We have developed a prototype implementation of DICOM structured reporting together with the new security extensions for secure transport connections and digital signatures. As a consequence of the introduction of medical reports in a digital form, the relevance of security measures increases significantly. Therefore, the existing DICOM infrastructure can be used to archive and communicate structured reports, with only relatively small changes to existing systems. Basically, DICOM SR is a general model allowing to encode medical reports in a structured manner in DICOM's tag-based format.
With the release of ' DICOM Structured Reporting' (SR) as an official extension of the standard about two years ago, DICOM has entered a new domain that is only indirectly related to medical imaging. Riesmeier, Joerg Eichelberg, Marco Kleber, Klaus Groenemeyer, Dietrich H.
Authentication, integrity, and confidentiality in DICOM-structured reporting: concept and implementation
