If I can securely do my banking and brokerage online, my digitized medical records can be secure too. Health-care apologists don’t like digitization because by making medical records easier to transfer, it threatens their monopoly.
That is the truth...I am an accountant..everyone in my profession is pretty much against the fair tax. I do mostly corporate stuff(audit Fortune 500 co's) and there is a big push there to not makes things too easy lest we be out of a job.
Just went to a Urgent Care facility for a sore throat. Doc came in with a ipad type device-said he loved the electronic records. Asked me what pharmacy I used..I told him and when I went there my prescription was waiting..he sent it over online. No paper.
Some health-care apologists don’t like digitization because by making medical records easier to transfer, it makes your entire history and personal identity, from womb to tomb, available to Big Brother's database in the sky, at the click of a button.
When digitization becomes mandatory, I will leave medicine. I cannot in good conscience give all my patients' private data to Big Brother.
I'm more concerned about the records being held in third-party hands. If my doctor is asked by some government bureaucrat to hand over my written records, he's likely to say "And you reason for wanting the records is?". A third-party datastore will just say "here". More likely, they will have electronic portals where law enforcement, IRS, and whoever can just grab the data.