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.

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.

After nothing less than a herculean effort, we are very proud to launch ClearCanvas 1.3!  This is a huge release for us, as it includes Workstation 1.3, ImageServer 1.3 and the long awaited RIS.  Be sure to download our new products, try a live demo of the integrated RIS/PACS client and let us know what you think!

RSNA 2008 is right around the corner, and this year, our friends at Calgary Scientific (South Building - Hall A: 3265) will be showcasing an integrated ClearCanvas/Calgary Scientific advanced visualization solution.  If you'd like to see a demo and/or would like to chat with us over coffee, please email me (norman AT clearcanvas DOT ca) and we can setup a time to meet. We'll be there from Sunday to Wednesday.  See you in Chicago!

Our hosting provider has informed us that they have scheduled a downtime for this weekend starting Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 10pm EDT and lasting for up to 24 hours, as they switch datacenters.  During this period, clearcanvas.ca will be down.  We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

The ClearCanvas Community Plugins repository is now up and running!  This is really exciting because it'll be the place where users and developers meet. Developers can share their latest innovations with a global community of users.  Users can download and try these plugins and provide feedback to the developers. We invite all of you, whether you're a user or developer, to check it out here.

With ClearCanvas Workstation and SDK 1.2 comes a powerful new feature:  The Clipboard.  The clipboard allows you to easily select images of interest and send them to a staging area where you can do something useful with them later.  We've added a couple of "something useful" clipboard tools to help demonstrate the potential of the clipboard, namely tools that allow you to export to image (JPG, PNG, etc.) and export to video (AVI).  Our hope is that with the help of the SDK, developers in the ClearCanvas community will be able to develop new clipboard tools, like key image saving, DICOM printing, etc.

Of course, the clipboard isn't all that's in 1.2.  Other features in this version include:

Thumbnails Study anonymization Ability to load (though not receive) DICOM JPEG and JPEG2000 images. Be sure to read more about it and download...

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We are delighted to announce our involvement with the Imaging Pipeline Platform - Cancer Clinical Trials Project (IPP-Trials). IPP-Trials is an important new research initiative funded by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research that will bring cutting edge imaging techniques and analyses to the clinical environment.  Find out what IPP-Trials is all about here.

Our founding partner, the Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) at the University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital and Women's College Hospital has played a vital role in the development of our open source RIS/PACS.  Together, we have sought to really understand the needs of users to deliver a system that meets JDMI's demanding workflow requirements.  Read more about JDMI's RIS/PACS strategy here.

It's been a busy few months since our inaugural release of ClearCanvas ImageServer, but we're ready to go with a brand new version--0.95!  Perhaps the most noticeable feature of this new release is the massive overhaul of the web UI.  Check out the screenshots, and you'll know what we mean.  That said, be assured that 0.95 is not just about pretty web pages. We've been working hard on beefing up the core functionality of the product.  Here are a few of the new features you'll find in 0.95:

Created a new 64-bit installer. Added support for DICOM transfers in JPEG Baseline, JPEG Extended, JPEG Lossless, RLE, and JPEG2000. Added a new policy mechanism for dealing with duplicate images. For a full list of new features, click here. Be sure to download it, check out the updated user's guide,...

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