This past Friday (Jan 16), we presented a paper at the International Conference on Health Informatics in Porto, Portugal entitled Commercial Open Source RIS/PACS--The ClearCanvas Experience.  We were part of a workshop on Open Source in European Healthcare. It was a great opportunity to hear about other open source healthcare informatics projects around the world, as well as offer our perspective on the subject.

We are delighted to announce that on Jan 13, 2009, Canada's first open source RIS went live at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.  Complete with speech recognition from Nuance, the ClearCanvas RIS has processed 701 verified reports to date.  The go-live at WCH is the culmination of almost three years of hard work and represents the first phase of our large scale open source RIS/PACS deployment at JDMI.