Ethical issues of patient images freely accessible on the internet

Sara D Ragi; Asghar Shah; Jane M Grant-Kels; Lionel Bercovitch

doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2023.11.028

Ethical issues of patient images freely accessible on the internet

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2023 Dec 21:S0190-9622(23)03230-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.11.028. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Sara D Ragi¹, Asghar Shah², Jane M Grant-Kels³, Lionel Bercovitch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Electronic address: sara_ragi@brown.edu.
² Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
³ Dermatology Department, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; Dermatology Department, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

PMID: 38127012
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.11.028

No abstract available

Keywords: autonomy; confidentiality; dermatology images; ethics; google images; informed consent; internet; medical images; patient privacy; photographs.

Publication types

Letter