[DataWorker]

How great for the patient. Everywhere you have built in second opinions. With digital, one lazy or bad doctor can more or less permanently alter the course of subsequent medical care with inaccurate information or a bad diagnoses.

[amolo]

how different is it for paper based records then? What advantage does paper even have.

[jklein11]

It is easier for you as a patient to control your paper record. You can just throw out an opinion that doesn't seem right. If your record is being managed for you, it is much harder to get things corrected.

[BjoernKW]

This is simply a question of ownership and control. If you own and control your medical data you can simply share it with medical practitioners when required.

With the current system on the other hand I have very limited control over my medical data, if at all.

Sure, when receiving results on paper I could throw away anything I "don't like".

However, I have no control over what records my GP, a hospital, or my health insurance provider keep about me. I can't see them. I can't have them amended or deleted.

[Spooky23]

You can see it and correct it.

Every time my local medical cartel upgrades their EMR, my personal history gets amended to include false information that could have impacts on my career, and lead a provider to make a bad decision.