Comment Not in the US (Score 2) 96
" if a patient has the means and the interest to look at the data from a doctor's medical scans, she can."
I'm from Luxembourg, Europe and here all the scans have been done on CDs and DVDs for over a decade now and handed out to us patients, not the doctors. As soon as CDs got cheaper than chemical they switched, I must say I was impressed at the time.
For a copy of the lab-tests I have to pay 1€ to have a copy of the results sent to my address.
As almost everywhere on the world, electronic patient files are slow to come so it's like always:
If you want something done properly, do it yourself!