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It sounds like these are DICOM servers being exposed to the internet. DICOM is the standard file format for medical images, and there's also a DICOM server stan
by roywiggins 7y ago
It sounds like these are DICOM servers being exposed to the internet. DICOM is the standard file format for medical images, and there's also a DICOM server standard. Medical equipment sends images to DICOM servers so your ultrasound (or whatever) can be archived and stored in your medical records. The generic term is a PACS ("Picture Archiving and Communication System") but since equipment speak DICOM, they're always(?) DICOM servers.
DICOM servers are often not very secured, so if you allow the internet to talk to them, you're in for a bad time.
- taborj 7y agoMost of the DICOM providers I've worked with assume that the clinic will be handling security, as the images are stored on a local DICOM server, though lately there's been much more emphasis on setting up a VPN between the clinic and the PACS/DICOM provider's cloud-based system.
- roywiggins 7y agoIt makes sense. You can't exactly update dicom clients easily so really there's no universe where the data should be passing over the internet without wrapping it all in a VPN. There's not much point in trying to secure it since that might just encourage people to expose it to the internet...