Sensitive Images Need Tighter Control

Trauma, wound care, images of minors, forensic and high-profile cases sit in the same imaging record as everything else, and reaching them should not be as easy.

Not Every Image Should Be Equally Visible

Smart devices now capture clinical photography well outside traditional DICOM equipment, and a HIMSS-SIIM white paper set out what that means for the management, control and privacy of the images being taken. Capture has moved ahead of access control. Keeping firm control over who reaches certain images is now a procurement requirement.

IMAGES FROM OUTSIDE THE DICOM WORLD?

Phones and consumer cameras capture clinical photographs that never pass through a modality, and they land wherever the application that took them decides.

SCATTERED ACROSS DEPARTMENTS?

Wound care, dermatology and forensic photography often sit in departmental systems outside the imaging record, where enterprise access rules do not reach them.

ONE ARCHIVE, ONE LEVEL OF ACCESS?

When every study is equally reachable, a trauma series is as easy to open as a routine chest X-ray, and nobody set out to design it that way.

Granular Role-Based Permissions

You define roles, and each role reaches only the study types you assign to it, across the imaging record rather than whatever a departmental system happens to expose.

Single Sign-On

SAML single sign-on means imaging access follows the identity provider you already run. Roles change and accounts close in one place, and imaging follows.

Nothing Left on the Endpoint

eUnity stores no image data or patient information on the device, and communication is encrypted, so a sensitive study is not left behind on a laptop, tablet or shared workstation after the browser closes.

DICOM and Non-DICOM Together

Wound photographs, video, PDFs and scanned forms are archived alongside radiology in one vendor-neutral archive, in native format or DICOM-wrapped, with no proprietary conversion.

A Single Index of Record

One index spans DICOM and non-DICOM objects, so a wound photograph is searchable and governed by the same rules as a CT.

Standards-Native and Portable

Standards-native storage with no proprietary internal format, so the archive holding your most sensitive images stays portable.

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Archive: Enterprise Imaging Platform & VNA

Sensitive studies and the photographs that go with them land in the same vendor-neutral archive as the rest of your imaging, with a single index of record across DICOM and non-DICOM objects.

Sensitive studies segmented into their own archives
DICOM and non-DICOM held in one vendor-neutral archive
Native format or DICOM-wrapped, no proprietary conversion
One index of record across every department
Standards-native storage, so the archive stays portable

Radiologist at an enterprise reading-room workstation.

Enterprise Imaging Platform & VNA

The open imaging data layer: archive, workflow engine, worklist, lifecycle management and migration tooling in one platform, holding DICOM and non-DICOM objects under a single index of record.

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eUnity Enterprise Diagnostic Viewer

Mach7’s zero-footprint viewer, reading across specialties from a single patient imaging history, with no image data stored on the endpoint device.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What counts as sensitive imaging?

Healthcare imaging archives hold a great deal of data, but sensitive imaging refers specifically to cases that require extra levels of privacy by nature: trauma cases, graphic wounds and wound care, physical abuse, medical images of minors, forensic cases not meant for all users, and protected or high-profile individuals.

In each case the image is clinically necessary but should be reachable by a named group, not by every enterprise user.
How is access to imaging controlled?
Can Mach7 store clinical photographs and video, not just DICOM?
Does viewing a sensitive image leave a copy on the device?
Where does Mach7 fit if the images are captured on a phone?