{"id":48365,"date":"2021-02-25T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-regional-medical-center-makes-medical-records-more-accessible\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:39:46","slug":"san-juan-regional-medical-center-makes-medical-records-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-regional-medical-center-makes-medical-records-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Regional Medical Center makes medical records more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e346d25d-3f61-42ce-b33a-751613073092&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"San Juan Regional Medical Center announced Friday it has partnered with Apple to provide patients access to health records via the iPhone\u2019s Health app.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan Regional Medical Center announced Friday it has partnered with Apple to provide patients access to health records via the iPhone\u2019s Health app.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Gerald Herbert\/Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 San Juan Regional Medical Center now offers patients access to their individual health records through the iPhone Health app, allowing them to see their health data at any time.<\/p>\n<p>On an iPhone, the Health app, which displays a heart as the icon, shows a multitude of health information depending on what users have activated, their apps and which devices they might have. For example, the Health app tracks steps, heart rate and nutrition, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Records section is a separate part of the app but allows patients to see all of their medical data and\/or progress in one spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth Records creates a direct connection between San Juan Regional Medical Center and a patient\u2019s iPhone, allowing them to see a central view of their allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures and vitals,\u201d said Laura Werbner, spokeswoman for San Juan Regional Medical Center, in a news release Friday. \u201cIt also notifies patients when their data is updated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Underwood, chief medical officer for San Juan Regional, said the app can cut down on time spent gathering health data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a provider, it is not only something I encourage but I use personally as part of my overall wellness efforts,\u201d Underwood said.<\/p>\n<p>Annette DiGiacomo, a patient at San Juan Regional, said she visits the medical center for issues that are only \u201cemergency worthy,\u201d though she does have chronic health problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a chronically ill person, I have grown accustomed to deciphering my own test results, so having easy access would definitely be a perk,\u201d DiGiacomo said.<\/p>\n<p>While she doesn\u2019t currently use the Health app much, she said she would use it more if she had the information available to her. But she is concerned about whether the app can be hacked, and if so, if sensitive medical information could be hacked.<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple says the Health app was designed to protect patients\u2019 privacy and information by using encrypted connections between iPhone users and health organizations, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth Records protects patients\u2019 privacy through encryption with the user\u2019s iPhone passcode, Touch ID or Face ID, so it is safe and secure to use,\u201d Underwood said.<\/p>\n<p>DiGiacomo said having information readily available at her fingertips could be beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been nice during my stay to have more information at my fingertips regarding my health,\u201d DiGiacomo said. \u201cAt that time, they were so busy, I often didn\u2019t feel like I really knew what was going on with my health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about how to link the Health app to the San Juan Regional Medical Center patient portal, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/healthcare\/health-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.apple.com\/healthcare\/health-records\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5G1Jsqt11A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital will allow patient portal access through iPhone Health app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,28,138,29,443,3352,358],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico","tag-san-juan-regional-medical-center","tag-science-and-technology"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48365"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}