Patient Privacy and Case Materials Policy

Last updated: 18 May 2026

This Policy applies to clinical cases, patient images, videos, scans, operative recordings, pathology, histories, outcomes, and other health information submitted to or discussed through UCS. Do not upload or publish identifiable patient information unless you have a clear lawful basis, appropriate consent or authorization, institutional permission where required, and written UCS approval where the material is not fully de-identified. Remove direct and indirect identifiers, including names, initials, dates, addresses, contacts, record numbers, QR/barcodes, faces, tattoos, unusual scars, voice, metadata, institution labels, rare diagnoses in small communities, and combinations of facts that can reasonably identify a person. Consent must be informed, specific, documented, voluntary, and cover educational or publication use, audience, online availability, language, duration, and possible international access. Pediatric, trauma, reconstructive, before-and-after, face/hand, rare disease, and vulnerable-person materials require heightened caution and may be rejected even with consent. Healthcare professionals remain responsible for medical secrecy, ethics, institutional policy, research rules, and law. UCS may refuse, blur, edit, anonymize, restrict, remove, preserve, or report materials where risk requires.

Contact

Questions, notices, rights requests, security reports, and content concerns may be sent to uacs.secretary@gmail.com. UCS may require identity verification and supporting evidence.