DICOM tag · De-identification

Patient Identity Removed (0012,0062)

By Aviram Biton, Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS · Published November 14, 2026

Tag(0012,0062)

KeywordPatientIdentityRemoved

VRCS

VM1

What it holds

YES or NO: whether patient identity has been removed from the object.

In migrations and validation

Set to YES by de-identification software. Do not treat it as proof: it records what the software claims, not what a review verified.

Related tags

De-identification Method (0012,0063): DeidentificationMethod, LO
Burned In Annotation (0028,0301): BurnedInAnnotation, CS

Tag, keyword, VR and VM per the DICOM standard, PS3.6 data dictionary. Notes by DICOMATICS. Looking for another tag? Use the DICOM tag lookup.

About the author

Aviram Biton

Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS

Aviram Biton founded DICOMATICS and leads its engineering work. He has spent two decades with medical imaging data: PACS and VNA migrations, multi-site consolidations, interfaces and data quality for US hospitals and health systems.

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