The issue here isn't that value of electronic medical records but whose records they are...government is still trapped in a world of centralised databases when a more distributed solution is available.
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2006/nov/02/health.epublic?__twitter_impression=true

If the records sits on an NHS computer, correcting error becomes a bureaucratic process and...as Kafka said, bureaucracy cannot conceive of the possibility of error

If we give the patient - the person him or herself - the records then the central system fears for its purpose. Why have a central system when people are trusted with information and decisions?

So the system designs excuses - the records would not be secure, nefarious profiteers and criminals with scam you for them and then where would we be!?

Worse still people might make the *wrong* choices because they do not *understand*.

Or in other words the doctor has to discuss honestly with the patient and this is not what doctors in our system are for.

Doctors serve the system not the patient because it is the system that provides their high wages and status not the patient.

So doctors must control the records not patients.

But doctors need freeing from such an onerous responsibility so the system adopts the records, keeping them secure from those nefarious people including, of course, the patient him or herself.