Use of visual media in the era of European Union's General Data Protection Regulation: A practice-oriented guideline

With the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation, commonly known as 'GDPR', as the new framework for data protection across the European Union (EU), doctors will need to review how they collect and share personal data to ensure they meet the standards. The aim of this article is to raise awareness on the GDPR, and to provide an easy guideline to steer free from legal problems at the time of drafting papers, presenting lectures and sharing personal data and visual media in particular. To do so, we have analysed the most common situations where personal data, and above all visual media, can be collected, giving clear-cut answers and recommendations for all the scenarios.