This is nuts. Who charges you? Is it the company that makes these devices? What if you want a different “provider”?
Boston Scientific, the device maker, does not have an interface for patients, they only send data to hospitals directly.
I'm not currently willing to switch to a different ICD because Boston Scientific's ICD has successfully saved my life 3/3 times in out-of-hospital situations and 2/2 times during in-hospital testing where they induced ventricular vibrillation in controlled testing and I'd rather not risk trying something different. Insurance wouldn't pay for an extra surgery deemed unnecessary, anyway.
I could switch healthcare providers, but I'm not sure if the others in my area are better at cardiology.
Okay so having access to the data wouldn't change a thing, surely you'd be charged even more if you wanted to talk directly to the cardiologist to do a report yourself, as you said?
> inform my cardiologist that there are no events and that there is nothing new to diagnose