I agree the systems in use seem horrible and expense from a cost, engineering, and IT perspective, but I'm also a big fan of my doc being able to see my records

I agree the systems in use seem horrible and expense from a cost, engineering, and IT perspective, but I'm also a big fan of my doc being able to see my records in digestible format, IE graphs showing a series of test results over time and such, rather than just 20 pages of paper to eyeball in a hurry and hopefully spot a trend. Or the old situation where you'd inevitably be asked about a test or other visit and they'd have to get results and such faxed over to look at later basically wasting the whole visit. "Oh, sorry, we haven't received the x-rays/blood work/random other diagnostic, referral, or test yet..." Now most times they just bring it up on their computer and are like "oh, I saw you had X done 2 weeks ago, no sense in doing it again..." But that's possible because all my providers are using the same system.