X-Ray Room

showing that importance of x-ray

It's sad how they just leave the patient records laying around like that.

These days it's actually criminal for this to occur. With HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996) you can get a large fine and prison time for this ("if the offense is committed with intent to sell, transfer, or use individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm, be fined not more than $250,000, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both"), although there are lesser fines for just leaving things lying about as they did here.

I don't believe the law is retroactive, however, but it's still a damn shame to see these records exposed like this for all the world to see. Most health care professionals go to (and have always gone to) great lengths to keep client confidentiality, but once you leave the employ of an institution or agency they "own" the client files. This is something the state agency that ran the place or the previous healthcare facility owners should be slapped for.

In my humble opinion. :-)

Can you tell us what you read? Please?

I've got a computer that had once been in a medical lab and was used as a database server for the labs records... I know this because the database file was still on the HDD, newest files were from 1998-1999. I have since whiped the HDD clean. but the knowlage it was a lab computer certanly explained why the computer was so clean, even the inside was dust free, looked brand new :)

He 'whiped' it clean, Oh boy!

Add a muzzle and you're away :D

The x-ray room is very eweeeeeeeeeeee to look at.What kind of x-ray room is that?Is it really an x-ray room or a horror room?

Whatever "virus" escaped from the lab, it ate and destroyed all in it`s path. Nurses and Dr.`s scrambled feverishly to get all patient`s to a safe location. Time was up, no escape, poof, you`re dust. LOL

That`s how it looks through my eyes.

Oh that great!
the lookes is freaking amazing!
i wanna se what the X-ray was!

PIGS .AT LEAST CLEAN UP AFTER THE PARTY!

hey lynn...im glad to know that im not the only person who has to sit through HIPAA once a year....EVERY YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The room above is likely a darkroom for developing x-rays. The metal frames hanging on the wall had clips in the four corners to hold the film in place while it was dipped in the developer, fixer, and water baths. Then the frames were hung in a dryer for 20-30 minutes. To get a "wet reading" the radiologist looked at the images before they went into the dryer (usually for emergencies). The machine below the frames looks like the tanks that held the chemicals.

where are those patients now is my question.