About anonymization

OptosAdvance supports anonymization of studies for research, clinical trials or any other workflow which requires patient confidentiality. Anonymization allows you to remove identifying and confidential patient information from studies.

To anonymize studies, do the following:

1. Create confidentiality profiles that define how patient data will be anonymized (see Manage confidentiality profiles). You can also use the default confidentiality profile, called Nominal.
2. (Optional) Create confidentiality masks that define regions of an image that contain patient data as part of the image. These areas will be redacted to obscure the patient data. Masks are only applied if enabled in the confidentiality profile.
3. Assign a confidentiality profile to a worklist or folder (see Manage worklists and Manage folders). Patient data for studies in the worklist or folder will be anonymized when the study is viewed in the Patient Study Directory or the image viewer. This anonymization is temporary; the original study data is not modified.

   Note
   Studies are only anonymized when opened from a worklist or folder that contains the Deidentify option. Regular patient data will appear if a study is opened from the Patient Study Directory.

4. Create a permanent anonymized copy of a study by applying a confidentiality profile when downloading a study, series or image (see Download studies, series or images).