We'll be down for a couple of hours today starting at 4pm ET (2000h GMT) as we upgrade our website software. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Two new product bulletins have been posted. Resolutions to these two issues have already been incorporated in the source code.  We anticipate new versions of the products that contain the fixes will be available sometime in the fall of 2010.

Northwestern University researchers affiliated with the U.S. National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) initiative have just uploaded a great new plugin for ClearCanvas Workstation that allows users to markup images in a standardized way.  Be sure to download it from our plugin repository and check it out!

A Windows update caused our SMTP server to go down for a day yesterday, so unfortunately, any user registration emails that should have been sent, were not sent out. The problem has now been corrected.

After an intense development and testing cycle, ClearCanvas RIS/PACS 2.0 is now finally available! This big new release introduces a number of new features, including MPR in the Workstation, personal worklists in the RIS, and a number of performance improvements in the ImageServer. We are very excited about all the things that 2.0 has to offer. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it! Be sure to check our great new videos too! (Note that this release also resolves the issue described in Product Bulletin 002.)

A defect has been discovered in ClearCanvas Workstation 1.5 and 1.5 SP1 that has resulted in a product recall. Though the risk of harm to patients is low, we have decided to suspend access to the downloads so that new users will not be affected. Please read Product Bulletin 002 to understand the problem and take the appropriate actions. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may cause.

We are very pleased to announce that the ClearCanvas RIS/PACS is now Health Canada licensed, allowing it to be used for clinical purposes in Canada. Health Canada is the first in a series of regulatory licenses we will be applying for in 2010. Stay tuned for more!

 ClearCanvas is not only a RIS/PACS, it's also a development platform that allows you to extend it the way you see fit. See what some folks in the medical imaging research community have done with ClearCanvas on our new Videos page!

We're only a few weeks away from releasing 2.0, but we wanted to make the next pre-release version available to you all so you can help us catch any last remaining bugs. Download 2.0 Beta and let us know what you think!

Well, it's that time of the year again! As in previous years, we'll be walking the show floor at RSNA from Sunday to Wednesday. If you'd like to meet up with us this year, just drop me a note at norman AT clearcanvas DOT ca and we can arrange a time and place that works for both you and us.