Short answer: You can't replace your provider's MyChart, but you can add an app that brings records from several providers together in one place. Keep MyChart for messaging your care team, scheduling, results and bills. To combine providers, use MyChart's Happy Together where organizations take part, Apple Health on iPhone, or PatientPower (beyondmychart.com), an independent personal health record app whose Epic MyChart connection is live and was approved for use on 16 September 2026.
MyChart is the patient portal that many health systems license from Epic. Epic's MyChart site lists what it covers, including connecting and sharing, health, messaging, scheduling and appointments, payment and insurance, and MyChart Central, which lets you use one login (your Epic ID) across participating organizations. You can view notes your doctor has recorded and shared with you, and view, download or send a copy of specific visit summaries or your entire health record.
MyChart also links outward. Happy Together lets you see information from healthcare organizations where you have received care in a single view; Care Everywhere lets you authorize your providers to share your record with other healthcare organizations when it is needed for your care; and you can link your account to personal devices and apps, such as Google Fit and Apple Health, to record information like weight, blood pressure or steps.
So the first answer is to use MyChart fully. Turn on the features your health systems support before adding anything else.
Three common ways to see records from more than one provider in one place, compared on what each company's own pages say. 'Not stated' means we could not find it on the company's pages, not that the feature is missing. Checked 18 October 2026.
| MyChart Happy Together | Apple Health (Health Records) | PatientPower | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A MyChart feature from Epic that links your MyChart accounts at different organizations | A feature of the Health app on iPhone, from Apple | An independent app at beyondmychart.com; not affiliated with Epic |
| What you need | A MyChart account at each organization; both organizations must take part, and it may not be available yet on your provider's version of Epic | An iPhone, and your patient portal sign-in at each supporting healthcare organization; not available in all countries or regions | A PatientPower account, plus your MyChart sign-in at each health system you connect |
| Which providers | Organizations that use Epic MyChart and participate in Happy Together | Supporting healthcare organizations; Apple says yours might not appear in the list yet | Health systems that use Epic MyChart and let patients connect apps, including Kaiser Permanente |
| What comes across | Allergies, medications, health issues, visits, test results and care team members | Allergies, medical conditions, medications, labs, vaccinations and more | Conditions, medications, lab results, vital signs, immunizations and visits, as each health system makes them available; allergies are requested but not every health system releases them |
| Providers outside those connections | Care Everywhere lets your providers bring in records from other organizations; uploading other providers' records yourself is not stated. You can link devices and apps such as Apple Health and Google Fit | Add a test result from a provider's QR code or link; enter data into Health categories by hand | Type it in by hand; an AI can read a photo or PDF of a document and list the details for you to enter |
| Messaging, scheduling and bills | Yes, in MyChart | Not stated | Not with your health system; keep using MyChart. Practitioners who use PatientPower can send reminders and encouragement |
| Export your data | In MyChart: view, download or send a copy of visit summaries or your entire health record; download a PDF of results over time | All health and fitness data as an XML file; medication list as a PDF | Everything as a JSON file, or one record type at a time as CSV; print a two-page Visit Packet |
| Selling data and advertising | Epic's patient app privacy policy: 'We do not sell or license your information' | Health app data is not available to Apple's advertising platform or used for advertising | Privacy policy: never sells your health information and never uses it for advertising |
You can use more than one. Happy Together may be all you need if every provider you see uses MyChart and takes part. Apple Health suits people who keep their health data on an iPhone. PatientPower suits people who want one record that also holds records from providers outside MyChart and their own entries, and that they can share with a practitioner category by category.
PatientPower's Epic MyChart connection is live: it was approved for use on 16 September 2026, and patients can connect their MyChart accounts today. That approval does not mean Epic endorses PatientPower.
The gaps are usually not about MyChart doing something badly. They come from what any one portal is designed to hold. Records from a chiropractor, therapist or independent practice may not appear in it, especially if that practice is not connected to the networks your health system exchanges with. Supplements you buy yourself, symptoms you notice between visits and old paper reports often are not captured in a portal unless you or your clinic enter them. Medicare and health-plan claims are held by the payer, not the clinic.
Some people also want one copy of their whole record that they keep, label and share on their own terms, rather than depending on any single account. That is what a personal health record is for: MedlinePlus, from the National Library of Medicine, describes keeping your own personal health record as a good idea for keeping track of information spread across many charts.
Related: How to share your MyChart records with a chiropractor or physical therapist.
Most people need only one or two of these. Pick by the gap you actually have.
| Option | What it adds next to MyChart | What it does not do |
|---|---|---|
| MyChart's own Happy Together and Care Everywhere | One view across organizations that support linking; provider-to-provider sharing you authorize | May not include smaller practices that are not connected, or most things you track yourself |
| A personal health record app (for example PatientPower) | Combines several MyChart accounts and your own entries in one record you can export and share | Does not replace messaging, scheduling or bill pay at your health system |
| Medicare's Blue Button | Lets people with Medicare allow apps to access their Medicare Part A, B and D data | Covers Medicare data only; Medicare Advantage members can also check their plan's patient access API |
| Your health plan's patient access API | Health information through apps you choose, if your plan is one of the payers covered by the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access rule (such as Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, CHIP or federal Marketplace plans) | Employer plans and other payers may not offer it |
| Device and fitness apps linked to MyChart | Home readings such as weight, blood pressure or steps recorded automatically | Not a full medical record |
| A printed visit summary | Something to hand a new clinician or take to an appointment | Goes out of date unless you reprint it |
For a feature-by-feature table of PatientPower, MyChart, Novellia, OneRecord and Apple Health, see PatientPower compared with MyChart, Novellia, OneRecord and Apple Health.
PatientPower is a patient-owned health platform. You can connect MyChart for each of your providers: find your health system, sign in on its own page, choose what to share, see your records with their source, and sync or disconnect at any time. Participating health systems that use Epic MyChart can be connected, including Kaiser Permanente (sign in with your kp.org login). Connected records can include conditions, medications, lab results, vital signs, immunizations and visits, as each health system makes them available. PatientPower also requests allergies, but some health systems do not release every category to apps, so check your allergy list and add anything missing.
For providers outside MyChart, you type information in by hand; an AI can read a photo or PDF of a document and list the details for you to enter. For photographed lab reports, the AI lists each value with its reference range for you to review with your clinician, and prescription or supplement labels can be captured from a photo.
You can ask an AI coach questions about your records in plain language, by voice or text. The coach is for education and visit preparation. It does not give medical advice, and clinical interpretation is left to licensed professionals.
You decide who else sees your record. Beyond your own care team, it is shared only when you grant it, category by category and practitioner by practitioner, with a revoke button you control. You can export your entire vault as a JSON file, or one record type at a time as CSV, and print a two-page Visit Packet. If a practitioner you work with uses PatientPower, their care plan appears as daily actions you can check in against between visits.
PatientPower is not MyChart and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epic Systems Corporation. Keep using MyChart to message your care team, schedule appointments and pay bills at each health system.
PatientPower does not diagnose conditions and is not medical advice. Records you connect may be incomplete, delayed or contain errors, so verify important details with your care team. If a provider's record is wrong, ask that provider to correct it; under 45 CFR 164.526 a covered entity must generally act on an amendment request no later than 60 days after receiving it (one extension of up to 30 days is allowed with written notice, and acting can include a written denial).
When you connect MyChart to an app, a copy of your records goes where you direct it, so what happens to them after that depends on the app's own policies. Read the app's privacy policy before you connect.
The federal Model Privacy Notice is a voluntary template that helps app developers explain their privacy and security practices, much like a nutrition label. These are the questions worth answering, with PatientPower's answers from its privacy policy and Model Privacy Notice.
| Question to ask | PatientPower's answer (from its privacy policy and Model Privacy Notice) |
|---|---|
| Does it sell my health information? | No; it never sells it |
| Does it use my data for advertising or marketing? | No |
| Do I have to authorize each connection? | Yes; you sign in at your provider and explicitly authorize the specific information |
| Can I export and delete my data? | Yes; export at any time, and request deletion at any time |
| Can I revoke access? | Yes, in PatientPower and at the source portal |
| Is my care-plan data used to train AI models? | Individual care-plan data is not used to train or improve AI models |
| How is it protected? | Per its Model Privacy Notice: encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), with role-based access controls and audit logging |
Related: Is it safe to connect third-party apps to MyChart?
First, sign in to each MyChart account you have and turn on Happy Together where it is offered. Second, list the providers that are not on MyChart and download or request their records. Third, if you choose a personal health record app, connect each MyChart account and add the rest by hand. Fourth, check the combined record against what you know, using the government's Get It, Check It, Use It guide as a checklist, and ask your providers to fix anything wrong at the source. Finally, decide who should see what, and revisit those choices when your care team changes.
Related: How to prepare for a doctor visit with your records.
Not as a replacement. MyChart is the portal your health system runs, so messaging, scheduling and bill pay at that health system stay in MyChart. What you can add is an app that brings records from several providers together, such as MyChart's own Happy Together, Apple Health on iPhone, or an independent personal health record app like PatientPower.
Yes. Keep using MyChart to message your care team, schedule appointments, see new results and pay bills at each health system. PatientPower connects to MyChart to bring in a copy of your records alongside records from other sources.
No. PatientPower is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epic. MyChart and Epic are trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation.
Often, yes. Epic's MyChart site says Happy Together lets you see information from healthcare organizations where you have received care in a single view, and that Care Everywhere lets you authorize providers to share your record with other organizations when needed for your care. Whether this works depends on the organizations involved.
Records from providers outside MyChart that you type in yourself; an AI can read a photo or PDF of a document and list the details for you to enter, and a photo of a medication or supplement label can fill in the entry. Everything stays in one vault you can export or share category by category.
No. PatientPower is for education and visit preparation. It explains your records in plain language, and clinical interpretation is left to licensed professionals.
No. Its privacy policy says it accesses only what you authorize, never sells your health information, never uses it for advertising, and lets you export or delete it and revoke access at any time.