Health portal
Radiological images must be visible to everyone.
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The patient is unable to understand the radiological image on their own, which causes unnecessary confusion. The correct approach should be for a specialist to clearly explain the image and the findings
Estonia has chosen a health data collection model known as the opt-out model. This means that patients cannot prohibit the collection of their data in the health information system, but they do have the option to restrict healthcare providers’ access to their health data, either on a per-document basis or for their entire digital health record. For example, if a patient requests at the end of a visit that a specific document be closed to healthcare providers, a note will be added to that document. When the doctor sends this document to the health information system, it will be closed off to other healthcare providers, according to explanations from the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Health and Welfare Information Systems Center. However, certain information from this closed document may still be accessible to national databases and registries.
The digital health record is now referred to as the health portal.
Presumably, all healthcare providers should have access regardless of the service from which the images originate. The image archive (https://pacs.ee/) is a service created for this purpose, but for some reason, not all images make it there.