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Your parent’s results and records at UC Davis

How to see your parent’s MyUCDavisHealth account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.

From UC Davis Health’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.

See your parent’s MyUCDavisHealth 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 UC Davis: you request access, and the patient signs the authorization.

  1. 1This page limits access to a spouse, parent, guardian or legal patient representative. An adult child may need to qualify as the legal representative, so confirm this first.
  2. 2You must be at least 18. Legal documents may be required, such as a health care power of attorney or guardianship papers.
  3. 3Online route: log in to your own account and complete the record authorization form under Access Settings.
  4. 4Paper route: complete the authorization form. Your parent and you both sign it.
  5. 5Send the paper form to Health Information Management by mail, fax or email.
  6. 6Allow 15 days.
UC Davis Health’s official page

Get copies without the portal

From the Health Information Management (Release of Information Unit).

  1. 1Fill in the Authorization for Release of Health Information form, on paper or with the online e-sign link on the page. Your parent signs it and names you.
  2. 2Send it by email to roi@health.ucdavis.edu or by fax to 916-734-2126, as listed on the form. Walk-in service is not offered.
  3. 3On the form, choose email delivery to get electronic copies.
  4. 4If your parent cannot sign, send legal papers such as a medical power of attorney.
Family members:
If the patient is unable to sign, legal documentation will be required (Medical Power of Attorney, etc). The patient representative does not have to be a UC Davis patient.
Cost, as the hospital states it:
The form says: Fees may apply for copies of your records.

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.
US Department of Health and Human Services

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 UC Davis. Paper copies work too: take a photo of each page.

Vita Health Coach on the App Store

Questions

How do I see my parent's results at UC Davis?

Ask for family access to your parent's MyUCDavisHealth account (hospitals call it proxy access). You request access, and the patient signs the authorization. This page limits access to a spouse, parent, guardian or legal patient representative. An adult child may need to qualify as the legal representative, so confirm this first. You must be at least 18. Legal documents may be required, such as a health care power of attorney or guardianship papers. Online route: log in to your own account and complete the record authorization form under Access Settings. Paper route: complete the authorization form. Your parent and you both sign it. Send the paper form to Health Information Management by mail, fax or email. Allow 15 days.

How do I get copies of my parent's records from UC Davis without the portal?

Ask the Health Information Management (Release of Information Unit). Fill in the Authorization for Release of Health Information form, on paper or with the online e-sign link on the page. Your parent signs it and names you. Send it by email to roi@health.ucdavis.edu or by fax to 916-734-2126, as listed on the form. Walk-in service is not offered. On the form, choose email delivery to get electronic copies. If your parent cannot sign, send legal papers such as a medical power of attorney.

How do I keep my parent's UC Davis 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 UC Davis 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 UC Davis Health, and its name belongs to it.