One view of the record
Medications, lab results, conditions, allergies, immunizations and recent visits from your connected health system, together, instead of spread across portal tabs.
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You were handed a record written for someone else.
A discharge summary, a medication list, a page of lab values. Written accurately, for a clinician, and then given to the family member who has to help afterwards. Most of what makes that hard is not medical, it is the language. Sahara is a free, read-only view of an authorized MyChart-connected record, with plain-language MedlinePlus education in English and Spanish.
Free. Information only, never medical advice.
What it does
What does Sahara show a caregiver?
Sahara shows medications, lab results, conditions, allergies, immunizations and recent visits from your connected health system in one view, with supported items linked to general material from MedlinePlus in English and Spanish.
Plain-language education
Supported medications, tests and conditions are linked to general material from MedlinePlus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine, in English and Spanish.
Better questions for the visit
Knowing what a term means makes the next appointment more useful. The goal is to help you ask, not to answer in your clinician's place.
The line
Will it tell me what a result means?
Sahara does not tell you what your results mean, whether a value is normal, whether a medication is right for you, or whether a symptom needs attention. Education is matched to the standardized code for a test or medication, never to your particular numbers, so two people with the same test see the same explanation.
That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature. How we source and bound this is written down in the editorial policy.
For an emergency or urgent symptom, call your local emergency number.
Getting access
How do I get access to a loved one's MyChart record?
You connect using your own patient portal sign-in. To view a parent's or partner's record you need the proxy access their health system grants, which is a request you make to the provider. Our guide on caregiver access to a loved one's record walks through it.
Access is read-only and you can disconnect at any time. What is held and for how long is in the privacy overview.