The PACS Server

Sanitizing Patient Data

To hide sensitive patient and study demographics from specific users, configure the system to automatically sanitize the data. The system uses the Copy action and its coercion rules to sanitize the data automatically.  

To give a user access to only the sanitized version of a study:

1. Create a worklist filter identifying the list of studies to sanitize
2. Set up a copy action on the worklist filter to automatically create a sanitized shortcut to each study

See: Duplicating Studies (Configure Copy)

In the copy action configuration (link above):

1. Set the target as Worklist
2. Define the coercion rules to encrypt the demographic fields to mask
1. In the coercion rules, include a format to indicate the study has been sanitized, such as a unique prefix on a patient name or ID, or in a userdefined field
3. For each user account, create a global restriction filter using the special format applied by the coercion rules

Users with no global restrictions applied will be able to see both the original study and the sanitized study. Additionally, the referenced study is listed in the Technologist View page. To replicate the sanitization on multiple servers, including parent and child servers, duplicate the filter definition and coercion rules on each server. The copy action configuration does not automatically propagate across servers.