Just a word of thanks to all of you who came by our booth at SCAR the past three days. We’re grateful for the opportunities we’ve had to talk with you about what we’re doing with open source in healthcare informatics. With the release of the source code and documentation for Workstation 0.9, we hope that we can begin building a community of users, developers and testers. We’re well aware that its usability, stability, performance and feature set must be improved before it’s viable in a clinical context. And we want you to be a part of that. We want to hear about what’s good, what’s okay, and what’s downright bad. We want developers to experiment by writing plugins, testers to find bugs and users to test for usability. We want you to feel the same sense of ownership as we do. We invite you to join us in building an industrial-strength PACS viewer that can be extended on your terms and is freely accessible to all!

If you’re planning on attending SCAR 2006 in Austin this week, be sure to come by Booth 443. We’ll be handing out free CDs of ClearCanvas Workstation 0.9, complete with source code and plugin development guide. We’ll also be demonstrating a Linux version (yes, Linux!) of Workstation as well. By exhibiting at SCAR, we hope to start building an open source community that will move CC Workstation towards being a full-featured, high quality, easy-to-use PACS viewer, that also happens to be free and thus accessible to all.