Proposal talk:Medical Imaging

Overlap with existing tag

How is the proposed tagging different from healthcare=laboratory + healthcare:speciality=diagnostic_radiology ? --Pippo6 (talk) 16:24, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Seems to be more correct, as such places are not really laboratories Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 16:23, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

healthcare=laboratory is documented as
> The tag healthcare=laboratory is used for a Medical laboratory: a place which performs analysis and diagnostics (physicochemical, biochemical, hematologic, immunological, microscopic, bacteriological, etc.) on body fluids such as blood, urine and faeces.
A facility that takes xrays, ultrasound, CT scan, MRI scans, doesn't perform any laboratory work or analysis on samples. Aharvey (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

healthcare:speciality=diagnostic radiology (or indeed just plain healthcare:speciality=radiology) certainly fits, even if healthcare=laboratory doesn't. But even then it's useful to know which specific imaging services are available, so I think tags like healthcare:imaging:mri=yes/no and healthcare:imaging:ct=yes/no could be a good idea. Especially for "rarer" types of imaging (I guess any place tagged as "diagnostic radiology" will be able to take x-rays, but not necessarily MRIs). Although at least in the case of MRI, there is also health_amenity:type=mri which could express this... Splendid (talk) 02:42, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Agree

I DO AGREE WITH THIS TAGGING —Preceding unsigned comment added by JJIglesias (talk • contribs) 21:05, 16 July 2021‎

Good idea

This goes along well with healthcare=sample_collection (for blood tests etc), as dedicated facilities for patients to visit for xrays, ultrasound, CT, MRI. healthcare=laboratory wouldn't be appropriate for these medical imaging centres. Aharvey (talk) 05:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)