With My Seton Health, you have access to:
With a patient portal, you can:
Secure internet sites (patient portals) managed by your health plan, hospitals, or other healthcare professionals are another tool for organizing and storing medical records. A patient portal is a secure website through your doctor’s office, hospital, or other health systems that allows you to view your health and medical information.
What is a patient portal? A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient, 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an Internet connection. Using a secure username and password, patients can view health information such as:
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.
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.