AWS HealthImaging now supports DICOMweb BulkData

AWS HealthImaging announces support for DICOM BulkData to ensure consistent, low latency metadata retrievals. With this launch, DICOM metadata retrieved via DICOMweb WADO-RS actions will have large data elements substituted with BulkDataURIs.

Medical imaging workflows demand low latency, and retrieving DICOM metadata is often a first step. Large DICOM data elements, such as private attributes and ICC profiles, can increase the size of metadata payloads, potentially slowing down retrieval and processing. With this launch, HealthImaging automatically replaces DICOM data elements over 1 MB in size with in-line BulkDataURIs, in accordance with the DICOMweb standard. Now users can retrieve compact DICOM metadata payloads with low latency, with flexibility to download large data elements through a standards-conformant API.

AWS HealthImaging is generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland).

AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers, life sciences researchers, and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. To learn more, see the AWS HealthImaging Developer Guide.