AWS HealthImaging releases
The following table shows when features and updates were released for the AWS HealthImaging service and documentation. For more information on a release, see the linked topic.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Support for DICOMweb data imports and DICOMweb Bulkdata | HealthImaging HealthImaging supports storing DICOM P10 files via the DICOMweb STOW-RS protocol. See Importing data for more details. Additionally, HealthImaging supports DICOM Bulkdata to ensure consistent, low latency metadata retrievals. See Getting DICOM bulkdata for more information. | June 30, 2025 |
Automatic data organization, DICOMweb QIDO-RS search, and DICOMweb WADO-RS enhancements | HealthImaging provides automatic organization of DICOM P10 data on import according to the Patient, Study, and Series level hierarchy of the DICOM standard. For more information see Understanding import jobs. HealthImaging supports rich search, per the DICOMweb QIDO-RS standard. See Searching DICOM data in HealthImaging for more information. HealthImaging supports retrieving the metadata for all DICOM instances in a series via a single API action, as described in Getting DICOM series metadata from HealthImaging. | May 22, 2025 |
Image set creation uses fewer DICOM elements | HealthImaging decreases the number of elements used when grouping incoming DICOM P10 objects into image sets. For more information, see What is an image set?. | January 27, 2025 |
Lossy support for StartDICOMImportJob | HealthImaging supports importing and storing DICOM lossy files (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.203, 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.91, 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.50) and binary segmentation files in their original format. For more information, see Supported transfer syntaxes. | November 1, 2024 |
Lossy support for DICOMweb retrieval APIs | HealthImaging supports retrieving images and instances stored in 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.203, 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.91, 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.50, and 1.2.840.10008.1.2.1 (binary segmentation only) in their original format or in Explicit VR Little Endian (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1). For more information, see Supported transfer syntaxes and Retrieving DICOM data. | November 1, 2024 |
Faster imports for digital pathology | HealthImaging supports up to 6x faster import jobs for DICOM digital pathology (WSI). | November 1, 2024 |
Binary segmentation support | HealthImaging supports both ingestion and retrieval of DICOM binary segmentation files. For more information, see Supported transfer syntaxes. | November 1, 2024 |
Revert to a previous image set version ID | HealthImaging provides the | July 24, 2024 |
Force functionality for image set modification | HealthImaging provides the
| July 24, 2024 |
Copy subsets of SOP Instances | HealthImaging enhances the | July 24, 2024 |
GetDICOMInstanceMetadata for returning DICOM instance metadata | HealthImaging provides the | July 11, 2024 |
GetDICOMInstanceFrames for returning DICOM instance frames (pixel data) | HealthImaging provides the | July 11, 2024 |
Enhanced support for non-standard DICOM data imports | HealthImaging provides support for data imports that include deviations from the DICOM standard. For more information, see DICOM element constraints.
| June 28, 2024 |
Event notifications | HealthImaging integrates with Amazon EventBridge to support event-driven applications. For more information, see Using EventBridge. | June 5, 2024 |
GetDICOMInstance for returning DICOM instance data | HealthImaging provides the | May 15, 2024 |
Cross-account import | HealthImaging provides support for data imports from Amazon S3 buckets located in other supported Regions. For more information, see Cross-account import. | May 15, 2024 |
Search enhancements for image sets | HealthImaging
| April 3, 2024 |
Maximum file size for imports increased | HealthImaging supports a 4 GB maximum file size for each DICOM P10 file in an import job. For more information, see Service quotas. | March 6, 2024 |
Transfer syntaxes for JPEG Lossless and HTJ2K | HealthImaging provides support for the following transfer syntaxes for job imports. For more information, see Supported transfer syntaxes.
| February 16, 2024 |
Tested code examples | HealthImaging documentation provides tested code examples for AWS CLI and AWS SDKs for Python, JavaScript, Java, and C++. For more information, see Code examples. | December 19, 2023 |
Maximum file number for imports increased | HealthImaging supports up to 5,000 files for a single import job. For more information, see Service quotas. | December 19, 2023 |
Nested folders for imports | HealthImaging supports up to 10,000 nested folders for a single import job. For more information see Service quotas. | December 1, 2023 |
Faster imports | HealthImaging provides 20X faster imports in all supported Regions. For more information, see Service endpoints. | December 1, 2023 |
AWS CloudFormation support | HealthImaging supports infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning data stores. For more information, see Creating HealthImaging resources with AWS CloudFormation. | September 21, 2023 |
General availability | AWS HealthImaging is available to all customers in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. For more information, see Service endpoints. | July 26, 2023 |
