potential users a storage medium for retaining records made by the recorder and a plurality of terminals dispersed about the enterprise the terminals are operable when temporarily assigned to an individual for allowing the assigned individual to view certain retained records by entering specified information pertaining to the desired records at the assigned terminal and the system only allows terminals to access records that are available to the individual to whom the terminal is assigned application_number US 25287002 A description the present embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method which stores images received from various sources in a data base each such stored image having associated with it an identity of which allows users to access the image based on the identity of the user in one embodiment the images are accessed via a screen such as a tv screen remote from the image storage location from that remote location the user may view select print email selected ones of the images the degree to which the user can make copies or otherwise dispose of a particular image is dependant upon the nature of the image the system could be set so that only people u201c related u201d to an image such as a relative or identified friend of a patient in the case of a new born or related to a parent could view the image of the new born or via the image of the patient in this context the word related would.