January 14, 2025

Radiology images to now be visible to patients in My Health at Vanderbilt

Sometime in the near future, diagnostic images will now appear in a patient’s My Health at Vanderbilt account. Until this change, patients did not see the actual image and only had access to the radiologist’s report.

With this change, patients will only see images after the results are finalized by the radiologist within Epic. They may, however, see them before the ordering clinician has had an opportunity to review the radiology report.

As with all test results that are immediately released within My Health at Vanderbilt, clinical team members are advised to counsel patients to not make interpretations from the images or the radiology report until the ordering clinician has had an opportunity to review. Moreover, the images available for patient viewing within My Health at Vanderbilt will not be of diagnostic quality.

Making these images available to patients helps to better include them in their own health care plans and make them feel more empowered to manage their own health.