Table 3.

Sharing medical records—significant statements.

Alias, Position, Country, Hospital Type	Quotes
P17, CEO/Admin, Greece, Public	“The medical exams belong to the patient since the patient had paid for them and s/he can do anything s/he wants with them. This is a practice applied not only in Greece but in Europe in general.” “It is necessary and wise to use the medical insurance coverage from patients from other European countries, since this way the Greek hospitals can benefit financially from charging these insurance companies instead of providing medical treatment and medication for free. This is especially important now that many foreigners come to Greece and many times they get medical services for free.”
P28, M.D., Oman, Public	“In some special cases with critical diseases, no matter if the patient doesn’t want to give to other doctors their personal medical information, as a doctor I am giving the information to save the patient’s life.”
P32, Legal/Lawyer/QA, Oman, Public	“It will be great to share medical information worldwide because we don’t share the patient but the patient’s data and this will help a lot to develop any research related to it and also make statistics based on it.”
P33, CEO/Admin, Oman, Private	“The Omani government is planning to implement a system that will allow any patient to have access to his medical record anywhere, anytime in Oman.”
P40, M.D., Oman, Private	“If it is properly secured is ok under authorization to exchange medical information.” “We trust people but we also mistrust them.”