In most of Europe and in the United States you can already see a good part of your health records online: a national or regional patient portal shows your prescriptions, many of your test results, your vaccinations and the letters from public hospitals. What no portal shows is the whole picture, because each one covers one country, one region or one provider. This guide explains where your health records are online, how the login works, what you will and will not find there, and how to keep everything, from every portal and every private clinic, in one personal health record that is yours.
Where your health records are online, by country
| Where | The portal | What you usually see | How you log in |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | NHS App (also on the web) | GP record, repeat prescriptions, test results ordered by your GP, vaccinations, hospital appointments | NHS login (photo ID and a selfie the first time) |
| Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland | Separate services; the NHS App covers England | Varies by nation; prescriptions and appointments first | The nation's own login |
| Germany | elektronische Patientenakte (ePA), inside your health insurer's app | Medication list, doctor's letters and findings uploaded by your doctors, since 2025 for everyone insured who did not opt out | Your insurer's app with your health card PIN or a GesundheitsID |
| France | Mon espace santé (which contains the DMP) | Documents sent by doctors, laboratories and hospitals, medication, vaccinations, a secure messaging inbox | Your social security number plus an identity check, or FranceConnect |
| Italy | Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico (FSE), run by each region | Prescriptions, lab and imaging reports from the public system, vaccinations, discharge letters | SPID or the electronic ID card (CIE) |
| Spain | Each region's health portal (La Meva Salut in Catalonia, the Basque Carpeta de Salud and others) | Appointments, prescriptions, reports from the public health service | Cl@ve or the regional health card credentials |
| Poland | Internetowe Konto Pacjenta (IKP) on pacjent.gov.pl | E-prescriptions, e-referrals, vaccinations, visits paid by the public insurer, sick notes | Trusted Profile (Profil Zaufany), mObywatel or your bank's identity |
| Other EU countries | A national portal in most member states; MyHealth@EU is slowly connecting them for prescriptions and patient summaries across borders | At least e-prescriptions; often results and summaries | The national electronic identity |
| United States | The patient portal of each hospital or practice (MyChart and others); Medicare's Blue Button for claims | Visit notes, test results, medications, messages with the practice. Since the 21st Century Cures Act, providers must give you electronic access to your record without blocking it | A separate account per provider, created from an invitation code or at the front desk |
| Turkey | e-Nabız | Test results, prescriptions, reports and appointments from the public system | e-Devlet login |
Two things are true everywhere. First, the portal belongs to a system, not to you: it shows what that system did. Second, what it shows is real and useful, so the first step to a complete record is to open the portal you have, look at what is there and download it.
What you will find online, and what you will not
Expect to find prescriptions, laboratory results from the public system (sometimes with a delay of a few days so that the doctor sees them first), vaccinations, referrals, discharge letters and appointments. Imaging reports are usually there as text; the images themselves often come separately, on a disc or through a link from the radiology department.
Expect not to find: results from private laboratories and clinics that are not connected to the public system; anything from another country, even inside the EU, unless MyHealth@EU already links the two systems; your older paper records; what you measure at home, like blood pressure, weight or glucose; your symptoms; the over-the-counter medicines you take; dental and optician records in many countries. For most people this missing part is large, and it is exactly the part a doctor who does not know you would want to see.
Health record login: how access works
Every portal verifies your identity once, properly, and then lets you in with a password, an app or a code. The common patterns:
- A national electronic identity, such as SPID in Italy, FranceConnect in France, Profil Zaufany in Poland or Cl@ve in Spain. If you already use it for taxes or benefits, the same identity opens the health portal.
- A health-specific login, such as NHS login in England, created with a photo of an identity document and a short video of your face.
- Your insurer or provider, as in Germany, where the ePA lives in the health insurer's app, or in the US, where each practice gives you an invitation to its own portal.
If you cannot complete the identity check online, every system has a route through a desk: the GP surgery, the pharmacy, the insurer's office or the hospital's registration counter. Ask for "access to my record online".
Most portals also allow proxy access: a parent for a child, an adult for an older parent, with the person's consent or a legal document. It is worth setting up before you need it.
Medical records online, free: what you are entitled to
Looking at your records through the public portal is free everywhere listed above. Beyond the portal, you have a legal right to a copy of your complete record:
- In the EU and the UK, under Article 15 of the GDPR, a first copy is free and must arrive within one month, extendable to three for complex requests. Your medical data in the European Union explains the right and the EHDS rules that build on it.
- In the US, under HIPAA, you can ask for an electronic copy and the provider may charge only a reasonable, cost-based fee; many portals let you download it for nothing.
If a clinic or a private laboratory has no portal, a short written request is enough. The free medical records request letter fills one in for you, and how to transfer your medical records to a new doctor covers what to ask for so the next doctor can actually use it.
Keeping all your health records online, in one place
The portals solve the "where is it" problem for one system each. A personal health record online solves it for you: a record you control, that imports from every portal and every clinic you pass through, and adds what no portal has, your home measurements, your symptoms, your documents from other countries. What a personal health record is explains the idea; here is how it works in practice.
- Download from each portal. Most offer PDF export of letters and results, and some offer a structured export (the International Patient Summary, or a FHIR bundle). Save them.
- Add them to your own record. In a medical records app such as Anpheros Daily, you add a document by uploading the PDF or scanning the paper; lab reports are read into values with units and reference ranges, so you can see the trend over years instead of a pile of PDFs. Medications, allergies, conditions and vaccinations go into the structured record.
- Add what the portals never had. Private results, blood pressure measured at home, your symptoms, the medicines you buy without a prescription.
- Let clinics write directly, with your consent. Clinics and laboratories connected to the Anpheros platform can send results straight into your record after you approve the request, for a purpose and a period you choose; you see every access and can revoke it.
- Share back. A one-page summary or a full export (FHIR, IPS) for any doctor, in any country, instead of logging into three portals in front of them.
To be clear about the limits: Anpheros Daily does not log into national portals on your behalf and does not pull data from them automatically; you export and add. The Basic plan is free; family profiles, data from your watch and the AI assistant are in the Plus and Max plans. The record is stored as HL7 FHIR R4 in the European Union and you can export it at any time. The free health summary viewer reads an IPS or FHIR export in the browser, if you only want to look at one.
How to start, in fifteen minutes
- Open the portal for your country from the table above and complete the identity check.
- Download the last two years of letters and test results.
- Check the medication list against what you actually take, and note the differences.
- Add the files and the corrected medication list to your personal record.
- Set up proxy access for a child or a parent if you look after one.
Frequently asked questions
How do I access my health record online?
Through your country's or region's patient portal: the NHS App in England, your insurer's ePA app in Germany, Mon espace santé in France, the regional FSE in Italy, IKP in Poland, your region's portal in Spain, and each provider's patient portal in the United States. You verify your identity once, with a national electronic ID or a photo of an identity document, then log in with a password or an app.
Are medical records online free?
Yes. Viewing your records through the public portals is free, and a first copy of your full record is free under the GDPR in the EU and the UK. In the US a provider may charge only a cost-based fee for a copy, and most portals let you download your record at no cost.
What is a health record login?
The identity you use to open a health portal: NHS login in England, SPID or CIE in Italy, FranceConnect in France, Profil Zaufany in Poland, Cl@ve in Spain, your insurer's app in Germany, a per-provider account in the US. It is created once with an identity check and reused after that.
Can I see my medical records online from another country?
Partly. Each national portal shows only that country's records. MyHealth@EU is connecting EU systems so that a pharmacy or doctor abroad can see your prescriptions and a patient summary, but coverage is still limited. The practical answer is to keep your own copy in a personal health record that travels with you.
Is there a health records online app that keeps everything together?
Yes: a personal health record app. You export from each portal and add the documents, then add what the portals do not have. Anpheros Daily is one such app, with a free Basic plan, structured lab values, a medication list, an emergency card and export in standard formats; test it against the same criteria as any other.
What is the difference between the national portal and a personal health record online?
The portal is run by a health system and shows what that system did; you cannot add to it or take it with you when you move. A personal health record is controlled by you, combines every source and includes home measurements and symptoms. The two complement each other: the portal is a source, the personal record is where everything meets.
Can I see a family member's health records online?
Usually yes, through proxy access: a parent for a child under a certain age, or an adult for someone who has given consent or for whom you hold a legal authority. Each portal has its own procedure, often through the GP surgery or the insurer. In a personal health record app you can keep separate profiles for family members; in Anpheros Daily this is part of the Plus and Max plans.
Keep your medical record with you
Anpheros Daily keeps symptoms, lab results, medications and documents in one place, in a standard format, under your control. The Basic plan is free.