Hello Patricia,
You may wish to google information regarding HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996).
Most Institutions were required to be in compliance of the Act
by or before April of 2003. Here is a link:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/
This Act gives patients a great deal of legal leverage regarding
how their medical information is used. Medical Imaging and
how those images are used falls under the guidelines of this Act.
I believe the key is to have very clear and thoroughly
written releases (preferably authored by an attorney)
.... that are signed.
best regards,
Phillip
Patricia Reed wrote:
> I am wanting to use some medical images, x-rays,
> for some alt processes to put in a show. But I don't know anything
> about the ethics of this.
> The people in the x-rays will be in no way be recognizable and their
> names will not be included.
> The x-rays will be altered by me thru the process of making enlarged
> negatives and being printed in cyano or something.
> They will no longer be x-rays made by a radiologist but appropriated
> and altered by me into something else, my own art.?
> So does any one know of a reference resource of guidelines for using
> medical images in art?
Received on Wed Nov 19 17:47:29 2003
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