Enabling outsourcing XDS for imaging on the public cloud.
Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) has been the main paradigm in supporting medical imaging workflows during the last decades. Despite its consolidation, the appearance of Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for imaging (XDS-I), within IHE initiative, constitutes a great opportunity to readapt PACS workflow for inter-institutional data exchange. XDS-I provides a centralized discovery of medical imaging and associated reports. However, the centralized XDS-I actors (document registry and repository) must be deployed in a trustworthy node in order to safeguard patient privacy, data confidentiality and integrity. This paper presents XDS for Protected Imaging (XDS-p), a new approach to XDS-I that is capable of being outsourced (e.g. Cloud Computing) while maintaining privacy, confidentiality, integrity and legal concerns about patients' medical information.
Department of Electronics, Telematics and Informatics (DETI) Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Luís S
LS
Ribeiro
Renato P
RP
Rodrigues
Carlos
C
Costa
José Luís
JL
Oliveira
D016494:Computer Security; D003628:Database Management Systems; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D011174:Portugal; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*