Which is also a privacy feature. Your dentist has your records, if a body is found and they think it might be you, they will ask your dentist for the records. If the mandatory storage period has passed, they are gone. To steal the records, an attacker would have to know, who your dentist is and then get them from there.
The same kind of system could be implemented with a distributed or federated EMR.
The data would still be stored with the practitioner where it originated but it could be shared with third parties (i.e. other practitioners) if the patient consents.
I really don't see how using the patient as messenger for medical data on paper could be seen as a privacy feature. Quite to the contrary, actually: Paper documents are easily misplaced or lost and then suddenly someone has access to your medical data.
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Which is also a privacy feature. Your dentist has your records, if a body is found and they think it might be you, they will ask your dentist for the records. If the mandatory storage period has passed, they are gone. To steal the records, an attacker would have to know, who your dentist is and then get them from there.
The same kind of system could be implemented with a distributed or federated EMR.
The data would still be stored with the practitioner where it originated but it could be shared with third parties (i.e. other practitioners) if the patient consents.
I really don't see how using the patient as messenger for medical data on paper could be seen as a privacy feature. Quite to the contrary, actually: Paper documents are easily misplaced or lost and then suddenly someone has access to your medical data.