Parent portal access · WA
Your parent’s results and records at UW Medicine
How to see your parent’s MyChart account with your own login, and how to keep the results in one place.
From UW Medicine’s own pages, checked on November 4, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s 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 UW Medicine: the patient sends a Proxy Access Invitation from their own account.
- 1Your parent signs in to MyChart and opens the Friends and Family Access page.
- 2Your parent sends you a Proxy Access Invitation.
- 3You view your parent's record by first signing in to your own MyChart account.
- 4If your parent has limited capacity and you hold their medical power of attorney, access may be set up at a clinic visit by their clinician with valid legal documents.
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 UW Medicine. 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 UW Medicine?
Ask for family access to your parent's MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient sends a Proxy Access Invitation from their own account. Your parent signs in to MyChart and opens the Friends and Family Access page. Your parent sends you a Proxy Access Invitation. You view your parent's record by first signing in to your own MyChart account. If your parent has limited capacity and you hold their medical power of attorney, access may be set up at a clinic visit by their clinician with valid legal documents.
How do I keep my parent's UW Medicine 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 UW Medicine 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 UW Medicine, and its name belongs to it.