DICOM
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the industry standard of creation, storage, transfer and visualization of medical images and documents of the inspected patients (x-rays, MRT-images, etc.). The standard is developed by the American board of radiology and National association of producers of electronics (ACR/NEMA). DICOM servers allow to organize transfer of the data created in the DICOM format on network, to provide their search and hands-off processing. The technology considerably reduces a set-up time and carrying out researches and also managements of images and the accompanying information.
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2020: Start of open DICOM server for storage and transfer of medical pictures
In the middle of November, 2020 Microsoft started DICOM server open source for storage and transfer of medical pictures. The tool under the name Medical Imaging Server for DICOM is useful to developers for transfer of medical images in a cloud and integration of metadata of images into clinical data in the FHIR system using DICOM Cast technology. Read more here.
2016: Statistics unprotected DICOM servers around the world
At the beginning of March, 2016 scientists of the Massachusetts hospital (Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH) announced that in the world there are 2773 unprotected servers storing data in the DICOM standard. 29% from them also information transfers about patients are completely open for interaction with external computers.
According to MGH, by the beginning of March, 2016 in Russia there are 18th DICOM servers, 8 of which support the unprotected connection from the outside from any country. Thus, in the Russian Federation there were absolutely unprotected 44% of servers in medical institutions. Higher shares are recorded only in Argentina (46%), Spain (48%), Thailand (71%) and Iran (85%). Most of all DICOM servers are in the USA — 1335, from them 346 computer systems can be considered unsafe.
According to the doctor of science of MGH Oleg Pyanykh, these disturbing data show that information on patients still is not in security.
 | If you think that your hospital is not cracked yet, then, most likely, you just do not know about it — he said. |  |
Oleg Pyanykh and his colleague Sampson Abiola developed the special program for the analysis of remote IP connections with DICOM servers. Using location-based technologies, scientists precisely defined location of the unprotected computer systems and their owners, noted Drunk.
Besides, researchers studied the servers working with communication HL7 standard. In Russia there were 8 such unprotected systems. In the USA — them 90, in Brazil — 26, in Egypt — 25.[1]
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