What Happens to Your Medical Images When a PACS Provider Fails?
You store thousands of patient scans in the cloud. But what if your provider shuts down tomorrow? Your medical images could vanish, and you'd face serious legal problems. This isn't just a scary thought—it happens more often than you think in healthcare technology. When you choose cloud based PACS solutions , you're trusting a company with your most critical asset: patient data. But here's what most healthcare facilities don't realize until it's too late—you might not actually own that data in the way you think you do. Who Actually Owns Your Medical Images? This gets complicated fast. You might assume that since these are your patients' images, you own them. Not always true. Most cloud PACS contracts include ownership clauses that sound reasonable but can hurt you later. The provider might claim they own the "storage rights" or the "processed versions" of your images. Some contracts say you own the data but they control access...