What is a patient portal Penn State?
Patient Portal Our patient portals are a convenient way to securely view your personal health information and interact with Penn State Health. They play a key role in your heath care - providing a 24/7 connection to the information you need to make better decisions.
How do I get remote access to my Pa state health portal?
Open an internet browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox). Go to access.pennstatehealth.net. Call the IT Service Desk at 833-577-4357 to obtain temporary login information. Enter this information in the fields on the remote access portal page. This is how the remote access login screen should appear.
How do I sign up for the Health Information Management Portal?
Parents and caregivers of younger patients should contact our Health Information Management team at 717-531-1697 to sign up for portal access (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays).
Why do I need an account to use the patient portal?
We encourage all of our patients to create an account to ensure you have ready access to your personal health information. It is a convenient, secure website that makes it easy to communicate with your physicians, pay bills, and make appointments. Which Patient Portal Should I Use?
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What is an account request form?
Account Request Form - provides the Health Information Management team the information needed to provide an individual access to the Provider Portal.
What is access confidentiality agreement?
Access and Confidentiality Agreement - the Access and Confidentiality Agreement defines the responsibilities and obligations of each party in regard to Penn State Health’s clinical information system. To be signed by one of the practice partners with signatory authority.
What is a provider list?
Provider List - outlines all providers (MD/DO/CRNP/PA/APCs) who are required to have their patients available on the Provider Portal. If your providers see patients at multiple locations, please add and identify those locations. If your practice utilizes direct secure email addresses, please also provide the provider’s direct secure email address. Direct secure email addresses allow us to also securely send you Patient Health Information (PHI). If you currently do not have direct secure email addresses and are interested, see your certified EHR software vendor. For more information, see https://www.directtrust.org/what-we-do, Direct Secure Messaging section.
What is Penn State Health?
My Penn State Health is a convenient, secure website that makes it easy to communicate with your physicians, pay bills, and make appointments. Learn how to sign up and use this service to manage your health care records.
How to join the Health Portal?
If you registered during your office visit, you should receive an email "invitation" to join the health portal. The link in this email message will take you to your registration information. If you do not see the message in your email inbox, you may want to check the junk or spam folder to see if it is there.
How to create a Hershey account?
You can create your account online using the Self-Enroll process. Or you may sign up with the office staff during any visit to the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center or one of our Medical Group locations.
Can parents get a copy of medical records from Penn State?
As always, parents and guardians can contact their family physician to discuss their child's medical situation, and can contact Penn State Hershey Medical Records office to obtain paper copies of medical records by providing proper identification.
When can a child access their medical records?
On the child's 18th birthday , parental or guardian access to online medical records will be terminated. The child will be able to initiate their own account for access to their electronic health record during their next office visit. Federal HIPAA law requires privacy of health records at age 18.
When is parental access terminated?
parental access is terminated on the child's 18th birthday per Federal HIPAA law. See next question for details.
When is consent required for a patient?
parents of patients up to age 14 - consent from the child is required after their 14th birthday if they do not wish to have their own account, but provide the parents with access. See next question for details.
What is a patient portal?
Our patient portals are a convenient way to securely view your personal health information and interact with Penn State Health. They play a key role in your heath care - providing a 24/7 connection to the information you need to make better decisions. We encourage all of our patients to create an account to ensure you have ready access to your personal health information. It is a convenient, secure website that makes it easy to communicate with your physicians, pay bills, and make appointments.
Does Holy Spirit Medical Center use MyChart?
Patients of Holy Spirit Medical Center, or any of their outpatient clinics, will use MyChart as their patient portal. View participating clinics.
Access the Patient Portal
A convenient, secure website that makes it easy to communicate with your physicians, pay bills, and make appointments.
Find Care Close to Me
Penn State Health provides a full range of outpatient and inpatient diagnostic, medical and surgical services throughout our health system.
Make an Appointment
Penn State Health provides various options for scheduling, cancelling or changing an appointment.
External Reviewers: How to Work in PowerChart
External reviewers should follow these directions the first time they need to access PowerChart on site at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center after their account has been created.
Troubleshooting
For help logging in to PowerChart and accessing the patient list for the first time, or for other PowerChart questions, call Barb Twigger at 717-531-0003, ext. 287486.
