My notes on the sad state of healthcare data integration[1]. This issue of patient access to their own records in electronic format kind of falls in the general category of electronic data access and data integration. In short, you'd be lucky to get your provider to print your records let alone save them as pdf let alone export them in a machine readable fashion. The only change I see on the horizon is entirely consumer driven with the advent of better and more interesting consumer focused health/lifestyle devices and apps. Once the consumer becomes savvy, industry EMR providers will follow.

[1]http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...