DICOM PS3.15 2016b - Security and System Management Profiles

E.2 Basic Application Level Confidentiality Profile
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## E.2 Basic Application Level Confidentiality Profile

This profile is intended for use in clinical trials, and other scenarios in which de-identification may be required, such as creation of teaching files, other types of publication, as well as submission of images and associated information to registries, such as oncology or radiation dose registries.

This Basic Application Level Confidentiality Profile defines an extremely conservative approach that removes all information related to:

- the identity and demographic characteristics of the patient

- the identity of any responsible parties or family members

- the identity of any personnel involved in the procedure

- the identity of the organizations involved in ordering or performing the procedure

- additional information that could be used to match instances if given access to the originals, such as UIDs, dates and times

- private attributes

when that information is present in the non-Pixel Data Attributes, including graphics or overlays, as described in Table E.1-1.

### Note

Unless the Clean Pixel Data Option is also specified, this profile does not address information burned-in to the pixels.

The Attribute Longitudinal Temporal Information Modified (0028,0303) shall be added to the Dataset with a value of "REMOVED" if none of the Retain Longitudinal Temporal Information Options is applied.

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