Data Models for the Pseudonymization of DICOM Data

Author

Abouakil, Daniel ; Heurix, Johannes ; Neubauer, Thomas

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

DICOM has become the most widely implemented and supported communications standard for medical imaging. The security of DICOM relies on the encryption of the communication channels. However, for highly sensitive medical data this is often not sufficient. This paper presents a data model for systems using DICOM based on the PIPE pseudonymization approach. A DICOM message intercepting proxy based on three different scenarios from practice was implemented in Java using the established open source PACS DCM4CHE. This system provides health care providers with an efficient architecture to reduce the danger of privacy violation and comply to legal demands, such as HIPAA.

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; security of data; DICOM data pseudonymization; DICOM message intercepting proxy; DICOM security; Java; PIPE pseudonymization; communication channel encryption; communications standard; data models; health care; medical imaging; open source PACS DCM4CHE; Authentication; Cryptography; DICOM; Medical services; Picture archiving and communication systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9618-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2011.136

Filename

5718686