Your Medical Records-Public or Private?

The law in the United States regarding patients' medical records have strict rules to follow. There aren't many other people besides you and your doctor than can access medical records. How do you feel about your medical records being stored electronically?

There are some pro's and con's to this matter at hand. Some of the pro's would be that patients' medical records would be accessible at a click of a mouse and up to date within seconds. This process makes it a whole lot easier on doctors and their offices when it comes to saving, storing, and retrieving a patients' medical records. How safe is this really? Yes it is more efficient, but is efficiency worth the cost of easier accessibility? How safe are your records really when someone who knows or can figure out the system in which they are stored? The accessibility is also easier for insurance agencies, along with the government. With insurance agencies having easier accessibility to patients' private medical records, would it cause agencies to drop or not cover costs with knowing more sooner about patients' and their conditions? Yes efficiency is always a more convenient way of operating, but is a patients privacy worth the risk?