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Does Canada have the equivalent of the US’s HIPAA? Here, it’s plain and simple – no photos taken anywhere in the hospital where PHI can exist. Robert J. Kobistek, MS, FACR, DABR, MRSE(MRSC™) Medical Physicist RJK Medical Physics, Inc. 440-463-7879</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does Canada have the equivalent of the US’s HIPAA? Here, it’s plain and simple – no photos taken anywhere in the hospital where PHI can exist.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A50021;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Robert J. Kobistek, MS, FACR, DABR, MRSE(MRSC™)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A50021;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Medical Physicist</span><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#A50021;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Medical Physics, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#A50021;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">440-463-7879<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Baxter, Patricia [ISLH] via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 1, 2025 12:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DX Med Phys <intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Intl_DxMedPhys] Patients taking photos of their medical imaging images<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hello List-server (Sent this to the wrong email before, let’s try it again) We have received a patient complaint about not being allowed to take a photograph of
their x-ray images during their examination. Their argument is that LLM and AI can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Hello List-server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">(Sent this to the wrong email before, let’s try it again)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">We have received a patient complaint about not being allowed to take a photograph of their x-ray images during their examination. Their argument is that LLM and AI can help them
figure out what to do next on their individual health journey. We do allow patients to put in a request for their imaging to be burnt to disc, or other electronic medium for them to take with them, and normally that suffices, even if there is a bit of a
delay in that process. So we are not restricting access – but we are delaying it.
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We haven’t had to do deal with this before, so a policy is late in being created. The questions that I have are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Do your institutions allow for patient photography of their images in the examination?
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Do you have a policy indicating why or why not? (Could you share that policy?)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Much appreciated, any responses. You can either reply to me privately or through the list. Either will be helpful.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Patricia Baxter, MSc, MCCPM (she/her)</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><br>
<b>Island Health: Leader, Radiation Safety, Imaging Physics and Quality Control </b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Diagnostic Imaging Physicist</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Cell: 250.361.7261 </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">E-mail:<u> <a href="mailto:patricia.baxter@islandhealth.ca">
<span style="color:blue">patricia.baxter@islandhealth.ca</span></a></u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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