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DICOM E-mail: Germany's minimum standard for teleradiology

M. KämmererM. WalzB. SchützePeter MildenbergerA. SchröterG. WeisserUwe Engelmann

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Information privacyTelemedicinebusiness.industryComputer scienceGeneral MedicineTeleradiologylanguage.human_languageGermanWorld Wide WebDICOMlanguageThe InternetbusinessImplementationDicom Standard

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Abstract Due to the lack of a standard for teleradiology, the IT Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Informationstechnik, @GIT) of the German Radiological Society (Deutsche Rontgengesellschaft, DRG) has set up an initiative for standardizing telemedicine. E-mail has been selected as the ideal basis for ad hoc connections in teleradiology since it is both easy to implement and use. The DICOM standard offers the option of appending DICOM data types as MIME attachments to any e-mail, thus enabling the transmission of the original DICOM data. Nevertheless, there are additional requirements (e.g., data privacy) that must be obeyed and implemented. The first recommendation was introduced at the 85th German Radiology Convention (Deutscher Rontgenkongress) in Wiesbaden in 2004 and was honoured with the @-Roentgen Award (@-Roentgenpreis). Several commercial and open source implementations are now available and in daily use in German hospitals and private practices.

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2005-05-01International Congress Series
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ics.2005.03.259