Re: obvious solution ...
Getting the correct patient details onto the scan requires access to the hospital records, relying on manual entry results in getting them wrong. Neither do you want to tie up the machine console with burning multi-gigabyte DVDs (seriously) to get them off the scanner and then have someone have to manually push them onto the system at the other end for each scan. Besides which, this only safeguards the system running the scanner itself, your images (with identifiable information) are now in both places. Not to mention creating a mountain of optical media that needs to be disposed of securely (I used to have a literal stack of such CDs that needed to be kept locked up until we could arrange to have them shredded).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
