Is this impossible or are there plausible ways to do this? I want to know if someone can hack into my medical records and find out if I have anything.

Never heard of this before. Have any of you?

I have absolutely no knowledge, but my conjecture:

Hospitals keep records in a closed network, at least if they are smart. Stealing or attempting to steal records is a major offense though; one would be better off getting a doctor to just violate HIPPA.

This is one of those "Do not pass go, go straight to pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison" if you get busted, but Stealing the Network II has a really good chapter about using wifi hacks to crack a hospital network.

Medical records are normally stored on individual isolated computers or as hard copies. When transferring to other hospitals, a dedicated, secured transmission line is used and the records are heavily encrypted.

It's only possible to obtain medical records by having physical access to the hard drives they are stored on, or a means of cracking AES encryption.

It's just not worth the effort to most criminals.

I've had some of my records transferred by normal FAX machine -- blood test results and the like.

In fact, prescriptions are often sent by FAX, as are claim forms to the insurance companies, etc.

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It must be NHS practice-only then.
What country do you live in?

I live in the United States of America. Specifically, North-Western Pennsylvania.

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Ah, there you go then.

It depends on the hospital, I guess. If they're smart, they would use a closed network, but you never know. If you wanted to find out you could theoretically put a small backdoor such as Tiny on a flash drive, and then get a doctor's appointment. I don't know about your hospital, but in mine ever doctor's room has a computer which you're left alone with while waiting for the doctor. If you've packed and crypted it properly, it could work. Then you could snoop around the network from home. Hopefully you know your way around command prompt if you use Tiny, though.

In canada our goverment lost records in the mail containing 40,000 peoples health care info on unencrypted backups IN MOTHER FUCKING PLAIN TEXT WITH THE DRIVERS TO INSTALL THE BACK UP.