ABSTRACT
Medical Records The use of watermarking in medical records as a method of accurate identification is immediately apparent. With the medical industry migrating more and more toward digital records, watermarking becomes a mandatory addition to prevent mix-ups in patient records. Because of the various protocols and different platforms used in the computer world, data sometimes can become corrupted when it is converted from one format to another. Presently, most image formats separate the image data from the text; an x-ray is separate from the name of the patient, the date of the x-ray, and the name of the physician; if the link between the image and the text were ever broken, things could get bad in a hurry. A way to prevent this is to embed into the image the patient’s name and all other pertinent information.
