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Dec 9, 2022 · The advent of digital photography in the early 1990s coincided with the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. Providers have since carefully navigated the medico-legal landscape of medical photography. Under HIPAA, patients are legally entitled to the protection of their health information.
Feb 24, 2015 · Informed consent for medical photography may not necessarily operate in the same way that traditional medical informed consent for treatment does. Generally, informed consent requires disclosure of the diagnosis, the proposed treatment's probable success, other alternative treatments and their respective success rates, and the possible risks and complications that accompany each option 23 .
- M. T. Harting, J. M. DeWees, K. M. Vela, R. T. Khirallah
- 2015
Sep 8, 2019 · In Oman, Article 332 of the Royal Decree 7/2018 is concerned with the photography of individuals without their consent; however, this law is not explicit for medical photography. 5 In other jurisdictions, there are guidelines that regulate the practice of medical photography. 6, 7 Guidelines on this topic should address five main areas ...
- Amal A. Al Balushi
- 2019
Jan 6, 2018 · Clinical photography is rapidly becoming a routine aspect of health care, particularly in visually oriented fields such as dermatology.1-3 These clinical images generally are used for 3 broad categories: publication, education, and clinical documentation.2 While modern bedside photography has enhanced documentation, medical and patient education, and communication between treating clinicians ...
- Tiana Kazemi, Kachiu C. Lee, Lionel Bercovitch
- 2018
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X-ray images are generally covered by laws of medical privacy. Most notable among them the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA sets restrictions for health care providers on utilizing Protected Health Information (PHI), which is any individually identifiable information relating to the past, present, or future ph...
An extensive definition of the term is given by the United States Copyright Act in 17 U.S.C. § 101: 17 U.S.C. § 103(b)provides: Regarding image annotations, a certain amount of originality in shapes may be copyrightable as evidenced from non-medical work,but letters (no matter how ornate), simple geometric shapes, and/or simple shapes (i.e. arrows)...
Works including Public Domain images, such as books, journals and websites, are generally copyrightable as a whole, but this doesn't change the status of each individual Public Domain image.Therefore, it is arguably legal to use medical images from books, journals, and websites if it is otherwise in line with the aspects presented in sections above...
Compendium: Chapter 300may not apply for non-medical radiography. As with all copyrighted works, for someone to copyright a photograph, that photograph must contain “a degree of originality.” In clarifying this requirement, the Supreme Court explained that, in order for works to have a copyright, the work must possess “at least some minimal degree ...
May 15, 2021 · 1. Identified the risks and consequences of data breaches in individual processes in clinical photography: image capture (and temporary/local storage), transmission, permanent storage, and retrieval/use. 2. Determined current, although not necessarily optimal, clinical-photography practices in the US and abroad. 3.
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Sep 3, 2019 · Use of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound in the United States increased rapidly from 2000 to 2006. 1,2 Among Medicare beneficiaries, the increase in utilization was higher for medical imaging than other physician-provided services. 3,4 Steep increases in imaging can be attributed to technical improvements, physician and patient demand, and strong ...
