Connecting Online with Your Healthcare Provider

You might pay your bills online, add money to your child’s school lunch account, or use an app to find your way to a new destination. And now, your healthcare provider is joining the online communication world.  Financial incentives provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through healthcare reform are encouraging hospitals and clinics across the country to adopt electronic medical records and provide online patient access to health records.

Grinnell Regional Medical Center has launched two online patient portals that allow patients fast and easy access to their hospital and clinic records from any computer or device that connects to the internet. The goal is to improve your healthcare experience in several ways.

By using secure online communication, you can view lab results, dates of healthcare visits, view medical history from patient visits to your clinic at any time day or night. You can also contact hospital and clinic staff through a secure messaging system and read medical education and news through this portal.

Patient information from July 1, 2014 and forward is available on the GRMC portal, while patient information from GRMC clinics goes back several years.

Just in case you are wondering, those clinics affiliated with GRMC are:

Grinnell Regional Family Practice

Grinnell Regional Internal Medicine

Grinnell Regional Orthopedics

Grinnell Regional Pain Clinic

Grinnell Regional Women’s Health Clinic

Manatt Family Urgent Care

Deer Creek Family Care

Lynnville Medical Clinic

Victor Health Center

Patients with a valid email address can begin to use the secure, web-based tools now by registering for a secure patient portal account. Or during your next hospital admission process or clinic visit. Parents will also be able to enroll their minor children and access their accounts. Links to both portals are available on the GRMC website at www.grmc.us. You can set up your personal account at any time.  GRMC staff members have resources to walk you through the process as well.

For more information, you can contact your healthcare provider’s office staff or contact the GRMC patient portal resource desk at 641-236-2381 or email patientportal@grmc.us.  The goal is to help you become comfortable with accessing your own health information and to be engaged in your good health.