Image Share
Project Gives Patients and Physicians Anytime, Anywhere Access to Medical
Images
(April 30,
2012) Patients
can successfully pull their medical images from the “cloud” making it faster
for them to distribute them to their physicians regardless of where those
physicians might be, according to a preliminary report of an image share
project that involves five different academic institutions.
The image
share project includes the University of California, San Francisco, University
of Chicago, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, the University of Maryland in
Baltimore, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY.
“The
patient can arrange with their radiologists’ office to have their images and
the radiology reports exported into an Internet-based personal health record
(PHR),” said David Mendelson, MD, principal investigator of the image share
project. Once the information is in the personal health record, the patient has
full control over distribution of the images and reports. Images can be viewed
immediately online by signing into one’s PHR. In addition, e-mail links can be
sent to physicians allowing them to view and download the images and reports as
needed, said Dr. Mendelson.