Short answer: Three common options: use MyChart's Share Everywhere to give the practitioner a one-time code to view your record, if your health system offers it; bring a printout or downloaded copy of your visit summary or record; or keep your records in a personal health record app such as PatientPower (beyondmychart.com), where you choose which categories a practitioner can see and for how long. You can also ask your doctor's office to send records to the practitioner. Each option has limits, covered below.
If your health system turns it on, MyChart's Share Everywhere is usually the quickest. You create a share code in MyChart, and the chiropractor enters it with your date of birth on Epic's Share Everywhere website for one-time, temporary access to your health information. If they need a copy to keep, bring a printout or download, or share selected categories from a personal health record app such as PatientPower.
Your MyChart account is run by your health system. Clinicians at your health system use the same record, and Epic's MyChart help says Care Everywhere lets your provider securely access and update your record from other healthcare organizations, where both take part. A chiropractor or physical therapist in an independent practice may not be connected to the networks your health system exchanges with, so their office may not see your imaging reports, medication list or the referral notes from your doctor unless someone sends them.
You can ask your doctor's office to send the referral and relevant records directly to the practitioner; they may ask you to sign a form. You also have a legal right to a copy of your own records. Under the HIPAA access rule (45 CFR 164.524), a covered health care provider must generally act on your request within 30 days, with one extension of up to 30 more days if they tell you in writing why and when, and provide the copy in the form and format you ask for if it is readily producible. The options below are usually faster than a formal records request.
Share Everywhere is a MyChart feature from Epic. Menu names vary by health system; at many, you open the Share My Record or Share Everywhere activity in MyChart, choose to give one-time access, and enter the practitioner's name to get a share code. The practitioner goes to shareeverywhere.com and enters the code together with your date of birth.
According to Epic's Share Everywhere FAQ, the practitioner sees a subset of the information you can see in your own MyChart account, such as medications, allergies, lab results and visit records; anything your health system has not released to MyChart will not appear. The practitioner can write a note that is sent back to the health system that issued the code and filed to your chart, but that health system cannot reply through Share Everywhere, so the practitioner should include contact details in the note.
Limits: your health system has to turn the feature on; if you do not see it, Epic's FAQ says to contact your healthcare organization. A share code is valid only until it is used, up to 60 minutes, and is cancelled after three wrong date-of-birth entries. The practitioner can view your record only until they log out, and a new visit needs a new code. Some health systems set shorter limits; one health system's page says its codes expire within 5 minutes and access ends 20 minutes after the practitioner logs in. Create the code while the practitioner is with you.
Epic's MyChart site says you can view, download or send a copy of specific visit summaries or your entire health record. A printed or downloaded visit summary, imaging report or medication list is something you can hand to a chiropractor or physical therapist, who can then keep it in their own file.
Limits: a printout goes out of date as soon as something changes, and you have to reprint it. It usually covers only the health system you printed it from. A full record download can be long, so a practitioner may find it easier to start with the documents they ask for, such as the referral, the imaging report and your current medications. Treat paper and downloaded files as sensitive: once you hand over a copy, you no longer control it.
PatientPower is a personal health record app. You connect each Epic MyChart account through your health system's own MyChart sign-in page, and add records from providers outside MyChart by importing a file, photographing a document or typing them in. Each record from MyChart shows which health system it came from and when it was last synced.
If your chiropractor or physical therapist uses PatientPower, you find them in the PatientPower directory and choose which categories they can see, such as medications, labs and conditions, and for how long. Family history is never shared unless you tick it yourself. You can revoke access at any time, and the practitioner sees only the categories you granted.
If the practitioner is not on PatientPower, you can send them a private link to a read-only, printable summary of the categories you choose and set how long the link stays open. The link shows categories such as your medications, conditions and labs, including those imported from MyChart. It does not yet show allergies, immunizations or visit history, and it shows only vital signs you entered yourself, not those from MyChart, so tell the practitioner about allergies directly or bring a printout. You can also print a two-page Visit Packet or the one-page Summary, or export your record as a JSON or CSV file.
Limits: directory sharing only works with practitioners who use PatientPower. Records from MyChart arrive only in the categories your health system makes available to apps and you approve, and not every category arrives from every connection, so check your lists and add anything missing. They are only as current as your last sync, and syncing stops when the access period you approved at your health system ends; after that, connect again. Revoking access stops further viewing, but it cannot undo what a practitioner has already read, printed or written into their own notes. Records you import may be incomplete, delayed or contain errors, so verify important details with your care team.
The table summarizes what each option does, using Epic's Share Everywhere FAQ, Epic's MyChart site and PatientPower's features page.
| MyChart Share Everywhere | Printout or download | PatientPower category sharing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the practitioner gets | One-time, temporary access to a subset of what your MyChart account shows | A copy they can keep | A continuing view of the categories you grant, as of your last sync, or a read-only link |
| What it covers | What your MyChart account shows; notes go back to the health system that issued the code | What you print or download | Each MyChart you connect plus files and entries you add; the read-only link does not yet show allergies and some other categories |
| You choose what is shared | Not described in Epic's FAQ; the viewer sees a subset of your record | Yes, by choosing what to print | Yes, category by category |
| How long it lasts | Code valid up to 60 minutes until used; access ends at log-out | Permanently; the practitioner keeps the copy | For as long as you choose, with revoke |
| Practitioner can send information back | A note filed to your chart at the issuing health system | Not through the printout | If they use PatientPower, they can release visit notes and a care plan to you; not through the read-only link |
| Main limit | Your health system must turn it on | Goes out of date | Directory sharing needs the practitioner to use PatientPower |
For a single first visit, Share Everywhere or a printout of your referral and imaging report is often enough. If you see a chiropractor or physical therapist over many weeks, or your records are spread across several health systems, one record you keep and share category by category saves bringing new paper to each visit.
You do not have to share your whole history. A physical therapist treating a knee after surgery may mainly need the operative report, the imaging report and your current medication list. Ask the practitioner what they need, and tell them about any medicines, allergies or conditions that could affect treatment. PatientPower is for education and organization; it does not diagnose conditions and is not medical advice.
Epic, MyChart, Share Everywhere and Care Everywhere are trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation. PatientPower is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epic.
If your health system offers it, use MyChart's Share Everywhere: create a share code in MyChart and give it to the chiropractor, who enters it with your date of birth on Epic's Share Everywhere website. For a copy they can keep, bring a printout or download, or share selected categories from PatientPower.
Not always. A physical therapist who works for your health system, or whose practice exchanges records with it, may already see some of your records. An independent practice often cannot. If yours can't, you can give them a one-time Share Everywhere code, bring a printout or download, ask your doctor's office to send records, or share selected categories with them in PatientPower.
Epic's FAQ says a code is valid only until it is used, up to 60 minutes, and the practitioner can view your record only until they log out. Some health systems set shorter limits, so create the code while the practitioner is with you.
Epic's FAQ says to contact your healthcare organization; each health system decides whether to turn the feature on. Meanwhile, you can download or print your visit summaries or record from MyChart.
In PatientPower, yes: you choose which categories a practitioner can see, such as medications, labs and conditions, and for how long, and family history is never shared unless you tick it. With a printout, you choose what to print. Epic's FAQ does not describe choosing categories in Share Everywhere.
You can send them a private link to a read-only, printable summary of the categories you choose and set how long it stays open, or print a two-page Visit Packet to bring to the appointment. The link does not yet show allergies and some other categories, so tell the practitioner about them directly.
In PatientPower you can revoke a practitioner's access at any time, which stops further viewing. No option can undo what a practitioner has already read, printed or written into their own notes, and a printout you handed over stays with them.
Under the HIPAA access rule (45 CFR 164.524), a covered health care provider must generally act on your request within 30 days, with one extension of up to 30 more days if they tell you in writing why and when. Downloading from MyChart is usually faster.