Yep, works like this in Canada. The problem is that each clinic implements a different record system, so someone needs to undergo effort to translate them when

Yep, works like this in Canada. The problem is that each clinic implements a different record system, so someone needs to undergo effort to translate them when you switch systems. Also, I worked with OSCAR, one of Canada's biggest EMRs. It is written by a bunch of academics at a local university and is individually deployed on under-the-desk computers at clinics. It is full of security holes, the whole process of managing this system is. I get why you want rights over the medical records. You can still have those on a centralized system. Google and facebook are centralized and you have rights over them (in some jurisdictions anyways).