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Sadly, you only get the data that that provider has. Interoperability is a distant dream in the U.S. for a variety of political, economic, and technical reasons.You may get a copy of your EHR on CD, DVD, or thumb drive, but it may not be electronic raw data. It will often be PDFs. There really is no functioning industry standard interchangeable format yet.If you have radiological data, such as x-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and sonograms, you can probably get those studies and reports by the radiologist burned to individual CDs or DVDs. You will probably be charged a fee for it. It’s best to ask for radiology imaging disks at the time of service. Usually the CD or DVD has a built in reader program, but sometimes those programs are old or incompatible with current PCs or Macs. Usually, the data on such CDs or DVDs is importable to other radiology systems, because imaging data was one of the first standards that multiple vendors agreed on. But I’ve worked on inter-vendor problems that required examining records byte by byte to find why the import failed. Different vendors interpret standards differently.There are several organizations working on standards, but healthcare IT vendors often make extensions to the standards to help medical providers transition from older systems, and this also makes it hard or impossible to transfer data reliably between non-related medical organizations.Even if two medical group use the same healthcare IT vendor, they usually need a business relationship to provide a motivation to setup such data transfers, and small things like different historical medical record number systems can get in the way. There are usually database admins and programmers who setup the custom conversions needed for such things between organizations. But, alas, not for the patient yet.Personal health record - WikipediaWhy Do We Need Standards?For now, most providers are satisfied to be yanked into the 20th century (not even the 21st century!) by providing portals for patient access. Before the Obama economic stimulus bills about 10 years ago, most providers used paper records only. Now, some use both. Your EHR will consist of scans of pieces of paper received on fax machines - with the image degradation that such scans often imply. Imagine a fax of a fax copied on a copier and then faxed and then scanned into the EHR.Why American medicine still runs on fax machinesFax machines prevent healthcare specialists from being able to search records by keywords, diagnosis codes, or dates. There have been attempts at automating this using OCR (Optical Character Recognition), but they still require a human to proof read the original document and make corrections to the electronic version.While EHRs and standards have certainly prevented deaths and suffering, poor technical choices, and systematic human mistakes also cause deaths and suffering:https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/an-evaluation-of-success-of-electronic-health-records-in-reducingpreventable-medical-error-rates-in-the-united-states-a-detailed-r-2157-7420-1000210.php?aid=65372http://www.himssconference.org/sites/himssconference/files/pdf/236.pdfThe fact that you cannot go to a different hospital system in the same city, and have that hospital easily access your EHR from another hospital or clinic in an emergency also leads to unnecessary suffering and deaths. You can sign all the HIPAA forms, and still must wait for records to be printed and faxed. Rarely, they can be emailed if they are encrypted, but many practices do not pay for the cloud services that support such ability.

In the US, simply file a request in writing with the hospital records department. There may be a 30 day delay. They may charge you per page for photocopying and there may be a charge for CDs or DVDs with imaging studies.I read through my medical records before sending them to my disability insurance. Seven weeks produced a record over 2000 pages long!

That is not accurate. Here is what you can send, pulled directly from the USPS website.Books (at least 8 pages).Sound recordings and video recordings, such as CDs and DVDs.Play scripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals, and music.Printed music.Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media.Sixteen millimeter or narrower width films.Printed objective test materials and their accessories.Printed educational reference charts.Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and medical students.NOTE: Video games, computer drives, and digital drives do not qualify for Media Mail prices.