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I'm pretty torn on this as an American living in Europe (Estonia) where there is a robust government system for health record storage. Whenever I go to a doctor
by atlasunshrugged 8y ago
I'm pretty torn on this as an American living in Europe (Estonia) where there is a robust government system for health record storage. Whenever I go to a doctor my health record is updated online and I can log in anytime to see it or to see who accessed it (only very specific people have access like my doc). I think it's hugely useful, just an example, I recently had to travel urgently to Africa for work but had no idea where my vaccine records were from the U.S. since I have lived in half a dozen cities with even more doctors with my records spread across them in no central database so I could enter Kenya. In Estonia that problem wouldn't have ever happened, I can log into my console and print the doc. The fact that a private company needs to build this infrastructure out is a shame but if it's going to be any major tech company, I guess I'm glad it's Apple