Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. MyChart is your provider's window into their system. Family Stork is the record your family owns for life — children, yourself, aging parents. They're not competitors — they're different layers of the same picture. Here's how.
MyChart, built by Epic, is a patient portal. It shows you what one healthcare organization has on file — appointments, test results, immunizations, and messages — for the providers that use Epic's system. It's excellent at what it does.
Family Stork is a lifelong health timeline. It holds records from every provider, every clinic, every city you've lived in — paper records, portal exports, photos of the vaccine card in the kitchen drawer — all on one chronological timeline that belongs to your child.
View test results as soon as they're available from your provider.
Message your care team securely for non-urgent questions.
Schedule appointments within your health system.
See visit summaries and medication lists from that provider.
Request school notes for absences.
Link accounts across multiple Epic-based organizations.
One timeline, all providers. Records from every clinic, hospital, and specialist — not just one system.
Paper + digital. Snap photos of paper records; the AI files dates, values, and details.
Records-inbox email. Give it to any clinic. They send summaries; the timeline files them.
Ask questions. "When was her last tetanus shot?" Answers grounded in your child's actual records.
Emergency card. One tap — shareable, printable, revocable.
Ownership transfers at 18. Your child walks into adulthood carrying their full history.
This is where the difference shows. Move across town, change insurance, age out of pediatrics, or switch to a specialist outside your health system. Your MyChart history stays with that system. You can download records — but nobody reassembles them into a continuous story for you.
Family Stork doesn't replace MyChart. It holds the pieces that MyChart can't — the records from the pediatrician you left two years ago, the allergy test from the out-of-network specialist, the growth chart printout from the old clinic. One continuous timeline, regardless of which portal issued the data.
Family Stork also supports MyChart Connect — connect supported hospital portals directly so records flow into the family timeline alongside everything else. Many hospitals, one record.
Check test results, message the doctor, schedule the next visit. MyChart is the day-to-day interface with your child's current care team. It's good at that.
Feed records from MyChart — and every other source — into Family Stork. The records-inbox email, paper snapshots, and portal exports all land on one timeline. When you switch providers, nothing is lost.
MyChart doesn't transfer ownership to your child. Family Stork does. Eighteen years of health history, in their hands, for life.
Your parent sees a cardiologist at one hospital, an orthopedist at another, and a primary care doctor somewhere else. Each one has its own MyChart login. No portal shows the complete picture. When your parent is discharged and you need the medication list, the allergy history, and the last three lab results — you're logging into three separate portals and copy-pasting into a spreadsheet.
Family Stork gives your parent one private @families.familystork.com address. Every provider emails records to it. Siblings share access without sharing passwords. The emergency card is always current, always printable.
MyChart is a portal. Family Stork is a record. One shows you what your current provider knows. The other holds everything — across every provider, every year, every chapter of your family's health story. You probably need both. For a deeper look at why portals aren't health records, see why your pediatrician's portal isn't your child's health record.
Give any clinic the private @families.familystork.com address shown on each person's record. They send records; the timeline builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.
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