title: Beyond the DICOM header: additional issues in deidentification.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  As the use of medical images in applications other than direct patient care increases, the need for deidentified images grows. Federal regulations govern the requirements for deidentification, and software developers offer several methods for deidentification.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  However, there are numerous ways for protected health information to be included in images other than in DICOM headers. Either such information must be obscured or the images containing the information must be deleted to comply with deidentification requirements.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Ave, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104.
authors.forename: Jeffrey D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security / Q000592:standards*; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000592:standards*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
keywords: DICOM; HIPAA; deidentification