[Keverw]

In America records are pretty much decentralized. If you switched to another dentist, you'd have to get the records from your old one. Same for regular doctors. Usually there's a release to fill out. And not even digital depending on where, some still use paper and pen and a folder.

I think some states started doing vaccine registers for schools and stuff. But if not and say you lose your proof and needed it for say going to another school or college, your option is to get a test if your immune, get it again or an exemption depending on the state... Like California only allows medical, while some states allow religious or personal exemptions.

[KSteffensen]

>some still use paper and pen and a folder.

Things like this are mindboggling to me. I don't understand how people can claim the USA is the greatest country in the world, it's so backward.

[ceilingcorner]

You do know that not every ‘advance’ in technology is always good, right?

[KSteffensen]

Agreed. Voting machines definitely seem like a step backwards. Keeping doctors records on digital media and sharing them in case the patient switches doctors seems like common sense though.

[spurgu]

There's the flipside of the coin though: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/26/tens-of-thousa...

[Darmody]

Spanish healthcare is decentralized as well. Every "Comunidad Autónoma" (think about them as states in the US) has its own healthcare system. Which is a pain in the ass if you have some condition and something happens to you outside of your autonomous community.