A worse problem, I believe, is more on the side of people actually easily accessing their medical records. It seems that providers have used the onerous privacy laws as an excuse to obstruct the process of releasing medical records in order to prevent customers from moving to another provider.<p>For example, the Doctor On Demand app has records of all of my visits available on the screen when I am logged in, but in order to actually export or download them, I was required to call them, then fill out an online form where none of that data was prefilled, then I will need to wait up to 10 days for the request to be filled. Its ridiculous.<p>It doesn't make any sense, since I could just take screenshots on the app as I scroll through the data. Which it seems that if I am identified on the app, they should be able to release the records -- which they do -- they just deliberately make it difficult to export them.<p>Someone is going to come on here and give me a lecture about privacy laws and how they have to do that or something, but I think its BS. The laws need to be updated to ensure that people can access and export and transfer their own medical records easily. I need to own that data.<p>I think there are quite a few groups working on technology to solve the problem of owning your data and also being able to share it in a non-identifiable way. Some of them use things like bitcoin or blockchain to do so. We definitely need high tech solutions so I hope some of these types of endeavors will become popular and more effective than some of the inept government efforts so far.