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Not completely the same thing but I work at a research hospital where we often scan people. Our lab usually says that we will not give images to individuals bec
by ninesnines 4y ago
Not completely the same thing but I work at a research hospital where we often scan people. Our lab usually says that we will not give images to individuals because often people will become worried when looking at their own images.
They sign off on this, and at the end of the day the data goes “owned” by the hospital. I believe the same is for the only clinical scans.
It’s an interesting question though, and one that’s been argued a lot over at different institutions and countries
- ninesnines 4y agoAlso as a side note it is often times a pain to go and get clinical data for patients. You often have to extract the dicoms and find a encrypted usb. Then the patient would have to find a dicom viewer…. A lot of clinical images come from very archaic systems that are often very idiosyncratic and it just makes for giving patients their own images not a small time thing.