[tveyben]

Which is several orders of a magnitude more expensive than just adding a CD-burner. Or use the pre-existing USB interface to write the files to a 5€ small memory stick (new as mentioned earlier)

Ditto for the complexity regarding the security.

[dicom_guy]

What about the marginal cost of each CD, a technicians time to burn it and the extra time for a patient to receive their images in a CD before they can share it with other providers? I went through this problem trying to get the X-rays for my grandma that got COVID.