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. The documentation is better; the governance has not kept up. A provider’s ability to keep firm control over who reaches certain images has become a requirement, not a refinement.

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.

The Missing Piece in Your Imaging Strategy

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eUnity diagnostic viewer, dual-monitor reading workstation.

Granular Role-Based Permissions

Access is governed by granular role-based permissions, so a user reaches what their role allows 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 across departments means a sensitive image is findable, and therefore governable, in one place instead of on a departmental drive nobody is auditing.

Standards-Native and Portable

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

Deliver Value for your Patients

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. Nothing has to be parked in a departmental system to be kept.

Zero-footprint diagnostic-quality clinical viewer
Utilized by referring physicians, clinicians and general users
Integrates data from any source
Completes EMR with a full imaging history
Toolset to support clinical subspecialities

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 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.

The common thread is that the clinical need for the image and the number of people who should be able to open it point in opposite directions.
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?