MyChart Access for Minors
What is Proxy Access?
Overview
Proxy access allows a person to access another person's MyChart account. Typically, parents will use this to access their child's account so they can schedule appointments, check immunizations, request medications, and coordinate other health-related information for their child. Adults may also use it to access an older parent or relative's record.
What Types of Proxy are There?
Limited Access:
- See upcoming appointments
- See billing information and make copays if the proxy is an account guarantor
Full Access:
- See all appointments and after visit summaries
- View test results and health issues
- See billing information and make copays
- Schedule appointments and complete online check-in
Who Can Be a Proxy?
For Children Age 0-12:
- Parents or guardians of a child can have full access
For Children Age 13-17:
- Parents or guardians of a child can have limited access
For Adults:
- Trusted relatives of a patient with their own MyChart account can have full access
- Legal representatives of a patient who is not able to make their own medical decisions due to developmental delays or other cognitive disabilities can have full access.
Who Cannot Be a Proxy?
- Foster Parent to Child
- Non-custodial parent (step-parent for example) to child
- Adult to Adult Patient where the patient does not have their own MyChart account
How to Request Proxy Access for a Child Age 0-12 Years Old or Applicable Adult
A parent or guardian with a MyChart account who would like to gain access to their child's, or applicable adult's, medical information can:
- Log in to MyChart.
- Click on the menu button.
- Click "Request Proxy Access".
- Fill out the form with your child’s information.
- Click "Submit".
- Your request will be sent to our Genesis Health Information Management Department (HIM).
- Once your request has been processed, you will be contacted by someone in our HIM Department.
- If you are in the office, you will follow your provider’s process for access.
How to Grant Proxy Access for Individual Age 13 and Older
Patients with a MyChart account who would like to give someone access to their MyChart information can:
- Log in to MyChart.
- Click on the menu button.
- Click "Grant Proxy Access".
- Click on "Invite Someone".
- Fill out the form with your proxy's information.
- Click "Send Invite".