Free tool
Who can see my medical records?
Three questions, thirty seconds. Find out who can read your medical records when you send them to a clinic, at home or abroad, and what to change.
Your answers stay in this page and go nowhere. No account, no email address.
The check
How private is the way you send them now?
Answer all three and your result appears here, with what each answer means for who can read your records. Your answers stay in this page and go nowhere.
Why these three questions
Each question rests on a published fact.
- How you send it
- Email is encrypted between mail servers only when both providers support it, and stays readable on each server afterwards. A cloud service such as Google Drive holds the keys to files in a standard account.[S81][S80]
- Who holds the key
- Whoever holds the key can read the file. Encryption on your own device, under a key only you hold, is the one arrangement where nobody else can.[S80]
- Whether you can take it back
- Once a clinic has your records, its own rules decide how long it keeps them: at least five years in Spain, at least 30 in Hungary. US privacy law covers US providers only, and EU law lets organisations move health data abroad only with an adequacy decision or safeguards.[S113][S115][S75][S76]
Last reviewed against these sources, by the Private Health Passport team. How we research is set out in our editorial policy, and every source is in the reference list.
Questions
About the check.
- Is this check free?
- Yes. It takes about thirty seconds, needs no account and no email address, and works in any browser.
- Are my answers stored or sent anywhere?
- No. The score is worked out in your browser, and your answers disappear when you leave or reload the page.
- How is the privacy score calculated?
- Each answer earns points for how much of the protection stays with you: who holds the key to the file, whether you can take access back, and the channel you use. Email, cloud links, USB sticks and clinic portals all leave a copy with someone else, so none of them reaches 100.
The full picture, with sources, is in our guide: is it safe to send your medical records to a clinic abroad? What the Private Health Passport app keeps, and where, is on the security page.