Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

ask him to make his medical records public.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.