Image-Enabling the Patient Portal of an Electronic Health Record

Dhamija, Akhil; Moskovitz, Jay; Bick, Juli; OConnor, Timothy J; Regan, Jennifer; Perry, Laurie A.; Hulefeld, David; Schwieterman, Eric; Slavik, Evan; Towbin, Alexander J.

doi:10.1007/s10278-020-00404-3

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“…Additionally, as healthcare practices evolve, providers are no longer the sole consumers of images. Patients are becoming well-established as consumers of their own healthcare information [65]. The increase in patient engagement will be heightened with the United States 21st Century Cures Act [66].…”

Section: Image Access and Viewingmentioning

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Visible Light Imaging: Clinical Aspects with an Emphasis on Medical Photography—a HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Whitepaper

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Photodocumentation is a subset of visible light imaging and is an important growing segment of enterprise imaging. Medical videography is another subset of visible light imaging that shares many of the challenges of photodocumentation. Medical photographs are used to document clinical conditions, support diagnosis, guide, and document procedures and to enable collaboration among colleagues. They also play a significant role in patient engagement and are a mechanism for patients to share information with their provider without the need for a clinical office visit. The content of medical photographs raises issues for acquisition, management, storage, and access. Medical photographs may contain protected health information, and these images benefit from the standardized, secure processes inherent in any enterprise imaging program. The ability to securely acquire images on mobile, and sometimes personally owned devices, is a necessity. In addition to containing protected health information, photograph content can be sensitive or gruesome or the images may be used for forensic purposes. These types of images require additional protections. Access to these images should be role-based and auditable. To properly identify photographs and to convey information about their acquisition parameters new metadata requirements and mechanisms for its association with the imaging files are evolving. Institutional policies need to be developed to define the organization’s requirements for medical photography, including consent processes. Existing policies such as those defining the designated record set and legal health record should address the management of medical photography.

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Section: Image Access and Viewingmentioning

confidence: 99%