UW Medicine MyChart is a free, secure and convenient way to access many types of personal health information in your inpatient and outpatient medical records, including test results, medical history, medications, immunizations and more.
If you need more information than you can find in MyChart, you can easily request copies of your UW Medicine medical records and radiology images.
Patient confidentiality
When requesting records on behalf of a patient, please include a copy of your Power of Attorney. To read more about how UW Medicine protects and discloses your information, please review the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices.
Medical records
Option 1: Request a copy of your medical records via MyChart. When requesting through MyChart, a copy of your medical records will be released to MyChart and will be available for viewing/downloading for 30 days from the received date. Please allow 15 business days to process your request.
Option 2: Complete and sign a Patient Authorization to Disclose, Release and/or Obtain Protected Health Information.
Mail, fax or email your authorization form or request to the location where you received care (see below). Please allow 15 business days to process your request.
For Care Received At:
Eastside Specialty Center
Hall Health Center
Harborview Medical Center
UW Medical Center – Montlake
UW Medical Center – Roosevelt
UW Medicine Primary Care
UW Medical Center – Northwest
Send your request to:
Mail:
1959 N.E. Pacific St.
Box 354914
Seattle, WA 98195
Fax or email:
All of the above facilities
Phone: 206.744.9000
Fax: 206.744.9997
Email: uwmedroi@uw.edu
For Care Received At UW Valley Medical Center:
Send your request to:
Mail:
400 S. 43rd St.
PO Box 50010
Renton, WA 98055
Phone: 425.690.3406
Fax: 425.690.9407
Email: recordsrequest@valleymed.org
You can now pay for your medical records online through our UW Medicine Medical Records Invoice Payment Portal via credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express).
Reference the medical records invoice to pay online and include the following:
- Requestor Email Address*
- Requestor Name/Company Name*
- Release ID*
- Invoice Number*
- Patient Last Name*
- Person Authorized This Payment*
- Comment (Optional)
For any questions, or a refund requests for medical records, contact uwmedroi@uw.edu or 206.744.9000.
If you believe there is an error in your medical record, you may request an amendment by completing the Request for Correction or Amendment of the Medical Record.
For Care Received At:
Eastside Specialty Center
Hall Health Center
Harborview Medical Center
UW Medical Center – Montlake
UW Medical Center – Roosevelt
UW Medical Center – Northwest
UW Medicine Primary Care
Send your request to:
Mail:
1959 N.E. Pacific St.
Box 354914
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206.744.9010, Option #3
Fax: 206.520.3195
Email: erhiccpi@uw.edu
For Care Received At:
Valley Medical Center
Send your request to:
Mail:
400 S. 43rd St.
PO Box 50010
Renton, WA 98055
Phone: 425.690.3406
Fax: 425.690.9407
Email: recordsrequest@valleymed.org
Sign up for MyChart to see your outpatient and inpatient records online. Login to the MyChart patient portal to access your medical records from your clinic visits or hospital stays at Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center – Montlake, UW Medical Center – Northwest, UW Medicine Primary Care and other UW Medicine affiliated clinics. Not all of your medical records are available through MyChart.
To request additional medical records, contact the location where you received care (see below). Please allow 15 business days to process your request.
If you have records at Valley Medical Center, go to Valley’s MyChart to access your medical records online.
For Care Received At:
Eastside Specialty Center
Hall Health Center
Harborview Medical Center
UW Medical Center – Montlake
UW Medical Center – Roosevelt
UW Medicine Primary Care
UW Medical Center – Northwest
Send your request to:
Phone: 206.744.9000
Fax: 206.744.9997
Email: uwmedroi@uw.edu
For Care Received At:
Valley Medical Center
Send your request to:
Mail:
400 S. 43rd St.
PO Box 50010
Renton, WA 98055
Phone: 425.690.3406
Fax: 425.690.9407
Email: recordsrequest@valleymed.org
If you are not the patient, we will need you to provide more information about your right to receive the records of someone else.
We may ask for items like a Power of Attorney or, if the patient is deceased, a death certificate.
For help with your request, call the Enterprise Records and Health Information or Health Information Management number affiliated with the location you received care (see below).
For Care Received At
Eastside Specialty Center
Hall Health Center
Harborview Medical Center
UW Medical Center – Montlake
UW Medical Center – Roosevelt
UW Medicine Primary Care
UW Medical Center – Northwest
Send your request to:
Phone: 206.744.9000
Fax: 206.744.9997
Email: uwmedroi@uw.edu
Continuity of care (medical records sent to a physician, clinic, hospital or other healthcare provider: No charge.
For reasons other than continuity of care there may be a reasonable, cost-based fee Review our Release of Information Fee Schedule for 2024 for more information.
Contact the King County Vital Statistics for birth and death certificates at 206.897.5100 or visit the Washington State Department of Health for more information.
UW Medicine uses an electronic health record called Epic that is certified by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Certification Program. The ONC Certification Program requires that electronic health information (EHI) stored in Epic to be made available to patients in a machine-readable format commonly referred to as “EHI Export.” To learn more about what an EHI Export would contain, or to request this, please use this form: Patient Authorization to Release a Machine-Readable Export of Protected Health Information.
Radiology images
Complete and sign a Patient Authorization to Disclose, Release and/or Obtain Protected Health Information form.
Mail, fax or email your signed authorization form and images request to the location where you received care (see below):
UW Medical Center – Montlake Radiology Records
4333 Brooklyn Ave NE
Box 359426
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206.598.6206
Fax: 206.598.7690
Email: radrecs@uw.edu
Harborview Medical Center Radiology
Mailbox: 359738
325 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206.744.6730
Fax: 206.744.6374
UW Medical Center - Northwest Radiology
1550 N 115th St., 2nd Floor
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone: 206.668.1748
Fax: 206.668.1398