your parent logs in and selects Sharing Hub from the main menu. They select the family member, close friend or caretaker option, then choose to manage ongoing access. They email you an invitation. You do not need to be a Penn Medicine patient, but you must create an account before you accept.
How do I keep my parent's Penn 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 Penn 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 Penn Medicine, and its name belongs to it.