MyChart Care Companion
Easily connect to your care team with helpful tools and notifications
Check off your daily health to-do’s, log activity, and keep your care team in the loop. MyChart Care Companion lets you access easy-to-use tools from your smartphone, tablet, or computer with:
- Interactive care plans tailored to your personal health needs
- Daily task and medication reminders that you can customize
- Easy health tracking for you and your care team
- Notifications for you and your doctor based on your activity
- Automatic plan adjustments along the way
How does Care Companion work?
It provides you with an interactive care plan designed around you that adapts based on your activity and needs. Count on MyChart Care Companion for:
- • Education and support
- • Goal tracking
- • Task and medication reminders
- • Questions and symptom check-ins
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Frequently asked questions
Select the green checkmark or the red X to mark whether you’ve taken medications. If you’ve taken all your medications for the day, select Mark # Taken at the bottom.
Select the task, which may include reading materials or videos. After completing the task, select I Understand or Ask a Question to message your care team.
Open the task, answer all the questions, and select Submit when you’re done.
Select the task, go to Track My Health, and then select Add Reading to enter your information — such as your weight or blood pressure. If you connect MyChart to your Fitbit or Apple Health account, readings may be automatically recorded.
After finishing a task, like exercising for 30 minutes, mark it complete by selecting the green checkmark or the red X if you didn’t.
You can also choose when you receive notifications and whether they’re sent for each task or all at once. Open the To Do activity, select More at the bottom, and then Manage To Do Reminders.
- To change how you receive notifications, in the How Often section, choose When My Tasks Are Due for notification each day — or Only Once Daily to receive one notification for all tasks.
- To change when you receive notifications, select Manage Reminder Schedule to set reminders for morning, midday, evening, bedtime, and end-of-day tasks
Optum Care Washington and The Polyclinic, PLLC d/b/a Optum Care Washington (the “Practices”) are both physician owned and led practices having complete authority for all medical decision-making and patient care through their physicians and other licensed professionals. Optum, through its management organizations (“Optum”) provides non-clinical administrative services to support the Practices and their physicians. Neither Optum nor its management companies employs, engages, or supervises physicians or other licensed professionals, or determines or sets the methods, standards, or conduct of the practice of medicine or exercise of medical judgment or health care provided by the Practices or by any of their licensed professionals. “Part of Optum” reflects that the practices are part of Optum’s effort to support forward-thinking physician practices in helping their patients live healthier lives.