Medical Record .gifs

MouldyOldDough

How do I download .gifs from my medical record ?

They appear as paperclips that I can open by left clicking on - they are poorly formatted and hardly readable - but I am unable to download and convert to PDF....

When downloaded - they lose all of the content.

Exodi

Why .gif in particular? That's a relatively uncommon picture format to be used for static images - generally jpg or png might be used.

Are you on phone or desktop?

I guess the bodge way would be print screening (and then converting the picture if it has to be absolutely be .gif).

la531983

Put them as images in a Word document and PDF those?

MouldyOldDough

Exodi said:

Why .gif in particular? That's a relatively uncommon picture format to be used for static images - generally jpg or png might be used.

Are you on phone or desktop?

I guess the bodge way would be print screening (and then converting the picture if it has to be absolutely be .gif).

Because THEY ARE .gifs !!

But are ZERO bytes in size !

I am on a desktop/laptop

Exodi

MouldyOldDough said:

Exodi said:

Why .gif in particular? That's a relatively uncommon picture format to be used for static images - generally jpg or png might be used.

Are you on phone or desktop?

I guess the bodge way would be print screening (and then converting the picture if it has to be absolutely be .gif).

Because THEY ARE .gifs !!

But are ZERO bytes in size !

I am on a desktop/laptop

My apologies, I misinterpreted this that you wanted the files in .gif format, not that that was how they were stored.

If they are zero bytes in size, then there is no data - as you've experienced.

What you are describing sounds like the document has compressed thumbnails of the files, and the .gifs are either the thumbnails or just blank images, often used for tracking purposes. It's likely the full size image is not embedded in the file and can not be downloaded.

Zoom in and print screen in my opinion, or download the file and take the images off with an editor. As before though, the full res file may not embedded in the file.

Frozen_up_north

It’s possible the images are not downloadable for data security reasons, which could explain the zero size.

Newcad

If these are medical images, eg, x-rays or scans, then the actual images themselves will be in DICOM image format (not .gif).

https://standards.nhs.uk/published-standards/digital-imaging-and-communications-in-medicine

They appear as paperclips that I can open by left clicking on - they are poorly formatted and hardly readable

Presumably if these are medical images then the gif's that you are trying to download are either links to those DICOM's, and/or may be the best attempt that the webpage/document is able to display.
Trying to render a high resolution image as a gif would usually result in something hardly readable.

If they are links then you will probably not have the required permissions needed to access those links and download them.
Even if you did then you would need an image viewer app capable of opening DICOMS, most can't do that without installing an add-on/plugin to the viewing app.

PS. Medical records are sensitive information and may even be witheld from the patient.

MouldyOldDough

Frozen_up_north said:

It’s possible the images are not downloadable for data security reasons, which could explain the zero size.

BUT when I select the paperclip and open (rather than download) the files - some DO open but are hard to read - due to size of background "paper" - ie) they go across two (or more) pages !

MouldyOldDough

Newcad said:

If these are medical images, eg, x-rays or scans, then the actual images themselves will be in DICOM image format (not .gif).

https://standards.nhs.uk/published-standards/digital-imaging-and-communications-in-medicine

They appear as paperclips that I can open by left clicking on - they are poorly formatted and hardly readable

Presumably if these are medical images then the gif's that you are trying to download are either links to those DICOM's, and/or may be the best attempt that the webpage/document is able to display.
Trying to render a high resolution image as a gif would usually result in something hardly readable.

If they are links then you will probably not have the required permissions needed to access those links and download them.
Even if you did then you would need an image viewer app capable of opening DICOMS, most can't do that without installing an add-on/plugin to the viewing app.

PS. Medical records are sensitive information and may even be witheld from the patient.

MY records should ALL be viewable to MYSELF !

Keep_pedalling

Whatever your PC is opening them in seems to be corrupting the files. What you should do is save the files to your PC and then open in a photo editing package that supports GIF files. Although I use Photoshop for serious editing I have also been using Faststone Image Viewer for many years. If is free easy to use and you can save the files in a number of formats including PDF. You can download it from the following link. 

https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Undervalued

MouldyOldDough said:

Newcad said:

If these are medical images, eg, x-rays or scans, then the actual images themselves will be in DICOM image format (not .gif).

https://standards.nhs.uk/published-standards/digital-imaging-and-communications-in-medicine

They appear as paperclips that I can open by left clicking on - they are poorly formatted and hardly readable

Presumably if these are medical images then the gif's that you are trying to download are either links to those DICOM's, and/or may be the best attempt that the webpage/document is able to display.
Trying to render a high resolution image as a gif would usually result in something hardly readable.

If they are links then you will probably not have the required permissions needed to access those links and download them.
Even if you did then you would need an image viewer app capable of opening DICOMS, most can't do that without installing an add-on/plugin to the viewing app.

PS. Medical records are sensitive information and may even be witheld from the patient.

MY records should ALL be viewable to MYSELF !

Using capital letters (often seen as shouting online) doesn't make it so!

There are limited circumstances where medical records can be withheld.