Why you should hold your own medical records
Health systems do not transfer records across borders. You are the transfer mechanism.
Medical records
DICOM discs, pathology blocks, discharge summaries and translation.
Requesting records: how to ask and what to expect
The request itself is usually simple. Knowing what to ask for is the part people get wrong.
Preparing records for a clinician in another country
A box of documents in an unfamiliar language is not useful. Organisation is what makes records usable.
Digital health records: portability and its limits
Digitisation has not solved portability. It has moved the problem rather than removing it.
Medication lists: the most valuable single document
If you keep one document only, keep this one. It changes decisions in almost every encounter.
Privacy, consent and who can see your records
Rules differ sharply between countries, and assumptions carried from home can be wrong.
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