SignalPET GDPR Compliance Process Setup

The following fields SignalPET removes from all of their images and studies:

• Patient Address
• Patient Comments
• Patient State
• Patient Transport Arrangements
• Patient Institution Residence
• Patient Insurance Plan Code Sequence
• Patient Mother Birth Name
• Patient Primary Language Code Sequence
• Patient Primary Language Modifier Code Sequence
• Patient Religious Preference
• Patient Size
• Patient Size Code Sequence
• Patient Telecom Information
• Patient Telephone Numbers
• Person Address
• Person Identification Code Sequence
• Person Name
• Person Telecom Information
• Person Telephone Numbers
• Telephone Number Trial
• Responsible Person
• Responsible Person Role
• Responsible Organization

For customers who utilize the file watcher the following updates are implemented to their agent to ensure proper compliance:

Insert {"convert_method": "dcm2anon"} in the agent config string invoking the dcm2anon converter to remove all of the fields listed above from each dicom file. Also use anon as version override. 

For customers who utilize a cloud agent change the IP address to scp-anon.signalpet.com port 11112. This is a server hosted in Frankfurt that receives DICOMs remove the data mentioned above and forwards to scp.signalpet.com. Reverse DNS for scp-anon.signalpet.com is 3.124.90.145 or 18.156.164.255

* SignalPET supports secure DICOM send transmission of data over TLS from the agent to SignalPET servers - ensuring data protection through end to end encryption. 

    storescu -ic +tla scp3.signalpet.com  2762 file.dcm  -aet <aet>

** To be compliant please do not put any personal information in any of the fields not listed above because then the information will not be removed. 

*** Do not burn any information into an image because that information cannot be removed.