If your health records are online, they can theoretically be accessed by any hospital anywhere in the world, which could save your life, if you’re traveling and have a health emergency.  My view is that the privacy concern will eventually be eradicated, in much the same way people are no longer extremely concerned about online payments and banking, as they were in the early days of the internet, which I know first hand by spending a summer researching online banking and online bill pay features for QuickBooks in 1995.

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