One of the parts of obamacare was to enable hospitals throughout the country to pull up a person's medical record no matter where they were. Hospitals were given huge chunks of money to implement or upgrade their electronic medical record (EMR) to make this possible. I can't confirm if they are linked up yet.

I don't know anything about this story but if there is such access virtually any hospital employee in the link could alter medical records. They sold this technology as a great thing for patients since their medical records could be accessed at any point of care, but now I see there is a dark side to it.