Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. If you have young kids, you know the pain: MyChart gives you a separate login for the pediatrician, another for the allergist, a third for the urgent care you used on vacation. None of them talk to each other, and none of them follow your child to a new school district or a new state.
Give your child's pediatrician, specialist, or lab a private @familystork email address. When they send visit summaries, vaccine records, or lab results to that address, everything files into one searchable timeline automatically. No uploading. No portal login. Nothing for the clinic to learn — they already know how to send email.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically. $99/year — or about $10 a month.
MyChart is Epic Systems' patient portal. If your child's pediatrician uses Epic, you can see visit notes and immunization records there. The moment any of these things happen, though, you lose access to part of your child's story:
MyChart shows what one hospital system has. Family Stork keeps what your child has — from every provider, every move, every year.
| Record Type | In MyChart? | In Family Stork? |
|---|---|---|
| Well-child visit summaries | Only from Epic providers | From any clinic that emails |
| Immunization records | Per-system only; won't show shots given elsewhere | One vaccine timeline from every provider |
| Growth charts & milestones | Charted per provider; no combined view | One continuous growth record |
| Allergy test results | Only if allergist is on Epic | From any allergist who emails results |
| School health forms | Not available — schools don't use MyChart | Snap paper forms; AI files them |
| Specialist referral notes | Only within same Epic network | Any specialist, any network |
| Records after a move | Locked to old provider's system | Travel with the child — same email, new state |
Family Stork is built specifically for the problem MyChart creates for families with kids: scattered records across providers. Give each child a private @familystork email address, and every pediatrician, specialist, and lab can send records to one place. No more juggling portal logins. $99/year for the whole family — or about $10 a month.
Family Stork doesn't replace MyChart — it collects what MyChart can't. MyChart shows records from one hospital system. Family Stork collects records from every provider who emails your child's @familystork address — the pediatrician, the allergist, the urgent care, the camp nurse. Use both, or use Family Stork as the single timeline that ties everything together.
Yes. When your child gets vaccinated at any provider — the pediatrician, a pharmacy flu shot, a county health department — each can email the record to the same @familystork address. The result is one complete vaccine timeline, not fragments scattered across portals. For school enrollment, you have everything in one place.
No. Schools don't use MyChart. They hand you paper forms, and you scramble for vaccine records, growth measurements, and physicals from different offices. Family Stork lets you snap paper documents and ask the record any question. When the school needs proof of a physical or a complete immunization history, it's already organized.
Your child's MyChart records stay with the old provider's system. Some transfer through Care Everywhere, but many don't — especially from non-Epic clinics. Family Stork's email address follows your child everywhere. New pediatrician? Give them the same @familystork address. Every record — old state and new — stays in one timeline. See our guide on transferring medical records when moving states.
KeptWell is designed for complex medical situations — uploading pathology reports, managing ongoing treatment plans, organizing documents for a serious diagnosis. It's genuinely good at that. For routine pediatric care — well-visits, vaccines, growth tracking, school forms, the everyday rhythm of keeping a healthy kid's records together — Family Stork's automatic email mechanic is lighter and requires no uploading at all.
MyChart is free but limited to one hospital system per login. Family Stork is $99/year (or about $10/month) and covers every family member, every provider, every record type. One subscription replaces the need to maintain separate portal accounts across your family's healthcare providers.
Many pediatricians, especially in smaller practices, don't use Epic — which means MyChart isn't even an option. Some use Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, or proprietary systems with limited portals. Family Stork works regardless of what software the doctor uses. If they can send email, they can send records to your child's @familystork address. No integration required, nothing for the practice to install.
No single app does everything, and parents trying to escape the MyChart portal pile explore several options. Here's how the main alternatives compare for families with young kids:
See our full 2026 guide to MyChart alternatives for families →
Give any clinic your child's private @familystork address. They send records; the timeline builds itself. No portal logins, no uploads, nothing for the clinic to learn.
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