I’m a big fan of all the openness, it is a huge help to keeping patients aware and understanding. I’m curios though, does linking different institutions together in our private patient portal also give those institutions the permissions required for record access between each other? I ask because I’m confused as I’m starting to go to different doctors now because of relocation. In advance, I asked if I needed to sign a release form to get previous records, especially scans and labs, sent to them or if there was a fax I could transmit them to. They said they already had them. Two of my specialists for next week’s visit already have my previous records. A visit with a new doctor last week seemed to have a record of every prescription ever filled in the past 8 years, so we had to go through the list to knock off all previous antibiotics, dosage changes, & other 1 time events. I’m a HUGE proponent of simplication, saving trees, and the time we all spend collecting/saving/transmitting/storing medical records, but sometimes I’m not sure where the permissions were given. Maybe state laws are different regarding sharing of medical records, for safety and emergency reasons?