My PCP no longer uses fax. But my pharmacy still insists on faxing prescription renewal requests to him, to no avail.
Is that because there is some sort of national record or is it just because the doctors you see are all affiliated with the same hospital or use the same system? I tried to find out if there is a national record keeping system in Canada, and all I could find were articles like this , which suggests that as of 2019, there was no national record in Canada and that individual doctors, clinics hospitals and labs use a variety of electronic medical records that are incompatible with each other, although apparently some provinces have a provincial record. And the author ( an ER physician) says when he needs information from out-of-province hospitals he must fax a request and wait to have the records faxed back to him.
Which doesn’t sound all that different from the situation in the US. I was in the hospital for a couple of days last week, and the hospital had access to the records from the three other hospitals I’ve visited since 2016 - because just by coincidence, they all use the same medical record system*. But my PCP uses a different system and I suppose my cardiologist uses a third.
* I was surprised when I arrived at the hospital last week, because I was told my name was spelled incorrectly in the record - and until I was discharged and got instructions on getting access to the patient portal , I couldn’t figure out how they had any records as I had never been there before.