diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..efc84eba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+FROM continuumio/miniconda3
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget git
+RUN pip install git+git://github.com/pydicom/pydicom.git@affb1cf10c6be2aca311c29ddddc622f8bd1f810
+RUN mkdir /code
+ADD . /code
+WORKDIR /code
+RUN python /code/setup.py install
+
+RUN chmod 0755 /opt/conda/bin/deid
+ENTRYPOINT '/opt/conda/bin/deid'
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1874f445..d3b4e9a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ These are basic Python based tools for working with medical images and text, spe
 
 
 ## Installation
+
+### Local
 For the stable release, install via pip:
 
 ```
@@ -22,5 +24,12 @@ For the development version, install from Github:
 pip install git+git://github.com/pydicom/deid
 ```
 
+### Docker
+
+```
+docker build -t pydicom/deid .
+docker run pydicom/deid --help
+```
+
 ## Issues
 If you have an issue, or want to request a feature, please do so on our [issues board](https://www.github.com/pydicom/deid/issues)
diff --git a/deid/version.py b/deid/version.py
index 5181fd30..cd1ab06c 100644
--- a/deid/version.py
+++ b/deid/version.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
 
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = (
 
-    ('flask', {'min_version': '0.12'}),
-    ('flask-restful', {'min_version': None}),
     ('requests', {'min_version': '2.12.4'}),
     ('retrying', {'min_version': '1.3.3'}),
     ('simplejson', {'min_version': '3.10.0'}),