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Records: "We cannot accept the outside MRI electronically."
Me: "How should it arrive?"
Records: "On a disc."
Me: "My computer has not had a disc drive since 2016."
Records: "Then bring it to the third floor."
Send this to whoever has walked a CD across a hospital this year.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Image exchange between unaffiliated health systems still frequently depends on physical CD-ROM transfer despite the existence of electronic image-sharing standards, causing repeat imaging and delay.
Well-documented persistence of CD-based image exchange between health systems.
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