[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

[Nathan]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Joseph Chirum <sundog358 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If it were Art, the copyright would be clearly defined.  If it is technical craft in the medical field, such images fall unto another category all together.  Any display of such images would need the patient consent to be HIPPA compliant, or other agreement binding.

It's just not that simple, unfortunately. HIPAA applies to personally
identifying information; I think it'd be easy to argue that the
presumption on imagery, devoid of identifying accompanying text, is
that it is de facto de-identified and thus exempt from HIPAA scrutiny.