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You own your medical record, so once you can get your hands on it (hospitals and docs do not generally make this easy), you can store it anywhere you want. Needless to say, this is sensitive information -- a frequent target for identity fraud, CMS payment fraud, and the like -- so if you are going to store it online, you want to choose a safe place for it, protect it with a unique strong password that you haven't used for your other online accounts, and so on.You did not go into much detail about your actual motivation for asking this question, so any further suggestions would strongly depend on what your goal is. If it's to share information with multiple providers that otherwise have no connection with each other, for example, that would be different than if you were just trying to preserve the information in a safe and easy accessible place.

“Are doctors allowed to withhold information from patients?”As long as the patient is an compos mentis Adult or an informed juvenile (one that already developed an adult level of understanding) the doctor has to give all the information about his or her health, and all the hospital records when requested.It is now up to you on how to respect this oath, and how to best act in the interest of that patient.Nothing is black and white.I will give you a couple of real life scenario from my memory.Here is a common one.An elderly person fractures a bone with ease. It could be because of osteoporosis or because the bone had been weakened by spreading cancer. Many times the family ask that we do not tell the patient they have cancer, as she was already diagnosed and given a short time to live. They had hidden this from their family member.The patient asks what is wrong with her.So what would you do?What I do is.I tell the family the as long the patient does not ask specific question. I would try my best too (obviously who ever made the diagnosis first, is also playing alone) not to make the cancer known to them.I tell the patient that the bone broke because it was weakened, not mentioning why. Jumping directly to how we plan to treat it.If the patient asks why it was weakened, the cat is out of the bag and I have to tell. Luckily elderly people already know that they have osteoporosis,they assume that is why.Usually we just pin the fracture and that is the last we see of the patient. However when it comes to cancer that had spread to the spine. Radiotherapy maybe needed to reduce the pain. So hiding the diagnosis is not possible. I ask the family if they prefer telling the patient themselves.Here is another one.A girl in her twenties comes to see you in the Orthopaedic clinic. Referred by the Radiologist. It seems she is a survivor of a type of bone cancer from her teens. In her leg.Her GP sent her for a Xray of her arm because of pains. The Radiologist viewed her Xray. Sees what he suspects is a different even rarer type of cancer. He makes an urgent appointment with Orthopaedics even before the GP gets to hear of it.She now want to know why she is with you.What would you do?I looked at her and explained that the person reporting on the Xray saw something suspicion and referred her for further investigation.That we will order a CT scan that would make it clear.She wanted to know more of this suspicion thing. I advice her that it does not seem to be what she had before. That it would not be fair to tell more on what she may or may not have. That we would discuss this after the scan.So as you see. While we do have to tell the patient the truth. We do delay, twist and avoid completely answering the question for the benefit of the patient and no one else.