STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that PharmaPendium, a source of preclinical, clinical and post-market data, has added a new module to its content base, the Metabolizing Enzymes and Transporters Module.

The addition of the module to PharmaPendium's existing content is projected to give researchers a greater understanding and visibility of Drug-Drug Interactions (DDI) and their potential adverse reactions during the critical stages of drug discovery and development.

The new module will reportedly benefit researchers including toxicologists, pharmacokinetics researchers and departments, safety pharmacologists and clinical pharmacologists, who demand the highest quality data on preclinical and clinical metabolising enzymes and transporters. These researchers often struggle to find comparative data to understand how changes in the activity of metabolising enzymes and transporters affect the safety and efficacy of drugs. Currently, available information on DDIs is seen to be hard to collate and analyse and is not always normalised for comparison, making data analysis not only labour and cost intensive, but also open to critical error.

PharmaPendium's Metabolising Enzymes and Transporters Module is said to allow for rapid, full text-search of literature from sources including approval documents from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA). It extracts both in vivo and in vitrohuman and animal experimental data on metabolising enzymes and transporters contained in preclinical and clinical studies, and applies it to the context of researchers' experiments, facilitating efficient and diligent drug development.

PharmaPendium is part of Elsevier's Life Science Solutions, a suite of interoperable, domain-specific, decision support tools which span the discovery and development workflow, including Reaxys, Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry, ScienceDirect, Scopus, TargetInsights, Pathway Studio and Embase.

PharmaPendium Metabolising Enzymes and Transporters Module is available immediately. For more information go to www.elsevier.com/pharmapendium.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has expanded its partnership with BMJ to be the exclusive aggregated information provider of the BMJ Clinical Evidence resource on its OvidSP platform. Ovid will offer BMJ Clinical Evidence to medical and academic institutions globally to support clinicians, researchers, educators and students make decisions on quality care and improve patient outcomes through effective evidence-based clinical practice.

BMJ Clinical Evidence claims to be a unique decision-support resource that summarizes the current state of knowledge about medical interventions used in prevention and treatment of clinical conditions. Developed by selecting and appraising primary research literature to create rigorous systematic reviews of evidence on the benefits and harms of clinical interventions, the database consists of three parts: evidence-based medicine methodology, a database of more than 250 systematic treatment reviews for over 3,200 interventions and a suite of resources and tools - including critical appraisal checklists - designed to help put the evidence into practice.

OvidSP is a single online destination for conducting efficient and effective medical research, whether users are managing large-scale, document-intensive projects or making time-sensitive, evidence-based decisions. They can search BMJ Clinical Evidence and other EBM resources simultaneously with full-text ejournals and ebooks with just a single search query. In addition, they can manage their search results and research documents - all within the OvidSP platform.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Medi-Span customers still have time to add previously released files to map Medi-Span proprietary vocabularies to ICD-10, helping to meet the Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) compliance requirements by the October 2014 deadline.

Nearly one year ago, Medi-Span launched ICD-10 mapping files for its customers to map Medi-Span proprietary vocabularies to ICD-10, helping customers to meet HHS compliance requirements before the previously-set deadline. Several Medi-Span clinical content sets utilise proprietary vocabularies to identify diseases, conditions and procedures. These include Drug Disease Monitoring System, Medical Conditions Master Database, The Medi-Span Solution or Middleware COM, Drug Information Bridge, and Medi-Span Clinical. Medi-Span continues to support its customers with the flexibility to either continue with existing Medi-Span solutions or to implement more current and advanced Medi-Span offerings to meet the ICD-10 requirements. Available in flat file and API solutions, these files help enable healthcare systems to translate to and from codes in the patient record, supporting interoperability.

Part of Wolters Kluwer Health, Medi-Span is a provider of drug information for thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide. With more than 30 years experience, Medi-Span continues to offer authoritative drug databases in a variety of formats, including clinical decision support and disease suite modules, application programming interfaces and stand-alone software applications.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced an extension of its long-term partnership with publisher John Wiley & Sons to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. The new agreement includes the addition of Early View (pre-publication) articles from Wiley journals on Ovid.

Ovid's aggregated medical research solution delivers exceptional value to researchers and practitioners in its mission to provide users with the most current content available from its publishing partners. In addition to the journals, Ovid also licenses over 700 ebooks from Wiley.

The OvidSP platform is a single destination for conducting efficient and effective medical research whether managing large scale document-intensive projects or making time-sensitive, evidence-based decisions. Users can search and discover current full text ejournals and ebooks, as well as bibliographic information, plus manage their results and research documents - all within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP combines leading search technology with powerful productivity tools to help users save time in the research process, so they can focus on the output of their work to answer important patient questions, uncover new theories, and make groundbreaking contributions to their field.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that UpToDate, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, has enhanced the quality of patient care at Grupo Hospitalar Conceição (GHC) in Porte Alegre and increased physician satisfaction in its use for effective clinical support and training.

UpToDate is a frequently-updated, evidence-based resource authored by leading medical doctors to help make the right decisions at the point of care. In 2007, GHC was evaluating clinical decision support options and UpToDate was selected not only to improve care for patients but also for training and continuing professional development and medical education.

Hospital management at GHC encouraged adoption of UpToDate and facilitated access by offering a link to UpToDate on every computer to ensure doctors could use it anywhere in the institution, at any time. This, coupled with effective strategies for implementation, led to a consistently steady increase in usage. Clinicians who were familiar with UpToDate immediately started using it and they, in turn, served as a collaborative resource for others who were new to UpToDate.

Doctors routinely consult UpToDate for an array of topics across a wide range of specialties, seeing UpToDate as an essential tool in every department.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and Thieme, an international medical and science publisher, have announced an expansion of their licensing partnership to offer 10 new journals, for a total of 26 titles, available on the OvidSP medical research platform.

The new Thieme content covers specialised surgery, alternative medicine, spine, and pediatrics areas to complement the breadth of full text currently available on Ovid. The Thieme titles include Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction; European Journal of Pediatric Surgery; Global Spine Journal & Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal; Homoeopathic Links; International Journal of Angiology; Journal of Knee Surgery; Journal of Neurological Surgery; Journal of Wrist Surgery; Neuropediatrics; and The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.

The OvidSP platform is a single destination for conducting efficient and effective medical research whether managing large scale document-intensive projects or making time-sensitive, evidence-based decisions. Users can search and discover current full text ejournals and ebooks, as well as bibliographic information, plus manage their results and research documents - all within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP combines leading search technology with powerful productivity tools to help users save time in the research process, so they can focus on the output of their work to answer important patient questions, uncover new theories, and make groundbreaking contributions to their field.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of PracticeUpdate, a free website featuring high-quality, relevant medical information and education resources. The site is aimed at the millions of physicians who seek news and articles to help them diagnose and treat their patients. PracticeUpdate is free to registered users and supported by advertisers.

PracticeUpdate cuts through volumes of information for its users, who register and create profiles, which enable PracticeUpdate's editorial board to hand-select the peer-reviewed journal content that will help physicians of any specialty generate better outcomes for their patients. It helps clinicians, who do not have time to run through hundreds of articles published every day, stay current with their industry and their specialties.

PracticeUpdate will launch with oncology, cardiology, dermatology, eye care (ophthalmology and optometry), primary care, and urology, with more to be added later this year.

The expert editors-in-chief of PracticeUpdate include Dr. Lee S. Schwartzberg (Oncology); Dr. Douglas P. Zipes (Cardiology); Dr. Robert T. Brodell (Dermatology); Dr. Paul B. Freeman, and Dr. Myron Yanoff (Eye Care co-editors-in-chief); Dr. David Rakel (Primary Care); and Dr. Alan J. Wein (Urology).

The forerunner for PracticeUpdate is Elsevier's OncologySTAT, which launched in 2007 and was Elsevier's first free site aimed at oncologists and supported by advertising. Today the OncologySTAT community is composed of about 65,000 healthcare practitioners (other types of physicians, nurses, healthcare workers) in the US and around the world, including more than 8,000 self-identified U.S. oncologists and hematologists. OncologySTAT's registered users will be able to transition to the oncology portal of the new PracticeUpdate to access the same content they have come to expect.

In addition, PracticeUpdate will deliver the ability for users to fine-tune their content based on specialty and other interests and will include community features enabling validated physicians to share their practice experiences.

PracticeUpdate operates independently from any particular professional society or sponsor and offers multiple marketing and promotional opportunities, including targeted advertising and sponsorship of specific site sections or content types.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and Amirsys, Inc., a provider of healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy, have announced a partnership to offer the Amirsys Imaging Reference Center and nearly 60 Amirsys ebooks via the OvidSP medical research platform.

The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center blends thousands of high-quality, representative images and relevant diagnosis and clinical text contributed by thousands of imaging experts, enabling clinicians to quickly make well-informed image-based treatment decisions.

The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center will be available to hospitals, residency programmes, medical schools, and other healthcare institutions globally as an annual subscription or as a single, one-time purchase on OvidSP.

The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center includes over 70,000 CT scans, X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, full-colour illustrations, and other images. More than 4,000 common, classical diagnoses as well as clinical text supported by over 40,000 journal references provide critical clinical context to the images, helping users to order and review imaging tests and studies and diagnose patients based on radiological images. Images and topics are searchable by medical specialty and organ system, and users can print or download images and content for easy use in the office, in presentations, or in the classroom.

In addition to the Amirsys Imaging Reference Center, fifty-nine ebooks from Amirsys will be coming to the OvidSP platform. These include the award-winning Osborn's Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy, the successor to one of the bestselling neuroradiology books which covers the fundamentals, techniques, and modalities of brain imaging and includes over 2,000 annotated images. Three cost-effective book collections will also be available: the Amirsys Diagnostic Radiology Book Collection, Amirsys Diagnostic Pathology Book Collection and Amirsys Diagnostic Reference Collection.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that clinicians in the UK can now access authoritative and trusted guidance on the selection and use of medicines from the British National Formulary (BNF) directly from DynaMed, an evidence-based clinical information resource. EBSCO announced that DynaMed drug topics now include links to the corresponding BNF topics which can be accessed by BNF subscribers.

The links allow clinicians to consult UK specific information on selecting, prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines at the point-of-care in concert with the evidence-based reference information available in DynaMed. BNF is the latest UK resource to be accessible through DynaMed, joining the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines; Patient UK Links; and links to electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC).

The BNF provides UK healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Published monthly online and biannually in print, the BNF is a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Duncan Enright, the Publishing Director of the BNF at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, believes that the inclusion of the BNF links in DynaMed will ensure that subscribers using DynaMed will have access to the most trusted UK drug information.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that British Columbia's Divisions of Family Practice has selected UpToDate as its evidence-based clinical decision support system. By integrating UpToDate into its member portal, the organisation's 4,000 practitioners can access the latest evidence-based information at the point of care and accrue Main-Pro CMS credits for each search performed.

Divisions of Family Practice is a community-based group of family physicians working together to achieve common healthcare goals. The initiative supports 32 non-profit agencies, including most family practices in British Columbia, encompassing 127 communities. The Divisions of Family Practice is focused on improving patient care, increasing family physicians' influence on healthcare delivery and policy, and providing professional satisfaction for physicians.

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical knowledge system which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate's more than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesise the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has made available eBook Clinical Collection, a new e-book subscription product for clinical settings, biomedical libraries and academic-medical institutions.

eBook Clinical Collection features more than 1,700 titles in medical specialties, nursing, allied health and general practice. The titles in the collection begin in 2008 and regular updates are made so that newer titles replace the oldest content.

The collection includes titles from publishers that include Springer Publishing, De Gruyter, Wiley, SAGE Publications, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Emerald, Clinical Publishing Oxford, World Scientific Publishing Company, Landes Bioscience and Elsevier Science.

eBook Clinical Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with unlimited access to the content and optional downloading. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. As with all e-books available from EBSCO, eBook Clinical Collection is integrated and works seamlessly with all EBSCOhost content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases bringing together e-books, periodicals and other content for a seamless search experience.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that it has leveraged functionality from its Lexicomp and UpToDate solutions to create a comprehensive, embedded patient education offering for hospitals.

The Integrated Patient Education solution allows pharmacists, physicians and nurses to easily access patient education from within applications they use most often, minimising disruptions to daily workflow, improving efficiency and enhancing patient care.

Available in up to 19 languages, the Integrated Patient Education solution provides consistent information between Lexicomp and UpToDate, helping to eliminate the potential for discrepancies or conflicting data. Patients and family members receive reliable and consistent information from clinicians, and hospitals experience increased efficiencies, decreased costs, and improved patient outcomes by consolidating resource content through one vendor.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has aligned its clinical decision support (CDS) and clinical reference solutions to help healthcare providers and payers achieve clinical, operational and financial excellence.

The latest example of this alignment is InOrder by Elsevier, an intuitive, cloud-based order set solution that enables clinicians to author, review and publish orders in a collaborative environment that quickly translates evidence-based knowledge into better patient care. By combining Elsevier's experience in providing evidence-based content and the capability to make updates rapidly as regulations and medications change, InOrder is expected to help hospitals and clinicians increase patient safety and prevent medical errors.

Elsevier will demonstrate its integrated solutions at its booth (#6129) at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS13) annual meeting in New Orleans, March 4-6.

Using a patient-centered approach, Elsevier claims to have aligned an integrated suite of capabilities for healthcare providers unmatched in the industry. These include analytics & reporting, drug reference & decision support, learning & performance management, evidence-based guidelines, clinical content & order sets, interdisciplinary care planning & documentation and patient education and engagement.

Also at HIMSS13, Elsevier will present several new and enhanced product solutions. Dr Jonathan Teich, PhD, FHIMSS, FACMI, Elsevier's Chief Medical Informatics Officer, will host a special breakfast briefing called 'A New Approach to Practical, Usable Order Sets' on March 4. The briefing will examine the challenges of order sets and how Elsevier's new solution, InOrder, addresses those challenges. Those interested in attending should register online.

Elsevier will also demonstrate ClinicalKey, a clinical insight engine that provides current and clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals. At HIMSS13, ClinicalKey will also salute the winners of its first Key Innovator Award contest.

Elsevier's MEDai analytics group will demonstrate the Physician Portal and Physician Profiler in its new MEDai Navigator solution and its new Pinpoint Risk product. Dr Peter Edelstein, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Elsevier's MEDai analytics group, will present on 'Predictive Analytics for the Bedside Provider' at the HIMSS13 Clinical & Business Analytics/Intelligence Knowledge Center, Booth #869, Kiosk #4, on March 4.

Elsevier's ExitCare will showcase two solutions for engaging patients. The first is ExitCare OnScreen, a video delivery system that delivers a collection of multimedia programmes through digital video, animated graphics and interactive questions. The second is ExitCare Program, a meaningful use certifiable solution that delivers print-based patient education. This will be featured in the HIMSS13 Meaningful Use Experience pavilion, kiosk #149-24.

Elsevier's Revenue Cycle eLearning will demonstrate its phased, role-based planning and online education resources for ICD-10 that ensure hospital staff receive the right training at the right time. At the ICD-10 Knowledge Center (booth #4581, kiosk #2) on March 4, ICD-10 expert Deb Neville, RHIA, CCS-P, Elsevier's Director of Revenue Cycle, Coding and Compliance, will present 'ICD-10 Transition: Building Confidence.'

Two of Elsevier's nationally known thought leaders will be active at HIMSS13. Dr. Teich will present the closing keynote – 'The Future of Healthcare Innovation' – at the HIMSS Innovation Symposium on March 3. And Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP, FAANRN, Elsevier's Chief Professional Practice Officer, will co-present a HIMSS Educational Session on 'TIGER IMPACT: Measuring VLE Metrics and More of the TIGER Story!' on March 4.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the introduction of ProVation Care Plans, powered by Lippincott's Nursing Solutions. The robust software solution that provides nurses and allied health professionals with the tools they need to create, customise and maintain evidence-based interdisciplinary care plans.

ProVation Care Plans, powered by Lippincott's Nursing Solutions offers evidence-based care plans developed by the expert Lippincott's Nursing Solutions team and its network of hundreds of practicing clinicians. Combined with the dynamic ProVation software, it allows hospitals to define and maintain a custom care plans library while adhering to industry-accepted nursing and medical diagnoses, goals and interventions. ProVation Care Plans supports the care plan customisation process, utilising a full suite of embedded links to online, evidence-based practice content from Lippincott's Nursing Solutions.

Created in partnership with Lippincott's Nursing Solutions, the leading international provider of online evidence-based practice workflow products, customers can customise care plan templates and then import them into their electronic medical record (EMR) system for clinicians to use as a basis for care. When combined with full access to the Lippincott's Nursing Solutions product suite, clinicians can, at the point of care through their EMR, directly access both care plan information and all accompanying evidence-based content needed to effectively manage care. The total solution provides the latest evidence-based practice at the bedside, which supports the providers' need to improve their performance measures and quality indicators, helping health systems better manage patient care.

Driven by the best available evidence from Lippincott's Nursing Solutions, UpToDate and Ovid MEDLINE, ProVation Care Plans ensure that interdisciplinary care teams have the information they need to enhance clinical practice and demonstrate compliance with credentialing and standards for the Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Medi-Span solution has been expanded to include a new Patient Safety Programs File. The application enables health IT systems to rapidly identify drugs containing specific characteristics that require surveillance based on federal regulations.

Along with its ability to help facilitate compliance with government reporting requirements, the Patient Safety Programs File also supports the development of patient safety initiatives. It does this by incorporating drug indicators into the workflows of clinician end-users.

The application identifies drugs that require a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) programme and includes a summary of the REMS programmes. This summary can be incorporated directly into the clinician's workflow to provide the type of information they need for the programme when at the point of care. The file can also include the associated Medication Guides as reported by the manufacturer in PDF and PCL5 formats.

Other supported indicators include Black Box Warnings (BBW) including text of warning in XML format, Medication Guide Requirements outside of REMS, Acetaminophen Ingredient, Pseudoephedrine Ingredient and Tall Man Drug Names.

By adding the Patient Safety Programs File to its Medi-Span drug database offerings, WK Health seeks to equip healthcare organisations with the automation needed to help rapidly pinpoint potential problem drugs, streamline compliance and achieve the highest level of patient safety.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that it has developed a multi-faceted approach to addressing alert fatigue through its Medi-Span clinical decision support solutions. Medi-Span is said to combine its functionality for alert customisation and regular clinical content updates with 35 years of on-site clinical consulting experience to create a holistic solution to the significant challenge of clinicians bypassing alerts.

To address the need for alert balance, Medi-Span Clinical allows for alert customisation by site, department or end-user to reduce the number of irrelevant alerts by user type. Alongside this customisation, the solution provides contextual alerting content that considers patient profile data such as symptoms, age, weight, gender and renal function to create smarter and more relevant alerts.

Medi-Span clinical decision support solutions are seen to back this with regular updating of clinical content based on industry changes, which eliminates outdated clinical alerts, and a team of seasoned consultants who can help healthcare organisations and users optimise the Medi-Span solutions within their systems.

DynaMed, a clinical reference that seeks to offer timely updates and a strong evidence-based approach, has announced an agreement with Isabel Healthcare, which produces the highly respected differential diagnosis tool Isabel. The integration and the new reselling agreement seamlessly extends evidence-based medicine into diagnosis decision-making.

Extending evidence-based medicine into diagnosis will give clinicians key information necessary to help differentiate between the diagnoses suggested by Isabel and to decide on the next steps. Mutual customers can link from Isabel to access the evidence-based information in DynaMed, and it is now even easier for customers to acquire and integrate the two resources. The recently expanded partnership between DynaMed and Isabel allows healthcare organisations to easily purchase Isabel directly from EBSCO Publishing, the parent company of DynaMed.

The strength of these combined resources along with DynaMed's and Isabel's ability to integrate into most Electronic Health Record systems, make it a convenient and indispensible tool for answering most clinical questions during practice.

Isabel is projected as the industry-leading diagnosis decision support system designed to help broaden the differential and provide testing and treatment information at the point of need. For a given set of signs and symptoms, Isabel presents the clinician with a list of likely diagnoses to consider, and each diagnosis is linked to knowledge to help with further investigation, potential testing and treatment. The Isabel system has been extensively validated and is currently being used by leading healthcare systems to improve efficiency in decision making.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Bali Royal Hospital has selected UpToDate as its evidence-based clinical decision support system. The hospital represents the first UpToDate client in Indonesia.

Bali Royal Hospital opened its doors in 2010 to provide comprehensive medical services to local patients and tourists in the city of Bali and across East Indonesia. The facility selected UpToDate to increase physician adoption of the latest industry best practices across its four centers of excellence - in vitro fertilization, endoscopy, neuroscience and cosmetic surgery - as well as homecare and general medical practice.

Part of WK Health, UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical knowledge system which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate's more than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.

More than 700,000 clinicians in 158 countries and almost 90 percent of academic medical centers in the US rely on UpToDate, and more than 30 research studies confirm UpToDate's widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced length of stay, adverse complications and mortality.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Scripps Health has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical's award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in San Diego, Calif., Scripps Health is a private, non-profit integrated health system serving the southern coast of California from Chula Vista to Oceanside. It includes five acute-care hospital campuses, a network of 23 integrated outpatient clinics, home health services and 2,600 affiliated physicians.

Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has added new features including a Drug Identifier and a Drug Interactions Guide to Lippincott's Nursing Advisor. Nursing Advisor is one of the leading online clinical decision-support solutions used by nurses in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

The new Drug Identifier covers thousands of drugs and contains more than 5,000 colour images, organised by multiple descriptive attributes, to enable fast, accurate identification of patients' unlabeled medications. The update also adds a Drug Interactions Guide, which provides a fast and convenient way to look up interactions information for a single drug or between two or more specified drugs. Nurses can use it to view known interactions and to investigate interactions between drugs in specified contexts, such as patients with known drug allergies or with specific diseases or symptoms.

The new Lippincott's Nursing Advisor Drug Identifier allows a clinician to enter any combination of pill identification criteria including imprint code, colour, dose form, score and shape. In response, the programme provides the matching drug or drugs along with detailed attribute information and a thumbnail picture of the pill. Similarly, the Drug Interactions Guide allows the clinician to enter multiple drugs, plus patient drug allergies, diseases and symptoms, gender, age, pregnancy and smoking status in any combination. The programme returns a coloured symbol next to the drug name that indicates the severity level of drug reactions—from 'severe or life threatening' to 'may cause minor effects.'

Lippincott's Nursing Advisor includes 563 adult and paediatric individual disease entries and a total of more than 3,000 collective entries of critical, evidence-based information spanning diseases, treatments, diagnostic tests, drugs, signs & symptoms, nursing care plans and patient education. Using the system's proprietary synoptic search, the product delivers the appropriate entry within seconds of a nurse's inquiry. When a nurse requires further reference, access to 27 nursing-related eBooks is now available directly from the product.

Written by nurses for nurses, Lippincott's Nursing Advisor is the leading nurse-centric resource designed for online and mobile point-of-care environments. In use in hospitals and healthcare institutions worldwide, the product is accessible from any Internet-enabled device including PCs and mobile devices such as iPad and Android tablets.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and Natural Standard, the authority on integrative medicine, have announced a partnership to expand access to Natural Standard Database through Ovid’s medical research platform. Produced by The Natural Standard Research Collaboration, this up-to-date repository contains thousands of evidence-based systematic reviews on dietary supplements and other complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practices including modalities, special diets, and exercises.

Natural Standard reviews are compiled by over 500 experts in clinical trial analysis, epidemiology, pharmacology, and toxicology. Searchable monograph sections include study result summaries, statistical analysis of clinical trials, dosing, drug interactions, precautions, contraindications, adverse effects, allergies, use in pregnancy and lactation. Natural products, physical and mind-body therapies are rated with validated, reproducible evidence "report cards" based on scientific study criteria used by the respected U.S. Preventive Task Force.

Additional features include Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits made available to multidisciplinary professionals to earn in real time. Tools such as interactive calculators, symptom and interaction checkers, and patient handouts in multiple languages are also included to help improve healthcare decision-making and outcomes.

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a preview of its latest intelligence solution, Thomson Reuters Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence.

Scheduled for release in early 2013, this capability will provide drug development and clinical professionals with the critical information necessary to evaluate market opportunities, identify potential barriers, and establish informed decisions about clinical trial design and operations.

Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence is the latest information solution offered through Thomson Reuters Cortellis, the industry's premier Life Sciences information delivery platform. It claims to have the broadest remit of any clinical trials database including a 45-year history of clinical outcomes, as well as the latest market competitive activity from established and emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. This solution enables a customer to integrate their proprietary research data with comprehensive clinical trials protocols and outcomes, drug pipeline, biomarker, regulatory, financial and patent information from Thomson Reuters. With its integrated analytics tools and visualisations, users will have greater opportunities to maximise the value of clinical trial content to inform internal strategy and decision-making.

Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence optimises critical clinical trial functions by equipping R&D strategists with knowledge that helps them discover market opportunities and potential barriers. This solution enables efficient searching for competing trials as well as identifying countries rich in target populations. By empowering clinical development teams to better understand trial design trends, Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence allows them to design better and faster trials, while enabling marketing teams to pinpoint likely competitors.

The experts of Thomson Reuters' professional services also utilize Cortellis for Clinical Trial Intelligence and the company's other intelligence solutions - including translational medicine offerings and clinical development and portfolio strategy benchmarking - to support specific customer projects.

Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Covenant HealthCare has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance.

ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical's award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Saginaw, Mich., the 623-bed Covenant HealthCare is a non-profit health system with more than 20 inpatient and outpatient facilities and a trauma/emergency department that provides 80,000 visits annually. It is one of the largest, most comprehensive healthcare providers north of metro Detroit and is accredited by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP).

STM publisher Elsevier has announced that ExitCare, its enterprise-wide solution for evidence-based patient education and discharge instructions, is now integrated directly with the MEDITECH Electronic Health Record (EHR).

In collaboration with MEDITECH, ExitCare's library of content, organised by care setting and composed of both Easy to Read and Standard content, is available in English and Spanish through MEDITECH's EHR, via the Patient Discharge Instruction application. ExitCare's content is not only designed to offer healthcare providers an optimal user experience and more streamlined clinical workflow, but it is also intended to deliver relevant, condition-specific information to patients at the point of care.

Elsevier's ExitCare provides associated print, electronic and video patient education content and tools that are critical to increasing patient engagement and reducing readmissions. The solution also meets the emerging needs of both hospitals and office-based physicians who wish to provide a multimedia education experience for their patients. The ExitCare text-based content will also be fully accessible via MEDITECH's Patient & Consumer Health Portal offering, extending the integration benefits to wherever patients need it most.

ExitCare is also working closely with MEDITECH to bring customers ExitCare OnScreen, a video delivery system and content library for patient education. It is an engaging collection of multimedia programmes comprising digital video, interactive questions and animated graphics. Future integration within the MEDITECH platform will provide users the ability to launch ExitCare OnScreen and view reports directly from the MEDITECH application.

Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced a partnership with FX Conferences to provide easy access to thousands of hours of FX Conferences expert audio recordings designed for pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and other healthcare related industries. Through the partnership, FX Conferences resources will be accessible from the OvidSP platform, which claims to be one of the world's leading information search platforms for the medical and healthcare communities.

The recordings provide users with current information on federal requirements, approval processes, and legal developments, along with practical guidance specifically for professionals in a variety of corporate industries. Topics have a global appeal and are relevant for multiple departments - R & D, Market Research, Compliance, Product Development, and more.

Each of the recordings consists of a 45-minute, telephone-based presentation delivered by expert international speakers, followed by a 15-minute question-and-answer session. Ten recordings are grouped into 10 topic- and industry-specific collections and are available to Ovid customers with and without transcripts.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Lexicomp and UpToDate, both part of WK Health, have collaborated to enhance the patient education leaflets in the Lexicomp Online product to include new and updated content.

As a part of WK Health, Lexicomp collaborated with UpToDate to enhance the overall patient education offering in Lexicomp Online. As a result, Lexicomp Online now offers an increased number of leaflets in the areas of Conditions, Procedures, Discharge Instructions, and Healthy Living, totaling more than 2300 leaflets, all of which are available in both English and Spanish.

Lexicomp Online also offers more than 1800 adult medication leaflets and more than 1000 pediatric medication leaflets. All leaflets are written in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format (5th to 7th grade reading level) and are available in up to 19 languages to help support compliance and promote patient safety to a diverse patient population.

Later this quarter, WK Health will announce an upcoming enhancement to the patient education delivery capability of materials within Lexicomp Online, including a new and improved API along with HL7 Info Button compliance. This improved functionality will give healthcare systems the ability to include the full suite of patient education leaflets and build links to these patient education leaflets from within their workflow.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has signed a one-year agreement with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) and the Bodleian Libraries providing access to ClinicalKey. Launched earlier this year, ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest proprietary collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty.

Under the terms of the agreement, all OUH staff and all University of Oxford clinical medical students will have access to ClinicalKey's content, which includes more than 900 textbooks, 500 top medical journals and 9,000 procedural videos, providing the most current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals.

OUH is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the UK, offering access to 11 million printed items, in addition to 50,000 e-journals.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Beaufort Memorial Hospital has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as the hospital’s electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets claims to be an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance.

ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Beaufort, S.C., the 197-bed Beaufort Memorial Hospital is home to more than 150 board certified or board-eligible physicians. Situated on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the hospital is one of the few hospitals in the country with its own emergency dock. Beaufort Memorial Hospital is a Duke Affiliate in heart and cancer and is Joint Commission-accredited.

DynaMed, a clinical reference that seeks to offer timely updates and a strong evidence-based approach, has reportedly become more well-known among clinicians and other healthcare professionals. Now, guideline developers, adapters, implementers and users are taking notice, according to the company. A recent breast cancer guideline commissioned by Seguro Social, Costa Rica's public health system, is said to have been completed in a much shorter timeframe, with a smaller staff and for less money by using DynaMed plus two existing guidelines as the starting point. DynaMed is a proprietary database of EBSCO Publishing, US.

It is observed that guidelines are typically developed using a lengthy process to identify the current evidence related to any intervention for a particular condition, evaluate the current evidence and summarise the evidence. Development can take 18-24 months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Costa Rican development team was given six months. The guideline was completed in five months, and on budget.

Dr. Mario Tristan is the Chairperson and Director-General of the International Health Central American Institute and the Director of Cochrane Central America and the Spanish Caribbean Branch. He, along with CCSS Medical Advisor Dr. Anggie Ramirez, was tasked with creating the breast cancer guideline in Costa Rica. He says by using DynaMed guideline developers were able to dramatically reduce the time it takes to perform a comprehensive search of the literature and find relevant studies.

The Costa Rican team's use of DynaMed was presented at the recent Guidelines International Network Conference (G-I-N) piquing the interest of many guideline developers wanting to know more about the methodology used in Costa Rica and evaluating how DynaMed can be used for guideline development support.

According to DynaMed representatives, the benefits do not stop with guideline creation since the tool is also able to disseminate the guidelines to clinicians and provide alerts to guideline developers when new evidence is introduced — evidence that may impact existing guidelines.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide's Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). JBI is an international producer of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources and tools.

Ovid, part of WK Health, will be the exclusive channel for JBI's complete EBP solution on its OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid research platforms. These platforms are used by more than 12,500 institutions globally.

Through the partnership, current JBI members will have dual access to their resources on OvidSP, which offers robust searching and productivity tools, as well as JBI's COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) platform. With the addition of JBI, Ovid’s customers will have access to a comprehensive, aggregated solution of leading EBP resources, supporting improved patient care and clinical outcomes.

JBI's comprehensive full-text resources organised by clinical specialty include Systematic Reviews; Evidence Summaries; Recommended Practices; Best Practice Information Sheets; and Consumer Information Sheets. JBI's suite of online tools assists physicians, nurses, researchers, students, and policymakers to adopt EBP methodologies to effectively search the evidence, appraise the evidence, implement the evidence and evaluate outcomes and the impact on practice change.

Wolters Kluwer Health and JBI formalised the exclusive partnership in 2010, to collaborate on providing broader access to evidence-based clinical information through its global platforms, beginning with select JBI content on Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) nursingcenter.com. The partnership is now expanding to provide the full suite of JBI resources on OvidSP.

DynaMed, a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care, has ranked highest among ten online clinical resources in a new study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The resources were evaluated in three areas - timeliness of content updating, breadth of coverage and the quality of evidence reporting.

According to the report, DynaMed consistently ranked near the top of each category. Clinical point-of-care resources such as DynaMed are seen to be necessary for clinicians to access the best available evidence for thousands of clinical topics. It is updated daily and can be integrated into any EMR system.

DynaMed is used by more than half a million clinicians in over 125 countries. More than 4,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals across 60 specialties contribute to the resource and more than 200,000 medical articles are summarized in DynaMed — providing doctors and other healthcare providers with access to the latest clinical evidence.

DynaMed was also rated highest in its category by healthcare providers in a report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specialises in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. DynaMed also came out on top in a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ study looked at how quickly five point-of-care products updated new evidence.

A study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (J Med Libr Assoc 2011 Jul;99(3):247) tested DynaMed against seven other point-of-care resources with similar results. Also without the knowledge of database publishers, librarians in Texas tested these resources by selecting the top 10 diagnoses and monitored each tool for frequency of updates on these topics.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has launched a nationwide 'ClinicalKey Experience Tour' to promote the importance of a reliable and fast clinical reference tool that provides better answers to physicians' clinical questions and thus improves patient care.

The 'ClinicalKey Experience' tour is an all-day outdoor event showcasing and promoting live demonstrations of ClinicalKey. The tour will visit hospitals and academic medical centers across the country and features a customised, walk-in demonstration pod set up adjacent to hospitals and open to clinicians and hospital staff. Attendees are invited to stop by the tour at any time throughout the scheduled day for a short demo and trial of ClinicalKey, as well as refreshments. The events take place from about 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The customised 'ClinicalKey Experience' pod is a 20-foot transportable suite that unfolds to include about 470 square feet of open air space, atmospheric lighting, fans, phone chargers, Wi-Fi, and comfortable seating. It includes interactive demo stations for physicians to test drive the product firsthand, plus giveaway items.

Launched in April 2012, ClinicalKey provides current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals. ClinicalKey is powered by Elsevier's Smart Content, tagged with EMMeT (Elsevier Merged Medical Taxonomy), which enables ClinicalKey to understand clinical terms and thus discover medical content that is the most relevant, plus find related content that would be missed by other search engines.

Elsevier's Smart Content has been designed to understand the vast number of relationships between clinical concepts. By organising these relationships in a hierarchical manner, it guarantees that ClinicalKey provides specific, targeted results to physicians' questions.

The tour launched in St. Louis, Mo., on September 18 and will travel to major cities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Colorado. The last day of the tour will be December 12.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Methodist Dallas Medical Center has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets claims to be an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance.

ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Dallas, the 515-bed Methodist Dallas Medical Center is a part of the nonprofit Methodist Health System. Home to more than 250 physicians with expertise in more than 50 medical specialties, it is the main teaching and referral center for Methodist Health System and features a Level II Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methodist Dallas is fully accredited by the Joint Commission.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of a new version of ClinicalKey designed for individual clinicians. ClinicalKey, Elsevier's clinical insight engine, now provides quick access to highly targeted content for physicians in 41 specialties, drawing on evidence-based information from more than 900 textbooks and 500 medical journals.

Launched in April for institutions, ClinicalKey claims to provide the most current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals.

The new, individual version of ClinicalKey offers specialised content from some of Elsevier's most popular journals, including The Lancet, Gastroenterology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings; as well as Elsevier-published books, including Braunwald's Heart Disease, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, and Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease, among others.

ClinicalKey provides faster, smarter access to the relevant online clinical answers physicians seek. After conducting market research with more than 2,000 physicians, Elsevier designed ClinicalKey to meet the three key search requirements those physicians demanded.

ClinicalKey includes answers based on the largest collection of clinical resources in one place online, representing every medical and surgical specialty and information at all levels, from expert opinion to primary data. Resources include textbooks, journals, monographs, videos and images.

ClinicalKey provides access to the latest peer-reviewed and evidence-based information available from Elsevier, the world's leading provider of science and health information.

ClinicalKey is powered by Elsevier's Smart Content, tagged with EMMeT (Elsevier Merged Medical Taxonomy), which enables ClinicalKey to understand clinical terms and thus discover medical content that is the most relevant, plus find related content that would be missed by other search engines. Elsevier's Smart Content has been designed to understand the vast number of relationships between clinical concepts. By organising these relationships in a hierarchical manner, it guarantees that ClinicalKey provides specific, targeted results to physicians' questions.

Smart Content allows clinicians to filter search results by clinically meaningful subcategories (content type, specialty, and by relevant clinical categories like treatment and diagnosis). Specialty-specific tools enable physicians to quickly go from topic overview to in-depth specialty information to meet clinical challenges.

The Brazilian Ministries of Health and Education have made evidence-based clinical reference DynaMed available to more than 900,000 healthcare professionals throughout the country. The ministries, in a partnership with the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, have created a portal called Evidence-based Health to provide access to the latest clinical information in order to improve medical decisions and diagnoses.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care. DynaMed contains clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics. Daily updates provide the best available evidence available to clinicians making medical decisions. International guidelines and topics make DynaMed a valuable resource.

A recent report in KLAS rated DynaMed higher than other disease reference tools. Survey respondents indicated that DynaMed excelled in the credibility of the information it provided and in the relevance of its information.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a strategic partnership with The Altos Group to advance development of an innovative sepsis mortality reduction programme. Hospitals are currently being enrolled to serve as pilot sites in the programme, which brings together mobile technology, actionable clinical content and clinical change management to enable early sepsis identification and intervention.

The Altos Group is a consulting firm that partners with healthcare institutions to implement change management programmes that substantially improve patient outcomes. Headed by Julie A. Kliger, the firm’s methodology and services have proven particularly effective at impacting sepsis rates. In one case, which was profiled recently by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a 54.5% reduction in average mortality rates was achieved within three years across nine California hospitals.

The sepsis mortality reduction programme focuses on early detection and applying best practices to treating the septic patient. In addition to reducing overall patient mortality, costs and lengths of stay, the goal of the programme is to identify and address the top healthcare-associated infections (HAI) that drive sepsis mortality. This will be accomplished through a three-pronged approach that couples mobile software with actionable content, driven by WK Health's trusted brands as UpToDate, Lexicomp, ProVation Order Sets, and Sentri7, supplemented by change management consulting services.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the release of OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP users can now conduct a single search query to uncover relevant answers to important medical questions across subscribed and OA content.

Resources provided through OvidOpenAccess includes more than 200 journals from Medknow, a leading, global Open Access publisher and part of Wolters Kluwer Health, and thousands of OA articles available in PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM). OvidOpenAccess has value-added content for all institutional subscribers of the OvidSP platform, a leading medical research platform.

With OvidOpenAccess, OA content is listed in a separate, easily identifiable results widget alongside the main Search Results pane in OvidSP Basic Search. Users can conduct post search tasks, such as print, save, and export to a project or project folder in the My Projects function. Currently, OvidOpenAccess includes a growing list of more than 70,000 full text articles from Medknow’s clinical and research journals.

Medknow journals are published on behalf of nearly 160 professional healthcare societies and associations and span a wide range of medical and healthcare disciplines, including nursing pharmacology, and alternative medicine. In addition, users have access, through the PMC Open Access Subset, to bibliographic citations of articles published in more than 1,000 un-embargoed journals.

The OvidSP medical research platform delivers a solution of aggregated premium content from more than 150 information producers, and rich search functionality and tools to quickly find and manage search results. Used by more than 12,500 institutions globally, OvidSP helps physicians, clinicians, students, researchers, and librarians to make important decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.

Totally, the AIM quoted digital health and technical solutions company, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the BMJ Evidence Centre, part of the BMJ Group, to assist the Company in the delivery of the £1.6 million national NHS Shared Decision Making contract that Totally secured and announced in February 2012.

The BMJ Evidence Centre’s clinical information specialists search and appraise the medical literature to provide a robust evidence base. Writers and editors on the consumer health team liaise with clinical experts and patient representatives to deliver practical and innovative shared decision making tools that enable patients to make the right decisions about their own healthcare options.

Under the agreement, the BMJ Evidence centre will provide the evidence base and the editorial for patient decision aids (‘PDA’) in thirty five long term condition disease areas.

These PDAs will sit on top of the interactive web based ‘SANDY’ system, which Totally has built for the NHS and which forms the basis of the National Shared Decision Making platform. Totally will also organise the Medical advisory groups, who will help with scoping the outline of the various PDAs, before the evidence and editorial work begins.

The content of the patient decision aids will also be available via mobile applications and are planned to be embedded into GP databases and linked up to IT systems throughout the NHS via the ‘SANDY’ system.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is an easily customiable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. It is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, which claims to be the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Pomona, CA, the 453-bed Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is a not-for-profit, acute care teaching hospital serving Eastern Los Angeles and Western San Bernardino counties. It offers a full range of services from local primary acute care to highly specialised regional services and is accredited by the Joint Commission.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that NHS Education for Scotland has selected DynaMed as its preferred point of care resource for all NHS Scotland staff and students.

NHS Education’s Knowledge Network had offered DynaMed, as well as other point of care resources, to its users but recently selected DynaMed as the primary point of care resource due to its comprehensive coverage and frequent and reliable updates. Another contributing factor to their decision to implement DynaMed as the primary resource was due to a recent report in KLAS that rated DynaMed higher than other disease reference tools. Survey respondents indicated that DynaMed excelled in the credibility of the information it provided and in the relevance of its information.

NHS Education’s subscription to DynaMed includes EBSCO’s Nursing Reference Center and Rehabilitation Reference Center. These resources offer the best available evidence-based clinical reference tools for nursing and rehabilitation practices. These, teamed with DynaMed, offer NHS Education with a full suite of point of care resources.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care. It contains clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics. Daily updates provide the best available evidence available to clinicians making medical decisions. DynaMed integrates with electronic health records and is available via mobile devices.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a content enhancement and knowledge services company, has announced that it has surpassed the 1,500-mark in delivering cost-effective, customised order sets to its clients. Since first offering this service to clients in 2009, Scope has gained invaluable experience in creating electronic order sets as well as reconciling paper order sets against default order sets for various Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) providers.

According to Scope’s President, Tram Venkatraman, OrdEHRSet was launched in response to the demand from clinical decision support system (CDSS)/electronic health record (EHR) players for reliable healthcare and medical knowledge services. These players are increasingly willing to outsource the development and standardisation of order set terms and a host of related tasks to qualified partners such as Scope who will help them address the problem of shrinking clinical workforce and long service delivery timelines, enabling them to serve a range of hospitals, healthcare providers and information savvy consumers.

OrdEHRSet offers faster, accurate and high-quality order set content to clients. Key features of OrdEHRSet include the standardisation of medical terms used in hospitals for easy compatibility with CPOE provider systems and the incorporation of appropriate and reliable evidence-based medicine (EBM) content in order sets for aiding healthcare providers in decision making. Other value added features include creation of disease and drug profiles, drug safety alerts, clinical conditions documentation, new evidence alerts, and creation and maintenance of EBM-integrated disease databases, added Scope’s SVP, M. A. Eswaran.

Dr. Ram Deepak, Scope’s Operations Manager – Medical Content, noted that Scope’s achievement of delivering more than 1,500 order sets, typically responding to clients’ fast turnaround time requirements, confirms the company’s confidence in the benefits of OrdEHRSet. OrdEHRSet leverages Scope’s cost-effective, on-demand access to highly skilled and experienced doctors, medical practitioners and consulting partner ecosystem, as well as experience in handling diverse CPOE provider modules. Scope’s deep research capabilities enable the identification of appropriate EBM content for niche medical specialties that often pose challenges to CPOE implementers/system integrators.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group company, is an award winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. Scope uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, and authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that O’Bleness Memorial Hospital has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Athens, Ohio, O'Bleness Memorial Hospital is a private not-for-profit hospital serving the residents of southeastern Ohio with the latest clinical technologies and comprehensive medical services. It is the cornerstone hospital of O’Bleness Health System, a regional network of physicians, nurses, technicians, support staff and modern facilities.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the members of its editorial advisory board for ClinicalKey, the next generation clinical insight engine that launched in April 2012.

The board includes 12 doctors who represent a multitude of medical specialties. Dr. David Goldmann, the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s First Consult, is the board chair.

ClinicalKey draws upon answers from the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty. ClinicalKey's content includes more than 800 textbooks and 500 top medical journals, providing the most current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals.

Medical and health sciences media and communications company Touch Group plc, UK, has announced the launch of four new clinical portals.

Driven by the content from Touch Medical Media’s review journals, these new portals seek to serve as an authoritative free–to–access resource that supports healthcare professionals and hospital administrators to stay abreast of the latest advances and opinion in clinical practice.

The websites, guided by the journals' editorial boards and supported by professional associations, will comprise review articles, case reports and original research. The aim is to provide an ideal platform for the dissemination of best practice and product information across the healthcare spectrum.

The clinical portfolio now numbers 17 sites.

Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Memorial Medical Center of West Michigan has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is an order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. It is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. A key benefit is continuous updating of clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 users worldwide.

Located in Ludington, MI, the 87-bed Memorial Medical Center of West Michigan is an acute care hospital providing residents of Mason County and surrounding communities with services including inpatient medical, surgical, step-down, obstetrical and critical care, as well outpatient laboratory, cancer and hematology and diagnostics.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that UpToDate, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, was featured in the current issue of the Global Public Health journal.

The article, Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based online medical information, was co-authored by Dr. Margaret L. McNairy, Dr. Alysse G Wurcel, Dr. Franklin Huang and Dr. Johanna P. Daily. The article investigates the relationship between access to evidence-based, online clinical resources and improvements in patient care in RLS. Clinicians in RLS can now access UpToDate by applying to the international grant subscription program on Global Health Delivery Online (GHDonline.org).

A total of 102 healthcare workers (HCW) were trained to use UpToDate across four hospitals in Africa. Of the 102, 64 completed a survey at the end of the program. The majority of users were doctors (63%), nurses (25%) or medical officers and/or students (12%). Ninety-six percent of users felt ‘very comfortable’ with English. The data suggests that the provision of evidence-based medical information resources via the Internet is feasible in RLS, is used for a broad variety of topics, and could improve providers' knowledge, clinical practice and potentially patient outcomes. The methodology also demonstrates that initial and regular training and support is needed for these resources to be fully used in RLS.

Four hospitals were chosen for this study based on their affiliation with the authors’ sponsoring institutions: two medical centers in Rwanda, one hospital in Malawi, and one hospital in South Africa. UpToDate provided unlimited, 24 hour free access to its knowledge system via the Internet and all hospitals had satellite or cable Internet access that was free for the clinical staff. The study began in January of 2009 and lasted 6 months.

Ovid, a US-based provider of information solutions, will introduce new capabilities in OvidMD, designed to meet the needs of medical librarians and the clinicians they serve. These will be unveiled at this year’s Medical Librarians Association (MLA) annual meeting in Seattle on May 19 – 22, marking the first anniversary of OvidMD, the company’s research platform of aggregated medical resources. Ovid is part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

OvidMD seeks to put research into practice, bringing the library resources to the clinician. Users search Ovid MEDLINE, UpToDate, evidence-based databases, with subscribed resources from Ovid's repository of aggregated, premium clinical journals and books to deliver clinically relevant search results. OvidMD is said to be the only tool that allows physicians to access information from UpToDate for quick clinical answers or Ovid for deeper research, all in one interface.

Highlights of the OvidMD enhancements with new clinical search productivity tools include Typeahead that Thinks Ahead; Clinical Focus Navigators; OvidMD Web App for the iPad and iPhone; Best Bets in Search Results; Shortcuts from ‘What Am I Searching?’; Library Co-Branding; OpenURL graphics; and Improved UpToDate Search Results (mid-June).

Attendees at the MLA annual conference can also view peer-reviewed open access content from Medknow and PubMed Central coming soon to OvidSP. Visitors to the Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid’s booth #301 can register to win the latest in technology devices at Ovid’s first-ever Wii Home Run Derby.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it presented ClinicalKey, which claims to be the world’s first ‘clinical insight engine’, at the Health In4matics Expo.

Powered by Smart Content, which maps the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty, to a proprietary medical taxonomy, ClinicalKey aims to provide more clinically relevant answers than conventional search engines, saving doctors’ time and informing decisions that can improve outcomes.

ClinicalKey initially launched in April this year, with an institutionally focused product whose primary users will be clinicians at hospitals, healthcare systems and medical schools. Beginning in Q3 2012, Elsevier will market an individual clinician version.

According to Jim Donohue, Elsevier’s Managing Director, Global Clinical Reference, ClinicalKey is part of Elsevier’s continuing efforts to help clinicians improve quality and efficiency through the smarter use of healthcare information. Institutions can contact their Elsevier sales representative for a free 30-day trial.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced ClinicalKey, the next generation of online clinical information resources. ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty - eliminating physicians’ reliance on less accurate sources.

ClinicalKey's content includes more than 700 textbooks and 400 top medical journals, providing current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, as well as expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals.

As Elsevier’s new ‘clinical insight engine’, ClinicalKey provides faster, smarter access to the relevant online clinical answers physicians seek. After conducting market research with more than 2,000 physicians, Elsevier designed ClinicalKey to meet the three key search requirements those physicians demanded – fast, trusted and comprehensive.

Information found on ClinicalKey is also easily shared, helping colleagues and care teams make the best decisions for patients. For example, the built-in presentation maker allows physicians to dynamically communicate the latest medical and surgical information to colleagues and care teams. With one click they can share a paper, chapter, image, or video via email.

ClinicalKey is powered by Elsevier’s Smart Content, tagged with EMMeT (Elsevier Merged Medical Taxonomy), which enables ClinicalKey to understand clinical terms and thus discover medical content that is the most relevant, plus find related content that would be missed by other search engines. Elsevier’s Smart Content has been designed to understand the vast number of relationships between clinical concepts. By organizing these relationships in a hierarchical manner, it guarantees that ClinicalKey provides specific, targeted results to physicians’ questions.

The tool allows clinicians to filter search results by clinically meaningful subcategories. Specialty-specific tools enable physicians to quickly go from topic overview to in-depth specialty information to meet clinical challenges.

ClinicalKey will initially launch with an institutionally focused product whose primary users will be clinicians at hospitals, healthcare systems and medical schools. Beginning in Q3 2012, Elsevier will market an individual clinician version.

Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that FirstHealth of the Carolinas has selected its Integration Discovery to provide clinical interoperability across its healthcare system. FirstHealth is a private, not-for-profit healthcare system located in Pinehurst, NC, which operates three hospitals and several outpatient healthcare facilities, serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas.

Integration Discovery, powered by CareEvolution, Inc., efficiently integrates disparate clinical and administrative data sources from across the healthcare continuum, performs precise data transformation, enables powerful real-time and retrospective analytical reporting, and delivers actionable information for quality improvements.

By leveraging Integration Discovery, FirstHealth will be able to significantly improve its coordination of care and clinical outcomes by reducing unnecessary diagnostic tests, optimising clinician workflows and controlling operational costs.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Duke University Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support as its electronic order sets solution.

ProVation Order Sets provides peer-reviewed evidence-based order set content. Proprietary authoring and management tools allow for online review and management of order sets, building consensus among physicians, driving standardization of practice and computerised physician order entry (CPOE) adoption.

ProVation Medical provides procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers. ProVation MD, ProVation MultiCaregiver and ProVation EHR software reduce transcription, paper storage and image printing costs and deliver a high Return on Investment (ROI). ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, puts evidence-based healthcare into practice by establishing and maintaining standards of care.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced a new agreement with Isabel Healthcare. The deal allows direct linking between the Isabel diagnosis tool and the evidence-based point-of-care tool DynaMed, allowing mutual customers to link from one resource to the other. The agreement brings the evidence-based content from DynaMed into the diagnostic process and allows users easier access regardless of whether a search begins in Isabel or DynaMed.

Isabel Healthcare provides a web-based application called Isabel, the industry leading diagnosis decision support system designed to provide essential diagnosis and treatment information at the point of need. For a given set of signs and symptoms, Isabel presents the clinician with a list of likely diagnoses to consider, and each diagnosis is linked to knowledge to help with further investigation, potential testing and treatment. The Isabel system has been extensively validated and is currently being used by leading healthcare systems across North America improving efficiency in decision making.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of Systematic Literature Surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that hospitals and healthcare systems using Epic as their electronic medical record (EMR) system will now be able to easily integrate patient information content from Patient Education Reference Center (PERC) from EBSCO. The integration will allow mutual customers to access PERC within the Patient Discharge Module enabling healthcare providers to meet criteria outlined in the US government's Meaningful Use objectives. The Meaningful Use objectives requires eligible healthcare professionals and hospitals to provide patients with electronic care information, including discharge instructions.

Mutual customers benefit since integrating content into EMR systems improves clinical workflow efficiency and patient education standardisation. Allowing staff to access the evidence-based patient education information PERC provides from within an EMR allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to quickly deliver important clinical discharge instructions to patients.

Patient Education Reference Center allows sites to customise PERC content to further promote the hospital's branding. PERC content is also easy to print, store and archive or retrieve electronic copies on-demand. Having access to patient education information from PERC within an EMR system saves times and further maintains clinical consistency as patients and staff members move through the clinical workflow.

Integrating Patient Education Reference Center into the Epic EMR system can be set up at no additional cost and without any additional software. Mutual customers need only request a PERC data file from EBSCO which can then be easily imported into their EMR system.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PatientKeeper, a provider of physician healthcare information systems, have announced a collaboration in which Elsevier will integrate its clinical decision support (CDS) and analytics resources into PatientKeeper's CPOE software product. The collaboration brings evidence-based clinical content into the physician's workflow through PatientKeeper's physician-friendly computerised physician order entry (CPOE) system.

This collaboration will provide PatientKeeper's physician users with value-added content that will enable them to make better and faster patient care decisions that lead to improved outcomes. The collaboration delivers deeper integration with 'context specific' CDS information from many of Elsevier's solutions, including Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology and integrated Drug Database, the Pinpoint clinical analytics suite from MEDai, and Elsevier's Order Sets solution, which will launch later in 2012.

Additionally, Elsevier will provide PatientKeeper access to Elsevier's CPM interdisciplinary, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and Elsevier's ClinicalKey, a new clinical insight engine which rapidly helps physicians find the most relevant information to answer complex clinical questions.

PatientKeeper CPOE and all of the PatientKeeper applications were designed to fit seamlessly into a physician's existing workflow. Physicians are able to accomplish all of the things they normally do throughout the day – pre-rounding, ordering, documenting, signing-out, charging, etc. – using a single, fully integrated system. Currently, more than 70 hospitals and health systems across the US and Canada have purchased PatientKeeper CPOE to streamline the ordering process for physicians and drive meaningful physician use of a critical healthcare information technology.

PatientKeeper and Elsevier believe that collaborating to provide additional content and tools within PatientKeeper's physician-friendly CPOE application will lead to high levels of sustained adoption and a happy, more effective physician community.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, will unveil the beta version of the newest member of its multidisciplinary solution suite, ClinicalKey, at HIMSS12, the annual conference and exhibition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The event is scheduled for Feb. 20-24, 2012, in Las Vegas.

ClinicalKey, a ‘clinical insight engine’ with Elsevier's Smart Content at its core, joins Elsevier's Pinpoint Solutions, Gold Standard Drug Database, CPM CarePoints and Revenue Cycle eLearning tools as the principle component of its advanced clinical decision support solutions suite.

ClinicalKey Beta, scheduled for launch in April, seeks to leverage Elsevier's medical content to quickly deliver relevant clinical answers when and where physicians need them.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has entered into an expanded distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Under the deal, Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will be the only medical research aggregator to distribute current, non-embargoed NEJM content to institutions and their clinicians, researchers and students who need fast access to the latest medical and clinical literature. The OvidSP medical research platform is used by more than 12,500 institutions worldwide.

Ovid customers will have site-wide access to current issues of the New England Journal of Medicine through 1990 in PDF format, plus links to Online First articles. Ovid had previously offered NEJM content through 1993, as HTML only.

Ovid is a global information solutions provider offering clinicians, researchers, and students in the medical, scientific, and academic fields customisable solutions of content, tools, and services that make research smarter, faster, and more effective. Its flagship search platform, OvidSP is a robust search platform used by the world’s leading medical and academic institutions as well as pharmaceutical companies, among other companies. The system averages more than 1.3 billion page views annually, with about 620 full text downloads occurring ever minute, globally.

Founded in 1812, and owned by the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org) publishes peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content for physicians, educators and the global medical community.

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Medical publisher BMJ Group and Isabel Healthcare have introduced Isabel with Best Practice, a diagnosis and treatment decision aid that combines the strengths of both companies’ existing systems to help clinicians diagnose and treat faster and more accurately at the point of care.

Under the partnership, Isabel integrated its industry-leading diagnosis decision aid with BMJ Group’s Best Practice clinical content. Isabel with Best Practice will enable doctors and nurse practitioners to make more informed and faster diagnostic and treatment decisions. Isabel with Best Practice claims to be the only diagnosis decision aid exclusively endorsed by BMJ Group and the only solution of its type that fully integrates with electronic health records.

Isabel with Best Practice capitalises on the unique ability of Isabel to produce a differential list using multiple clinical features with BMJ Group’s Best Practice’s easy to use evidence based disease monographs. When clinicians enter a patient’s signs and symptoms, Isabel with Best Practice generates a checklist of potential diagnoses while flagging high-risk ‘Don’t Miss’ diagnoses.

After a doctor selects a diagnosis, they are taken straight through to the BMJ Group’s Best Practice monographs where they are able to rapidly access information on other important symptoms and 1st and 2nd line tests to help with pinpointing the diagnosis and best practice and guidelines on treatment from the world famous BMJ Evidence Centre.

This next generation product is currently available and will be on display at the upcoming 2012 HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, NV in the Isabel booth 13247 kiosk 7.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) and Ovid, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, have announced the availability of the APA’s research database, PsycTESTS, on the OvidSP platform.

This distribution arrangement between APA and Ovid offers institutions choice in access to this database of ready-to-use test instruments, which is also available on APA’s proprietary platform, APA PsycNET. In addition to PsycTESTS, OvidSP also hosts other APA databases. These include PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES.

PsycTESTS is a new research database that provides access to an abundance of full-text psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information for each. The database also covers select commercially published tests, and provides direct links to purchase these tests from their respective publisher sites. All test records in PsycTESTS are created by skilled indexers with deep knowledge of the psychology literature. Full instruments are available in convenient download formats, including printable PDF, images, audio, or software for easy display and use.

PsycTESTS is updated monthly and currently includes over 4,100 total records, with more than 3,500 indexed test records, and 2,400 ready-to-use instruments.

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Integrated media company MedTech Media, US, has announced the launch of PhysBizTech, a multi-platform, online publication for small and medium sized physician group practices. Scheduled for launch on February 1, 2012, PhysBizTech is projected to help physicians and practice managers leverage technology to make the most of business and clinical opportunities in the 21st century.

MedTech Media’s extensive community research indicated that physicians are seeking a trusted, comprehensive resource for healthcare technology news, compliance information, and how-to content. PhysBizTech is designed to fill this information gap by offering business and technology intelligence to forward-thinking physician practices looking to increase their profitability while enhancing patient care.

Daily news coverage will help physicians and practice managers keep track of federal and state healthcare policy developments, including legislative, compliance and regulatory concerns like meaningful use, ICD-10, HIPAA 5010, and government audit activity. Editors will closely follow reimbursement and practice management issues, including changes to Medicare and Medicaid payment policies, the fundamentals of billing and collections, outsourcing strategies, process improvement techniques and the hiring, management and training of staff.

PhysBizTech’s multi-platform approach will deliver content seamlessly via HTML 5 technology online as well as to smart-phones, tablets and social media platforms, allowing physicians to access content in real-time and on the go. In addition to daily news coverage, video and slideshows, expert and peer blog posts, white papers, webinars, research and events, PhysBizTech will publish two weekly newsletters and provide a platform for lead generation, marketing and content services.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool DynaMed has been rated highest in its category by healthcare providers. A new report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specialises in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, rated disease reference tools in a number of categories. According to the report, DynaMed was rated 10 points higher in KLAS than any other disease reference product in the study.

In the KLAS survey, customers of each resource were surveyed in a variety of areas including credibility, relevance, electronic medical record (EMR) integration and influence on decisions, as well as standardisation of care and how well the resource met the overall needs of users. Survey respondents indicated that DynaMed excelled in the credibility of the information it provided and in the relevance of its information and bested the other two resources in 24 of 25 measures.

Disease references such as DynaMed are used by clinicians at the point of care to access the best available evidence for thousands of clinical topics. DynaMed is updated daily and can be integrated into any EMR system. It is used by more than half a million clinicians in over 125 countries. More than 4,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals across 60 specialties contribute to the resource and more than 200,000 medical articles are summarised in DynaMed - providing doctors and other healthcare providers with access to the latest clinical evidence.

Access to the latest clinical information at the point of care and within EMRs is having an impact on clinical decision support, which was the overall focus of the KLAS report.

Earlier in October 2011, DynaMed was named the most current point-of-care reference tool in a study published in the British Medical Journal. The study looked at how quickly five point-of-care products updated new evidence.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced the release of an iPhone application for Nursing Reference Center. This new app from EBSCO represents the only evidence-based, point-of-care nursing mobile application available.

The Nursing Reference Center iPhone app allows nurses to access point-of-care nursing content anytime and anywhere with EBSCO's mobile technology. Users are able to search and browse the content quickly via their Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Available free from the iTunes App Store, Nursing Reference Center customers can take advantage of this mobile technology at no additional cost.

Features available with the new app include the ability to navigate through topics with a table of contents, view recent or saved searches and adjust content that is being searched via a categories page. The app also provides many of the same features that users are accustomed to. These include an option to sort by relevance or date, save or email an item and auto complete functionality to suggest a search.

Nursing Reference Center offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents. The application features more than 2,200 clinically organised quick lessons, 700 evidence-based care sheets, over 1,100 drug monographs and 1,300 Nursing Practice and Skills & Skill Competency Checklists.

This point-of-care resource supports all five Magnet Components and is updated on a weekly basis. Nursing Reference Center also includes continuing education modules, detailed medical illustrations, the latest medical news, legal cases, research instruments, unique point-of-care reference books, and more.

Nursing Reference Center provides relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. Additional point-of-care resources offered by EBSCO Publishing include DynaMed, Rehabilitation Reference Center, Patient Education Reference Center and GIDEON.

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Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, and DynaMed have announced a partnership to better serve the needs of medical professionals looking for rapid access to the best available medical evidence. The partnership expands the DynaMed community to more than 4,000 medical experts adding to the already extensive coverage of specialties in the point-of-care clinical reference tool. The partnership also leverages the expertise of DynaMed and F1000 in assessing the latest medical evidence to highlight research that changes the practice of medicine.

F1000 is an online service that identifies important articles based on the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine who make up the F1000 Faculty - an international network of 10,000 experts of which over 2,200 are practicing clinicians. These researchers and clinicians select and evaluate the best articles in their chosen specialties, emphasising the key findings and placing the work in context; essentially providing post-publication peer-review. More than 110,000 article evaluations across medicine and biology from more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals have been published by F1000 to date.

In addition to writing evaluations of important articles, Faculty Members also assign classifications, where relevant, that further identify key features of the articles selected. Articles classified as 'Changes Clinical Practice' identify research papers that have the immediate potential to change the practice of medicine. F1000's ability to immediately assess and update a clinical topic with the best available evidence complements DynaMed, which is updated daily and used worldwide by clinicians and other healthcare providers to access the latest evidence-based information.

In August, DynaMed introduced the identification of 'practice-changing DynaMed updates' and developed a process with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit in which more than 1,000 practicing physicians from 61 disciplines in 77 countries identify the most important evidence changing practice. The new practice-changing updates filter from DynaMed allows users to display only those topics that include updates most likely to change clinical practice.

F1000 will expand the community of practicing clinicians by thousands and enhance the identification Practice-Changing DynaMed Updates with even greater global input. This is especially important for meeting the needs of clinicians across all levels of clinical care, all types of clinical settings, and geographic regions with variations in available resources.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Houston Healthcare has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical's award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

A One-Click Updates tool is stated to leverage UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a partnership with United Business Media Medica (UBM Medica) S.A., to provide Vademecum Data Solutions, an essential drug database for healthcare practitioners in Spanish-speaking countries.

Vademecum Data Solutions, produced by UBM Medica, provides premier reference data, decision support solutions, news and education to communities of general practitioners, specialist doctors, pharmacists, nurses and patients across Spanish-speaking countries.

Initially available as a link-out from Ovid MEDLINE, users can access all the information available in the Vademecum drug database which provides real-time with accurate drug information and decision support modules. Ovid will continue to enhance access to Vademecum content with link-outs from additional database resources on OvidSP.

Over the past year Ovid has expanded to provide a local-language search solution with the release of OvidFrancais, OvidChinese, and OvidEspanol. These local language search portals offer publishers a platform for broadening the reach of their content, and researchers, students and practitioners a reliable, efficient way to search important medical literature in their native language.

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Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for healthcare professionals, has launched Infection Xpert, a clinical intelligence dashboard. The tool is designed to help infection preventionists (IPs) manage and reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), capture and submit mandated infection reporting metrics, and analyse hospital infection data to improve patient safety.

Infection Xpert uses evidence-based clinical decision support (CDS) rules to identify medical threats earlier. For instance, the tool automatically identifies patients exhibiting signs of a serious infection and in need of immediate attention. More than 70 hospitals now use this technology to monitor patients in real-time for high-risk conditions.

The Infection Xpert solution includes a library of pre-built CDS rules developed using Micromedex evidence-based reference processes. These rules cover high-priority categories such as multi-drug resistant organisms, clostridium difficile infection, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection, and CDC-defined HAIs such as central line-associated bloodstream infection.

Using data aggregated from disparate information systems throughout the hospital, Infection Xpert seeks to present IPs with a single view of comprehensive data about their patients. This includes critical lab values, medication lists, vital signs, microbiology reports, demographics and transcribed reports. With Infection Xpert, they can submit, collect and report National Healthcare Safety Network event and denominator data.

The IP also can access patient-specific Micromedex reference information with a single click. With real-time access to comprehensive patient data and reference content, IPs are seen to be equipped with all the information they need to make fully informed treatment decisions.

Infection Xpert, part of the Clinical Xpert suite of workflow solutions can be integrated within any hospital IT environment.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Carson-Tahoe Regional Healthcare has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

A One-Click Updates tool featured by ProVation Order Sets is stated to leverage UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool DynaMed has been shown to be the most current point-of-care reference tool. A study published recently in the British Medical Journal looked at how quickly five point-of-care products updated new evidence.

The study addressed the importance of incorporating the best available evidence into the clinical workflow and the impact of updates on patient care.

Experts in evidence-based medicine in Italy evaluated the resources without informing the database providers. Researchers identified 128 systematic reviews (comprehensive evidence reports that provide the best current answer to a specific clinical concept) that were considered important enough to change clinical practice and followed the databases every month to determine how long it took for this most important evidence to show up in the resources promoted for doctors to use.

Two months after a systematic review was published, they checked if the evidence was included in each database and then repeated their monitoring every month to measure how long until it would be included. At two months DynaMed already had more than 60 percent of the reviews being monitored, and this increased to 77 percent at three months, and 87 percent at nine months. All of the other databases included less than 50 percent of the important evidence, even after nine months. The researchers even reported that the updating speed of some of the oft-relied upon resources was too slow for them to reliably measure it.

Another study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association in July tested DynaMed against seven other point-of-care resources with similar results. Also without the knowledge of database publishers, librarians in Texas tested these resources by selecting the top 10 diagnoses and monitored each tool for frequency of updates on these topics. The average number of days between updates in the treatment information was 19 for DynaMed and between 199 and 449 for all the other resources.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Highline Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organisation's electronic order set solution. Highline Medical Center is comprised of two healthcare campuses and more than 20 clinics across Southwest King County.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. ProVation Order Sets is built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

A One-Click Updates tool featured by ProVation Order Sets is stated to leverage UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network is holding a seminar and its third annual lecture prior to the 2011 Clinical Trials Methodology Conference in Bristol. Both events will be held in the Bristol Marriott City Centre hotel on October 3, 2011.

The EQUATOR seminar, 'Getting your trial published: CONSORT 2010 and other reporting guidelines' is aimed at both clinical and non-clinical professionals involved in planning, conducting and publishing randomised trials. It is expected to help increase chances of preparing a first class paper that provides a transparent and accurate account of the participant's study methods and findings.

The seminar will cover topics such as major problems in the reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs): from methodology issues to misleading writing style ('spin'); updated guidance for reporting randomised trials, the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the available CONSORT extensions; latest ideas and guidance on data-sharing; other guidance relevant to trial reporting available at the EQUATOR Library for Health Research Reporting; and editors' views and practical tips regarding the expected quality of submitted trial manuscripts.

The EQUATOR Third Annual Lecture, 'Better reporting of better research = better healthcare: a patient plea,' scheduled for October 3, 2011, will be presented by Hazel Thornton Hon. DSc., Founding Chairman of the Consumers' Advisory Group for Clinical Trials. The lecture will offer a perspective that attempts to focus attention on the need for everyone - citizens included - to realise the importance of their part in the network of activity that drives improvement in the quality of healthcare. Effective and efficient inter-connectedness is seen to be vital to ensure that research findings are relevant, reliable and swiftly available.

The lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. For more details about both events and the seminar registration form please visit ttp://www.equator-network.org/courses-events/2011-annual-lecture--seminar

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the release of OvidEspañol, a Spanish-language search portal that allows healthcare practitioners, clinicians, students, and researchers to search, browse, and manage search results of core Spanish-language medical content.

Based on the same platform functionality as Ovid's other local-language search portals, including OvidFrançais and OvidChinese, OvidEspañol is accessible anytime, anywhere a user has internet access. They can search and browse content by subject area, and perform other research tasks including enter search terms in Spanish; refine book searches by specific criteria; search multiple resources simultaneously; access a growing list of premium resources; navigate between the table of contents, chapters, and sections; email or export images from the image gallery to PowerPoint; and capture key content by exporting citations to PDF.

For its initial release, OvidEspañol offers a selection of translated core medical titles from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, including well-known titles in diabetes, psychiatry, gynaecology, and general medicine, among other medical subject areas.

Ovid is known worldwide for OvidSP, an English-language online research platform that offers unique tools and features designed to maximise search precision and efficiency, and simplify and speed analysis and workflow—all in a simple, integrated and easy-to-use system. Ovid introduced its first local-language portal, OvidFrançais, in 2010, and announced OvidChinese last month. Upcoming local-language portals include Arabic.

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Health information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Decatur Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the hospital’s electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is projected as an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. The tool is built upon ProVation Medical’s clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

A One-Click Updates tool featured by ProVation Order Sets is stated to leverage UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that its new illustrated Review Series serves as an important dual purpose for medical students - both concise course review and high-yield USMLE test preparation.

Covering all the basic science subjects taken in medical school and those found on the USMLE Step 1, the series features unparalleled colour illustrations, a streamlined format, and hundreds of print and online study questions and answers, designed to increase students' mastery of the topics, promote classroom success, and boost their confidence for the exam.

The first two titles to be published in the series, Pharmacology - An Illustrated Review and Physiology - An Illustrated Review, are currently available. Forthcoming illustrated Review Series titles include Anatomy - An Illustrated Review; Biochemistry - An Illustrated Review; Microbiology & Immunology - An Illustrated Review; and Pathology - An Illustrated Review.

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the release of Ovid’s latest local language search portal, OvidChinese. OvidChinese allows healthcare practitioners, clinicians, students, and researchers to search, browse, and manage results of core Chinese-language medical content. From August 31 through September 04, Ovid will offer demonstrations of OvidChinese at the Beijing International Book Fair in China, Stand E2.C30.

OvidChinese is accessible anytime, anywhere a user has internet access. Users can search and browse content by subject area, and perform other research tasks including enter search terms in Simplified Chinese; refine book searches by specific criteria; search multiple resources simultaneously; access premium resources published by the top publishers in China; navigate between table of contents, chapters, and sections; email or export images from the image gallery to PowerPoint; capture key content by exporting citations to PDF; and offer Chinese-language information to students, faculty, and clinicians.

Ovid continues to expand its content offerings on OvidChinese with new and established partnerships among leading Chinese medical publishers, including Higher Education Press (HEP), People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH), People’s Military Medical Digital Press (PMMDP), and Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers (SSTP).

More than 400 titles are currently available on the portal with several hundred more titles planned for later this year. The content covers Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and therapeutic areas such as surgery and regenerative medicine, among other disciplines.

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Health information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Samaritan Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organisation's electronic order set solution. Located in Watertown, New York, Samaritan Medical Center serves as the regional referral centre for northern New York, providing an array of medical, surgical and emergency care services.

ProVation Order Sets is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. The tool is built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform. One of its primary values is said to be the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, which reportedly has 450,000 users worldwide.

A One-Click Updates tool featured by ProVation Order Sets is stated to leverage UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Aultman Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the hospital's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new release of Codifa, an easy to use and powerful online point of care drug information platform serving Italian healthcare providers.

This project is part of Elsevier's continuous efforts to offer most qualified and relevant international contents to its local or multi-language clinical products in Europe. Codifa's critical drug information reduces the clinical risk associated with errors in prescribing or administering drugs, adverse reactions and suboptimal dosages.

The new Codifa system improves significantly the core functionalities and contents of the 2005 release, providing a new user-friendly interface and search engine designed to enhance and speed up information retrieval, reading, integration in workflows and use on handheld devices. Longstanding partnerships with important, Italian and international, institutions and associations (both public and private) ensure that Codifa provides authoritative, information on drug interactions, global brand name conversion, generic drug search and price trends.

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McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit and DynaMed from EBSCO Publishing have partnered to help physicians understand the scope of the medical research being published every day. As a result of the agreement, the two best systems for keeping up with medical research have come together in an international partnership to identify practice-changing evidence for physicians and to include that knowledge directly into the DynaMed experience.

The agreement between McMaster University and DynaMed provides physicians with the information they need to know - the best available evidence - when and where they need it most - at the point of care.

McMaster University and DynaMed add context to the medical literature allowing hospitals and healthcare providers to make decisions based on the best available evidence. The Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University has established a process to identify high-quality medical research and has recruited a global network of thousands of physicians spanning all disciplines that evaluates the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of high quality research articles.

DynaMed is a point-of-care clinical reference and decision support resource that identifies the best available evidence. It uses a team of physicians, health professionals from other disciplines and scientists trained in research methodology to critically analyse the content. The resource summarises research evidence for rapid application and makes the information available for physicians to find in the moment-to-moment context of patient care.

It is expected that by combining these systematic and rigorous methods for identifying and analysing medical research and adding the vast array of practicing physicians, physicians using DynaMed will be able to quickly identify the practice-changing medical research results across all medical disciplines.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Hardin Memorial Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organisation's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that its Clinical Xpert CareFocus is 2011/2012 compliant and was recently certified as an EHR Module by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable eligible hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification programme tests and certifies that Complete EHRs meet all of the 2011/2012 criteria and EHR Modules meet one or more - but not all - of the criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for either eligible provider or hospital technology.

The certification number for Clinical Xpert CareFocus version 28 is CC-1112-352290-2. ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification conferred by CCHIT does not represent an endorsement of the certified EHR technology by the US Department of Health and Human Services nor does it guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Moses Cone Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for the five-hospital health system.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Academic publisher Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford, has announced that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine Online is being updated with new content. The aim is to ensure that the resource continues to reflect current clinical practice. The resource claims to be the foremost international textbook of medicine and was recently shortlisted for the Best Content Innovation at the Bookseller's Future Book Digital Innovation Award 2011.

The editors of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine have been working with authors to thoroughly rework certain chapters in which there have been major developments in the field. With this initiative, they seek to ensure that the content remains up-to-date with new developments and pertinent issues that have a major impact on international medicine.

The update this month provides revisions to two areas of medicine – cardiovascular medicine and renal diseases. Updates to the textbook occur twice a year.

Online access to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine in low and middle income countries is supported by the Wellcome Trust and is made available through the WHO-led HINARI Access to Research in Health programme.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Lexi-Comp, Inc., a provider of drug information and clinical content for pharmacists, clinicians and hospitals internationally. The acquisition is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions WK Health has made in its Clinical Solutions business as part of the company's strong focus on the point-of-care market.

Lexi-Comp provides services and content to nearly 1,500 hospitals internationally, has more than 1,700 drug monographs and is particularly strong in the area of mobile content for pharmacists and clinicians. To support and supplement effective clinician-patient interactions, Lexi-Comp also provides patient medication leaflets in 19 languages.

The intent to acquire Lexi-Comp was announced on April 27, 2011. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced the availability of OvidMD, claimed to be the first clinical tool from Ovid designed especially for physicians and other clinicians. OvidMD provides quick answers to clinical questions based on relevant full-text content from Ovid. The solution presents latest medical research on OvidSP and synoptic content from UpToDate through the same, easy-to-use interface.

Designed for and tested by physicians, OvidMD fills a clinical information gap between point-of- care tools and in-depth medical research, when a clinician has between 5-15 minutes of time to find quick, relevant answers in the literature. Verified by research conducted with physicians, OvidMD offers a variety of content that fits into the few minutes that are available when a physician is with a patient, in the time that may be available during a break, or in longer periods that may be available for more extensive research.

OvidMD delivers only clinically-relevant results from a simple search query. With a single search, OvidMD uncovers the latest treatment options, evidence-based guidelines, and drug therapies, plus users can download customizable patient handouts, link instantly to full text, review articles, and more. Convenient search tools include auto complete, synonym expansion, drawing on Ovid's proprietary controlled vocabulary lexicon to provide hundreds of thousands of medical synonyms, phrase detection, spelling suggestions, and highlighted search terms.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Sonoma Valley Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the facility's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution. It seeks to provide flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced a new look for its evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool DynaMed. A new design and easier functionality are being introduced in a preview so users can explore the new features before the transition in completed in July.

Some of the standout features include a new Spotlight area highlighting clinically relevant news and information. Changes to the current Search Other Services area allows users to easily navigate to other resources directly from DynaMed improving access to additional information during diagnosis and treatment. Enhanced navigation functionality within the result list includes hover functionality. New linking functionality drives users directly to a topic subsection from the result list and allows users to obtain related search results from other EBSCO databases to which they subscribe.

Additionally, enhanced navigation options within the topic allow users to easily navigate the topic sections and subsections. Searching within the text of a topic enables users to easily find specific terms or phrases. Enhancements to the 'Recent Updates' page enables users to filter updates easily as well as to view by specialty. A new practice changing updates feature allows users to filter the display to only show recent updates that are most likely to change clinical practice.

In July when DynaMed users migrate over to the new interface, additional changes will be introduced. These include new spell-checker functionality that will suggest alternate terms, the ability to create email alerts to be notified when topics are updated with new evidence and persistent links in DynaMed that will support proxy server authentication.

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point of care. The tool is updated daily in order to provide the best available evidence and can be integrated into electronic health records.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Fisterra.com, a widely used e-clinical reference solution in Spain. Fisterra was launched in 2002 by two primary care doctors and a medical librarian in response to the need for an online short answer Spanish language reference solution to help primary care physicians. It provides access to Fisterrae, an advanced e-clinical reference solution that integrates support resources for health professionals in a local language platform.

Fisterrae is written by doctors and pharmacists and is kept permanently up to date by medical journals, reviews by the Cochrane Library and the most important databases of clinical practice guidelines. Fisterra.com solutions include clinical guides and protocols; a clinical drug database with dosage calculators; a vaccination tool; electronic continuing medical education content; and patient handouts. A mobile app suitable for point of care contexts is also in development.

The website will add to Elsevier's electronic services supported by distinguished local authors, translations of major international references, information and first-level knowledge to individuals and groups engaged in quality health practice and research.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) to provide institutional access to Mainpro MI educational credits via DynaMed, an evidence-based reference resource. The integration of DynaMed with the CMA system enables physicians to use DynaMed for research and quickly and easily earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

Representing more than 74,000 of Canada's physicians, the CMA claims to be the only association that offers automatic transfer of credits to the College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC).

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. It contains clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,200 topics; the database is updated daily and can be integrated into electronic health records.

The new partnership with DynaMed enables the CMA to help physicians work towards obtaining their credits through a self-reflective look at their practice while earning continuing medical education credits. Institutional access provides a direct link from clinical summaries within DynaMed to their CMA account to submit searches and receive Mainpro MI educational credits.

CMA members may access DynaMed at http://www.cma.ca/clinicalresources/dynamed. Institutions currently subscribing to DynaMed may have the new CMA CME feature turned on within their subscription at no additional charge.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Maury Regional Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the facility's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution. It seeks to provide flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values of the solution is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 450,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 9,000 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 77,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 328,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has entered into an agreement to acquire Lexi-Comp, Inc., a global provider of drug information and clinical content for pharmacists and clinicians. The acquisition is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions WK Health has made in its Clinical Solutions business as part of the company's strong focus on serving the point-of-care segment.

Lexi-Comp provides drug information and medical reference content to more than 1,500 hospitals internationally, and publishes drug monographs covering more than 1,700 products. The company's clinical information is available to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals online and on a variety of popular mobile devices, as well as through integrated health information systems. To support and supplement effective clinician-patient interactions, Lexi-Comp also provides patient medication leaflets in 19 languages.

The acquisition of Lexi-Comp will enable WK Health to further strengthen its leading position in the clinical decision support and point-of-care information segments and to provide customers with even more robust drug information and clinical content offerings for both hospital pharmacies and overall hospital enterprises. It will also enable pharmacist, physician and nurse customers to use an extended suite of mobile capabilities and online platforms, making access to critical medical information more convenient than ever before.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Medical and health sciences media and communications firm Touch Group PLC, UK, has reportedly launched a new clinical portal called touchnephrology.com. With content from review journals European Nephrology and US Nephrology, the portal will seek to serve as an open access resource for nephrologists and hospital administrators.

Guided by the journals' editorial boards and the assistance of professional associations, touchnephrology.com is projected to feature review articles, case reports and original research. These are seen to provide an ideal platform for the dissemination of best practice and product information across the healthcare spectrum.

The portal provides the nephrology professional with an events calendar and article search function to find information quickly and accurately. The site will be complemented with a monthly e-newsletter.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Nathan Littauer Hospital has selected the ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the hospital's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets is projected as an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution. It seeks to provide flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of the primary values of the solution is continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, a resource used by 400,000 users worldwide.

The product is supported by the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates. Enabled by a structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates is said to alert end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. It also features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Williamson Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the hospital's electronic order set solution. The Williamson Medical Center provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care including emergency services and a wide range of wellness services, screenings and classes.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 400,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,300 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 385,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Online research information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a partnership with the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). Under the deal, Ovid will offer the latter's two English-language journals -Chinese Medical Journal and the Chinese Journal of Traumatology - to its global customer base via the OvidSP platform.

Established in 1887, the Chinese Medical Journal claims to be China's oldest medical journal. It is a peer-reviewed, semi-monthly general medicine journal for all doctors, researchers, and health workers regardless of their medical specialty.

The peer-reviewed Chinese Journal of Traumatology is China's only English-language Traumatology journal and focuses on all aspects of trauma care and accident surgery, incorporating a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine.

Both journals will be available on OvidSP, an online search platform for the medical community. The platform offers a comprehensive selection of aggregated peer-reviewed medical research content. OvidSP's unique tools and features are designed to maximise search precision and efficiency, and simplify and speed analysis and workflow.

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Mobile medical references provider Skyscape, Inc., US, a subsidiary of Physicians Interactive Holdings, has launched the Skyscape Pediatrics Suite. This new suite of pediatrics resources is designed specifically to help pediatricians take the guesswork out of treatment and prescribing decisions.

The Skyscape Pediatrics Suite, featuring the gold-standard Red Book, includes unbiased content from physician-authors and trusted content providers, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and Massachusetts Medical Society. This content is then paired with formulas, calculators, algorithms, cross-referencing and diagnostic tools to aid in clinical decision making.

The Pediatric Suite is the first in a series of specialty-focused app suites that Skyscape is developing. These mobile suites will help healthcare professionals access the information they need, when they need it, so that they can focus on providing first-rate patient care.

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Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) and Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, are providing free online access to emergency, disaster, trauma and radiation contamination resources to Japanese hospitals and healthcare institutions affected by the recent disasters. The online access is provided via the Wolters Kluwer Health Emergency Resources Portal. The initiative is in support of disaster relief efforts in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami. The access will be immediate and extend for 30 days.

Resources available through the portal include Ovid MEDLINE, LWW Total Access journal collection, LWW Emergency Medicine e-book collection, LWW Critical Care medicine e-book collection, LWW Hospital e-book collection and LWW Nursing e-book collection.

On offer are pre-set expert searches for instant access to relevant information on OvidSP, a medical information search and discovery platforms. The searches cover PTSD, disease prevention related to earthquakes, radiation contamination effects and treatment, public health responses, sanitation and vaccination.

Available for a limited time during the Japan earthquake crisis, access to the Wolters Kluwer Health Emergency Resources Portal is IP-validated through Japan for hospitals, institutional libraries and other healthcare entities in the nation supporting the disaster relief efforts.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Ozarks Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the hospital's electronic order set solution.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 400,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One-Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One-Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,300 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text and graphics, more than 385,000 Medline references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allows for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a strategic relationship between First Consult and Cleveland Clinic to provide physician-author support of content for First Consult. First Consult is an evidence-based resource integrated into the clinical workflow to deliver trusted medical information at the point-of-care. Through this collaboration, Cleveland Clinic physicians will now be able to provide ongoing updates and reviews of First Consult medical topics.

First Consult's content is enhanced through the direct contribution of medical topics by Cleveland Clinic medical experts into First Consult's peer-review editorial process. This collaboration expands on an already established relationship between Elsevier and Cleveland Clinic. The Clinic currently provides point-of-care Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit to users of Elsevier's First Consult and MD Consult, a clinical reference tool utilised by more than 2,000 healthcare organisations and 95 percent of all US medical schools.

As physicians increasingly turn to the Internet for clinical information, the relationship between Elsevier and Cleveland Clinic helps ensure that the information they receive is current, relevant and accurate, thus improving overall patient care. Instead of relying on the unproven information available widely on the Internet, Elsevier sees physicians gravitating more to the evidence-based clinical content provided by online tools such as First Consult.

First Consult is projected as an ideal resource for quickly answering questions related to screening, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the majority of the medical conditions responsible for office visits and inpatient admissions. First Consult is also available as an iPhone/iPad app, available through free download from the Apple App Store.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the company is providing free access to its primary online clinical reference tools - MD Consult and First Consult - to all IPs originating from Japan. The move follows the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. Free access will be available through April, 2011. This effort is part of a new initiative to provide easily accessible focused resources in response to world events that present difficult medical challenges.

MD Consult is an authoritative combination of clinically relevant information to give medical professionals an answer to their clinical questions, stay abreast of recent developments, and educate patients, resulting in better patient care and improved outcomes. First Consult is Elsevier's point-of-care content that is integrated within MD Consult and leverages evidence-based medical information to deliver answers that are trusted, quick, and accessible.

MD Consult has also added a recommended resource topic page for Radiation Sickness, which is linked from www.mdconsult.com. If access to a desktop computer is problematic, MD Consult has a mobile version, and First Consult has an iPhone/iPad app that provides offline access to First Consult's content in areas that have limited or no internet connectivity.

Additionally, Elsevier is also providing free online access to medical information for healthcare professionals in Japan through the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a partnership of the National Library of Medicine and the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers and other publishers. EAI provides temporary free access to full-text articles from major biomedicine titles to healthcare professionals, librarians and the public affected by disasters. The idea for EAI was proposed in the aftermath of 9/11, but its first real use was in response to last year's earthquake in Haiti.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, and Health Care Systems, Inc (HCS) have announced an integration agreement that gives hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and physician practices more options in how they use Thomson Reuters Micromedex drug and patient education reference information.

Under the agreement, evidence-based information from Micromedex will now be available with most core HIS, Physician Practice Management and Ambulatory EMR vendor architectures.

The new integration options give hospitals design flexibility in how they provide Micromedex content to clinicians and patients. Hospitals will have ability to store CareNotes patient education documents in their electronic medical records, and provide them directly to patients.

The solution addresses the Meaningful Use Core Objective for electronic patient discharge instructions. CareNotes patient education materials for this solution are available in 15 languages.

In addition to integrating Micromedex content into most major healthcare information systems, HCS also will integrate Micromedex content directly into its own Medication Reconciliation solution. The HCS Medication Reconciliation solution addresses a critical element of meaningful use compliance, and will use Micromedex content for both drug-interaction checking and patient education.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the availability of evidence-based clinical and patient-focused information that covers the evaluation and treatment of radiation exposure in response to the disaster in Japan.

These free resources can be downloaded from http://healthcare.thomsonreuters.com/radiation and include clinical information on evaluating radiation exposures; clinical information about drugs used in the treatment of radiation exposure; clinical information about treating overdoses involving radiation therapies; patient education handouts for people who have been exposed to or are concerned about the risk of radiation exposure; and patient education handouts for people who receive treatment for radiation exposure.

The information provided is drawn from the Thomson Reuters Micromedex suite of clinical reference solutions, covering the evaluation, clinical effects, range of toxicity, and treatment protocols for dealing with non-medical radiation exposure. Also provided are detailed information on dosage, pharmacokinetics, cautions, interactions, and adverse effects for medications used for treating radiation exposure.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Providence Health & Services, a 27 hospital not-for-profit system that serves communities in five states, has selected Thomson Reuters Micromedex to support its clinical integration and evidence-based care initiatives.

Providence Health & Services will use Micromedex solutions for drug, disease, and toxicology reference, patient education, and neonatal drug dosing information integrated within their enterprise clinical information system. Clinicians in the health system will gain access to premier evidence-based clinical content, delivered across the enterprise, integrated seamlessly within their workflow. Micromedex will compliment their strategy as they migrate from multiple clinical systems to a single enterprise system.

Micromedex is currently used by more than 3,500 hospitals in the US and in 80 countries worldwide. More than a quarter million clinicians have downloaded the Micromedex drug information iPhone application to-date. Based on systematic, critical evaluation of the world's biomedical literature and regulatory actions, Micromedex content consistently provides the most comprehensive, direct, and complete answers to complex medication management questions.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, and Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, have announced that Thomson Reuters Micromedex will be integrated into ZynxOrder evidence-based order sets.

This integration pushes Micromedex clinical reference information to the point of care, giving physicians access to comprehensive drug information and disease protocols from their ZynxOrder evidence-based order set. Thomson Reuters will partner with Zynx Health as its source for order set solutions, and Zynx Health will offer Micromedex content as a preferred choice for clinical reference content. Joint customers will have contextual links from their ZynxOrder order sets into the Micromedex content.

This agreement unites Zynx Health's market leadership in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals with Thomson Reuters' market leadership in providing Micromedex evidence-based clinical reference information to more than 3,500 hospitals. According to Thomas Hegelund, executive vice president at Thomson Reuters, the combination of ZynxOrder order sets and Micromedex evidence-based reference information integrated into the electronic health record and computerised physician order entry environment will give physicians comprehensive clinical information where they need it most.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that ScriptRx, Inc. will integrate Medi-Span Clinical into its line of touch-screen EMR and discharge systems for emergency rooms and urgent care centers. The agreement was announced at the ongoing HIMSS11, where Wolters Kluwer Health is featuring several of its leading clinical decision support (CDS) tools, including Medi-Span Clinical, in Booth #6162.

ScriptRx is a provider of electronic discharge systems specific to the 'walk-in' ambulatory sector of healthcare, including hospital emergency departments, urgent care centers and retail health clinics. Its interactive EMR, Discharge Instructions, Prescription Writing and Medication Reconciliation systems are packaged into intuitive, user-friendly and customisable software with touch-screen hardware. Designed to be a low-cost alternative to more complicated medical software programmes, ScriptRx systems enable physicians to chart patient encounters, prescribe medications, access drug reference information, generate legible discharge instructions and view formulary information, all at the point of care.

Medi-Span Clinical is a CDS platform that delivers the functionality, interoperability and medication-related decision support necessary to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and to achieve meaningful use of health IT.

For EMR vendors, Medi-Span Clinical delivers CCHIT-compliant medication-related CDS and enables client organisations to meet multiple criteria for meaningful use. It was developed architecturally to adapt easily to a continuously evolving certification environment, with a flexible platform that can grow and expand to meet future criteria with minimal impact to customers.

For clinicians, Medi-Span Clinical delivers a full slate of medication-related CDS features, including drug interactions, route contraindications and drug allergy alerts. It provides links to supporting medical evidence, the ability to turn off individual interactions or allergic reactions and flexible screening capabilities. Finally, Medi-Span Clinical features a full range of application programming interfaces (APIs), including those that support dose screening and recommended drug orders; identification of therapeutic duplications; pregnancy, lactation and age- and gender-conflict checking; and drug-to-disease screening.

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Over 2,500 physicians from across the US have reportedly come together on QuantiaMD, an online physician-to-physician learning collaborative, for a programme presented in collaboration with Journal Watch, from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine. Through the programme National Case Challenge, physicians viewed real-life case submissions in an online forum, selecting their choice of the best short-format, interactive clinical case in medicine. The large number of programme participants is seen to demonstrate that more physicians are engaging in new modes of online learning and collaboration with their colleagues nationwide.

Participants selected the case 'Brainstem Rescue' by Dr. Alvaro Alonso, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, which appeared on QuantiaMD, where one in six US physicians engage, share and learn from experts and each other, free of charge. Accessing QuantiaMD through smartphones, tablets, personal computers or point-of-care mobile devices, physicians can reportedly interact with each other and experience thousands of interactive presentations created by medical experts for their peers. The topics include general medicine, oncology, diabetes, infectious disease and mental health.

QuantiaMD seeks to provide a useful interactive learning experience by offering physicians short-form cases to challenge their diagnostic and treatment reasoning. Topics are delivered in interactive 5-8 minute narrated presentations that allow physicians to transform brief periods of downtime into productive, enjoyable learning experiences. The platform is said to enable users to respond instantly and interact with each other, creating a dynamic forum for peer validation and feedback.

QuantiaMD's collaboration with Journal Watch is stated to be based on a shared commitment to education coupled with respect for physicians' time. Journal Watch aims to deliver clinical research drawn from over 250 medical journals in a time-saving, manageable format. A panel of expert Journal Watch judges narrowed the case submissions on QuantiaMD to five finalists, which were presented to the entire medical community for selection of the top submission. Dr. Alonso's winning case, chosen by popular vote on QuantiaMD, garnered him a $2500 award.

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Healthcare consulting firm Clinical Architecture, US, will extend clinical terminology mapping to run-time environments with the introduction of Symedical Server, during the forthcoming 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) convention. The company is exhibiting (Booth: 2689) at the convention which begins on February 20 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

Clinical Architecture's Symedical product line is used by leading health systems and healthcare application vendors to achieve clinical interoperability. Symedical Server expands the computer-assisted terminology mapping tool's capabilities with transaction channel monitoring, new term identification, remote map administration and advanced algorithms that leverage prior work. Symedical Server is designed to meet current and future market demands and regulatory requirements.

Soon, the “meaningful use� of electronic medical records will require a higher standard of interoperability. Phase II calls for the ability to send and receive discrete coded, machine readable medical information.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced a joint venture with leading China drug information provider Medicom to deliver clinical decision support to doctors in China as the country prepares for significant changes to its healthcare system. The deal allows WK Health to expand its market-leading Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and drug information business into the rapidly growing China market and creates a needed drug information infrastructure in China.

The announcement comes as the Chinese government is focused on healthcare reform to conform standards of care and an increasing number of doctors in China prepare to pursue graduate school degrees.

Medicom, located in the city of Chengdu in the Sichuan Province, has a strong footprint in the China healthcare market, providing drug information and services. Its products and services are highly complementary to those of Wolters Kluwer Health's Clinical Solutions business, which offers healthcare professionals fast access to evidence-based medical information that helps clinicians effectively manage patient care on a daily basis. The combined offering is projected to create a robust library of clinical content that physicians can access at the point of learning as well as at the point of care with patients.

As part of the agreement, Wolters Kluwer Health will have a controlling interest in the joint venture. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Jordan Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for the organisation.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 400,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Essent Healthcare has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for the system's five hospitals.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 400,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Community Memorial Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for its two hospitals.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 400,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes more than 97,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it will be exhibiting on Stand #512 at the ongoing Online Information Conference, being held in London's Grand Olympia Hall through December 2, 2010.

Representatives will be on hand to discuss new publishing partnerships and initiatives designed to support the transformation of research into knowledge for users at the point of practice, education and research. In addition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid's sister company, will also be showcasing new initiatives.

Attendees are encouraged to visit Stand #512 for news on local-language initiatives, new partnerships with Chinese and Egyptian medical publishers, and the company's expansion of evidence-based content offerings with the Joanne Briggs Institute.

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The British National Formulary (BNF) and MedKeeper, a provider of clinical and workflow pharmacy tools, have announced a partnership to extend support for local content management by providing a locally installable intranet version. The 61st edition of the BNF will include content from both BNF and BNF for Children (BNFC) together with a tool for the management of local content, building on MedKeeper's experience in the development of pharmacy software. This is expected to contribute to safer prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines by improving point of care access to BNF guidance and local formulary information.

The BNF seeks to provide up-to-date, practical guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. It aims to enable healthcare professionals to maximise the benefits of drug treatment and minimise the risks, while encouraging good compliance with treatment. The publication is supposedly consulted over three million times a week and regarded as the number one prescribing resource by four out of five professionals in the UK Statistics taken from a Medicines Information Survey conducted by independent market research agency Kantar Health, 2010. BNFC claims to be an up-to-date and comprehensive source of guidance on how to use medicines to treat children.

The BNF is a product of a joint venture between the BMJ Group and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The BNFC is a product of the joint venture among the BMJ Group, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The BNF and BNFC are published by Pharmaceutical Press and BMJ Group on behalf of the joint ventures.

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The British National Formulary (BNF) has announced the launch of Knowledge Integration Solutions for safer and more accurate electronic prescribing and dispensing of drugs in the NHS.

The BNF's clinical decision support and knowledge products include a range of data sets aligned with nationally mandated coding schemes for system interoperability which generate contextually relevant active alerts within the user's workflow. It also enables doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to check electronically for allergies, drug interactions, duplicate therapy, contra-indications and dose ranges.

The BNF now also provides a range of data sets and tools to allow the integration of referential and dose information into clinical workflows to aid the cataloguing of medicines and management of medicines policies across a Trust. These new digital developments enable its data sets to be integrated with Cerner's NHS Millennium application. BNF knowledge continues to be available within EMIS, the main e-prescribing system in UK primary care.

Pharmacists can also benefit from BNF's partnership with McLernon Computers, enabling pharmacists to access BNF or BNF for Children information when and where they need it. Additional access is also available to other key references such as Martindale and Stockley on the MedicinesComplete platform. Contextual links from the Ascribe Electronic Prescribing application to the relevant information in the BNF is expected to help pharmacists in the dispensing process.

The BNF is a joint publication of the BMJ Group and Pharmaceutical Press on behalf of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The publication is consulted over 3 million times a week and regarded as the number one prescribing resource by 4 out of 5 professionals in the NHS.

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Healthcare firm MSD - which is known as Merck in the US and Canada – has announced a new partnership between univadis, its medical education and health information website, and medical journal The Lancet.

Through a global medical literature service called Just Published, clinical specialists registered on univadis will receive free access to the full text of recently published articles from The Lancet. This new service will be available on www.univadis.com.

Just Published aims to help clinicians keep abreast of the latest and most important clinical information in their field by providing the full text of key research articles recently published in The Lancet, and weekly summaries of research in other journals. To ensure full independence and impartiality of Just Published and delivery of the most relevant information, articles from other top journals will be identified and selected on the basis of elements such as journal impact factors, author citations and article downloads.

Abstracts of articles will initially be offered in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese and Japanese to serve the different countries around the world in which univadis is available.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Centegra Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for the system's three hospitals.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 8,300 topics in 16 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its clinical reference tool, DynaMed, has partnered with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to help physicians understand the scope of the medical research being published every day.

Through this partnership, physicians from around the world, combining the McMaster University and DynaMed communities, will rate the most important research articles for specific relevance at the point of care and identify the practice-changing articles across all disciplines.

Given the sheer volume of the new information being published, it is practically impossible for a practicing physician to read every article or to identify which articles contain research that needs to be put into practice. Having a mechanism to synthesise the new medical evidence into a useable format and rate the relevance is becoming more and more essential. The agreement between McMaster University and DynaMed provides physicians with the information they need to know - the best available evidence - when and where they need it most - at the point of care.

McMaster University and DynaMed add context to the medical literature allowing hospitals and healthcare providers to make decisions based on the best available evidence. The Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University has established a process to identify high-quality medical research and has recruited a global network of thousands of physicians spanning all disciplines that evaluates the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of high quality research articles.

DynaMed is a point-of-care clinical reference and decision support resource that identifies the best available evidence. It uses a team of physicians, health professionals from other disciplines and scientists trained in research methodology to critically analyse the content; summarizes research evidence for rapid application; and makes the information available for physicians to find in the moment-to-moment context of patient care.

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Healthcare information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released the latest version of its Clinical Xpert Navigator mobile clinical data application. The new version allows hospital-based clinicians to access complete patient clinical data - including laboratory results, medications, vital signs, observations, transcribed reports, demographics, and more via their iPhone, iPod touch, and iPadTM devices. A demonstration of the new functionality is available at clinicalxpert.com/iphone.

Clinical Xpert aggregates real-time data feeds from disparate hospital information systems and creates a single patient record. This patient information is then pushed out to different applications for clinicians via the Web and mobile devices. The tool can be quickly integrated within any hospital IT environment - including hospitals using platforms from Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, GE, MEDITECH, McKesson and Siemens. In just a few weeks, hospital clinicians can begin accessing their real-time patient data anytime, anywhere.

Clinical Xpert has been providing mobile patient data to hospital clinicians for over ten years. With this latest enhancement, it now supports more mobile platforms than any other mobile data vendor. In addition to supporting clinicians using the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices, Clinical Xpert also supports BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm mobile platforms.

The Clinical Xpert suite of workflow solutions includes Navigator for rounding physicians, CareFocus for real-time clinical surveillance, Billing for recording charges for clinical procedures performed in the hospital, and Pharmacy Xpert for more efficiently managing the hospital pharmacists medication therapy.

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International Medical News Group (IMNG), US, an Elsevier company, has announced the relaunch of its websites for Internal Medicine News and Hospitalist News.

Internal Medicine News Digital Network is the online destination and multimedia properties of Internal Medicine News, the independent news publication for internal medicine specialists. According to IMNG, Internal Medicine News has been the leading source of news and commentary about clinical developments in internal medicine, as well as healthcare policy and regulations that affect the physician's practice since 1968.

Hospitalist News Digital Network is the online destination and multimedia properties of Hospitalist News. Launched in 2008, Hospitalist News is an independent monthly newspaper for specialists in hospital-based medicine. The publication features clinical, health policy, and regulatory news that is specifically tailored to the practice needs of hospitalists.

The goal of these revamped sites is to help visitors stay current, save time and gain perspective. The new web portals will feature breaking news and hot topic sections relevant to each specialty, such as cardiovascular disease/heart failure, infectious diseases and pain for Hospitalist News and depression, diabetes, and women's health for Internal Medicine News. Also available on each site are blogs and commentaries from respected leaders in the field, videos, and podcasts. Other site features include job search and recruitment, interactive meeting calendar, subscription renewal and more.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Sansum Clinic will deploy Medi-Span to provide clinicians with point-of-care access to comprehensive drug information and medication decision support. Sansum Clinic is a nonprofit healthcare organisation between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Medi-Span provides the comprehensive, up-to-date drug information and clinical decision support systems clinicians need to work efficiently and protect patients. Medi-Span products provide clinicians with drug information that will assist in making difficult drug therapy decisions, improving patient outcome, minimising patient risks and containing costs.

When integrated with EMR/EHR systems, Medi-Span's product suite assists with patient care and education; screening for potential interactions; pricing and reimbursement decision making; and ensuring orders are properly entered and therapies are not replicated unnecessarily. A full list of Medi-Span's databases and tools for healthcare facilities is available at medispan.com/health-care-facilities.aspx.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a new partnership with the American Nurses Association (ANA). Under the deal, ANA will offer a collection of its essential professional reference titles through OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid, the health information search, discovery, and management solutions.

Key ANA books scheduled to be available include: Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice; Nursing's Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession; Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements; Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Interpretation and Application; Magnet Hospitals Revisited: Attraction and Retention of Professional Nurses; Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice; and Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.

OvidSP claims to be the industry-leading online search and discovery platform that offers a comprehensive selection of aggregated peer-reviewed medical research content. Its unique tools and features are designed to maximise search precision and efficiency, and simplify and speed analysis and workflow. OvidSP's nursing portal, Nursing@Ovid, offers unique tools and features designed to maximise search precision and efficiency. The portal includes resources from some of the world's leading publishers.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an exclusive partnership with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a recognised global leader in evidence-based healthcare resources based at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The move is part of an expansion of the nursing, allied health, and medical content delivered to customers of products in the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals and Ovid brands.

Under this agreement, LWW and Ovid will deliver JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) to its global clinical point-of-care services market immediately, with an expansion into all markets beginning in October 2012. JBI COnNECT+ is JBI's web portal for content and user tools designed to assist healthcare providers to access, appraise, and use evidence-based information in clinical decision-making processes. In addition, LWW and Ovid are now the exclusive global channels for online access to an expanded version of JBI's PACEsetterS publication, which brings the latest advances in evidence-based practice information, audit and implementation for healthcare providers and consumers.

This is the first step in a deeper long-term collaboration between JBI, LWW, and Ovid focusing on opportunities to further develop and integrate JBI content and tools into multiple Wolters Kluwer Health destinations.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a partnership with the China-based publisher Higher Education Press (HEP), to offer English-language and bilingual traditional Chinese medicine books.

To support the growing need for online access to Chinese-language medical content, Ovid will be expanding its local-language search portal to offer Chinese-language books and journals. OvidSP claims to be the industry-leading online search and discovery platform that offers a comprehensive selection of aggregated peer-reviewed medical research content. Its unique tools and features are designed to maximise search precision and efficiency, and simplify and speed analysis and workflow.

OvidSP is an online information search and discovery platform that seeks to transform how researchers search for and manage online information. Recent enhancements to the search and discovery platform include new work productivity tools for more streamlined results and citation management; MyProjects a dedicated work area within the platform for creating and managing research projects; the Ovid Toolbar, for saving URLs and search engine results retrieved through browsing online outside of the OvidSP environment; as well as additional interface feature enhancements.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a partnership with the Taiwan Society of Cardiology to deliver its official journal, Acta Cardiologica Sinica, through the latter's OvidSP search, discovery, and management platform. As one of the world's leading aggregators of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers.

The Taiwan Society of Cardiology, based in Taipei, promotes cardiology research, teaching, prevention, and treatment via lectures and seminars, training, treatment guidelines, and other avenues. Acta Cardiologica Sinica, the Society's official journal, publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of cardiovascular disease and basic science, including original clinical or experimental studies, review articles, case reports, short reports and letters to the editor.

OvidSP is an online information search and discovery platform that seeks to transform how researchers search for and manage online information. Recent enhancements to the search and discovery platform include new work productivity tools for more streamlined results and citation management; MyProjects a dedicated work area within the platform for creating and managing research projects; the Ovid Toolbar, for saving URLs and search engine results retrieved through browsing online outside of the OvidSP environment; as well as additional interface feature enhancements.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that St. Mary's Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organisation's electronic order set solution. Located in Huntington, W. Va., St. Mary's Medical Center claims to be the region's leading medical provider. It is Joint Commission accredited with Centers of Excellence in cardiac care, cancer treatment, emergency/trauma services and neuroscience.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution. It provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence. This includes direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool. The tool leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 15 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare technologies and services provider QuadraMed has announced a partnership with Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare. Under the deal, CPMRC will provide QuadraMed's clients with nursing and allied health clinical documentation, care planning, and clinical practice guidelines, as well as transformation services.

CPMRC brings evidence-based clinical content products and practice transformation services that assist healthcare organisations in creating a healthy work culture and interdisciplinary integration. The partnership will enable meaningful clinician workflow based on evidence-based best practices, which will accelerate documentation processes and help improve the quality of care. With QuadraMed's integrated Computerised-Patient Record (QCPR) solutions, health systems will no longer need to develop their own content from scratch, which will enable nurses and allied health professionals to bring evidence-based information to the patient directly at the point of care.

As a result of this partnership, QuadraMed clients will be able to join the CPMRC International Consortium, a voluntary organisation made up of hundreds of hospitals, health systems, and educational institutions. Through CPMRC's interdisciplinary content, the integrated solution will also enhance the education of clinicians on the use of health information technology, which will help them meet meaningful-use requirements.

CPMRC's Clinical Practice Models embrace the concept of providing a complete solution to assist healthcare organisations with practice transformation and the transition to electronic health records. Their integrated solutions help standardise care, while ensuring seamless adoption by the clinical team.

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Multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation IBM, US, and ActiveHealth Management, an Aetna subsidiary, have unveiled a new cloud computing and clinical decision support solution. IBM and ActiveHealth Management worked together to create the Collaborative Care Solution that gives physicians and patients access to the information they need to improve the overall quality of care, without the need to invest in new infrastructure. The solution is built on combining IBM's Health Information Framework, IBM Initiate Exchange and advanced health analytics from Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and predictive analytics from IBM Research with ActiveHealth CareEngine clinical decision support and the Active CareTeam.

Patients often have to carry their health history information with them from visit to visit. Doctors don't always have the information they need when they need to quickly make patient care decisions. The Collaborative Care Solution addresses these issues by gathering patients' health data from multiple sources to create a detailed patient record.

The solution employs advanced analytics software to provide an innovative approach to patient care in which physicians can easily access and automatically analyse a patient's condition. By combining information from electronic medical records, claims, medication and lab data with ActiveHealth's evidence-based clinical decision support CareEngine and delivering it through an IBM cloud computing platform, doctors will be able to deliver more complete and accurate decisions about patient care. Further, this solution can help reduce spending on ineffective treatments and unnecessary tests. According to a recent study by Thomson Reuters, approximately $800 billion is wasted each year in the U.S on health care considered ineffective. It can also help provide better insight for treating patients with chronic conditions such as coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and diabetes, which account for 80 percent of all healthcare costs.

With all healthcare data and IT resources managed in a cloud environment, the system will enable the coordination of patient care among teams, so doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, aides, therapists and pharmacists can easily access, share and address information about patients from a single source. The solution can also show trends in how patients are responding, for instance, to treatment for chronic asthma or adhering to drug regimens and automatically alert doctors to conflicting or missed prescriptions.

For one fixed monthly fee, healthcare organisations will have access to all the tools and services without having to make significant upfront investments - avoiding the challenge of updating systems when clinical guidelines or reporting requirements change or when patient loads grow. Additionally, the solution provides advanced analytics that help physicians or entire healthcare organisations measure their performance against national or hospital quality standards.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, recently partnered with nine new premium publishers to deliver full-text content across a wide variety of medical, scientific, and health science disciplines through its OvidSP search, discovery, and management platform. As one of the world's leading aggregators of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers.

Recently signed new publishers include EB Medicine; Future Science (part of the Future Science Group); Expert Reviews (part of the Future Science Group); Future Medicine Ltd. (part of the Future Science Group); Jannetti Publications; Manson Publishing; MJ Powers and Co.; Thomas Land Publishers; and Willan Publishing.

OvidSP is an online information search and discovery platform that seeks to transform how researchers search for and manage online information. Recent enhancements to the search and discovery platform include new work productivity tools for more streamlined results and citation management; MyProjects a dedicated work area within the platform for creating and managing research projects; the Ovid Toolbar, for saving URLs and search engine results retrieved through browsing online outside of the OvidSP environment; as well as additional interface feature enhancements.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that a new service within its DynaMed point-of-care clinical reference will link clinicians to cost assistance programmes designed to help patients afford their medications. DynaMed drug topics now include links to NeedyMeds, a non-profit organisation that provides patients with free information on how to obtain medication cost assistance - with or without health insurance.

To help clinicians provide comprehensive information on pharmaceutical cost assistance to their patients, DynaMed has added direct links from most drug topics to the related NeedyMeds information page. The Medication Cost Assistance Program section of the drug topic can be referenced to share information with the patient on cost assistance and/or discounted rates for drugs. NeedyMeds also provides information on federal and state programmes for medical care for adults and children, and cost assistance programmes for medical supplies.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care - providing the best available evidence for making informed clinical decisions. With clinically-organised summaries for thousands of topics and daily updates, DynaMed claims to be the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice.

Most of the current assistance programmes require US residency, but non-US programmes can be added to DynaMed as the information becomes available.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that East Tennessee Children's Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets. Located in Knoxville, Tenn., the 152-bed East Tennessee Children's Hospital is a private, independent, not-for-profit pediatric medical center caring for children in 16 counties in East Tennessee.

ProVation Order Sets claims to be an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of the primary values of ProVation Order Sets is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence. This includes direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool. The tool leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 15 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based on client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Southern Ohio Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets. Located in Portsmouth, Ohio, the 222-bed Southern Ohio Medical Center provides emergency and surgical care, as well as a wide range of other inpatient and outpatient services.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, claims to be an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical's clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets' primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which allows hospitals to easily and automatically update order sets to keep current with the latest medical evidence. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

UpToDate covers over 7,700 topics in 15 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it will be highlighting its OvidSP platform enhancements at this year's Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference in New Orleans, LA. Enhancements include new productivity tools, improved results management features, and greater customisation options to search, browse and manage results and research projects.

In addition to the latest OvidSP enhancements, visitors to Ovid's booth #713 can also learn about QUOSA full-text documentation tools as well as important, industry-leading Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Science databases and full-text resources available through OvidSP.

Ovid representatives will demonstrate how OvidSP offers quick, easy access to accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date information in pharmacology, pharmaceutical science, toxicology, and related specialties - everything from regularly-updated pipeline databases to specialty journals on drug therapy to comprehensive reference textbooks and more.

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The BMJ Evidence Centre, part of the BMJ Group, UK, and the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust have announced that both parties will work together to pilot a standardised checklist of actions to help clinicians make the best decisions for their patients.

Beginning June 1, 2010, the predefined lists of orders and actions for gastro-intestinal bleeding, called Action Sets, will be instantly accessed through the Cerner electronic patient records system. They will provide doctors and nurses with evidence-based recommendations to guide treatment decisions, ensuring that patients receive the best and most appropriate care and helping to avoid mistakes.

The initiative is expected to enable clinicians at Royal Free to quickly access information about specific treatment outcomes; analyse that data to determine best practices; and quickly share the findings with other trusts - a process that is virtually impossible with paper-based medical records.

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Healthcare consulting and software solutions company Clinical Architecture, US, has announced that Picis, a global provider of innovative information solutions for acute care settings, has selected its Symedical interoperability solution.

Symedical enables clinical applications to share patient information as actionable discrete data. Picis chose to integrate Symedical into its CareSuite family of high-acuity solutions to support new medication decision support capabilities.

Clinical Architecture specialises in meeting the integration and interoperability needs of healthcare through niche consulting and application development. With Symedical, the company has introduced a unique approach to automating the creation and ongoing management of clinical terminology maps. According to the company, meaningful clinical decision support requires a consistently accurate representation of the patient's clinical context which is possible with Symedical.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has released a new version of its electronic order set solution, ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support. The new release includes the unique One Click Updates tool, which allows hospitals to easily and automatically update order sets to keep current with the latest medical evidence.

A customisable order set authoring and management solution, ProVation Order Sets provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. One of its primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, which claims to be the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

The One Click Updates tool leverages UpToDate's Practice Changing Updates feature, which highlights new recommendations that may change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets, allowing them to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.

Specifically, the One Click Updates feature provides a list of new practice-changing updates in a live newsfeed; identifies a list of the order sets or care plans that may be impacted by each update item; recommends specific edits to the content of the impacted order sets; and allows the user to apply recommended edits to some or all of the affected order sets or care plans in a single step.

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Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that ProMedica Health System (PHS) will provide nursing information in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott's Nursing Advisor to the nurses in their facilities. ProMedica Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare organisation that cares for more than 2.4 million patients annually.

Developed by a team of expert nurses with extensive clinical experience, Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott's Nursing Advisor offer a combination of features that help promote, monitor, and maintain staff excellence. By having institution-wide online access to almost 1,000 evidence-based procedures and skills in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and the point-of-care information found in Lippincott's Nursing Advisor, ProMedica's nurses are able to find trusted answers to critical nursing questions quickly and easily.

Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills is also integrated in the HealthStream Learning Center (HLC), allowing ProMedica, and other HealthStream customers, to efficiently handle the assignment, tracking and reporting of procedures as learning activities.

Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills gives nurses accurate, step-by-step guidance for almost 1,000 procedures. It also provides skills checklists and competency tests on each procedure to help facilities verify their staff competence. Each procedure undergoes a thorough annual review process to ensure the most up-to-date clinical information is provided. Facilities are able to customize the program and procedures to meet their specific needs.

Lippincott's Nursing Advisor is designed to give nurses easy access to the specific information needed to provide optimal patient care, including drug, disease, treatment, diagnostic test, care plan, patient teaching, and sign and symptom information. Unique customisation features allow hospital protocols or critical notes pertaining to those areas to be added, improving staff awareness, compliance and care standardization. This feature provides a valuable reference and training tool, customized to individual or system hospitals.

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid platform enhancements including new productivity tools, improved results management features, and greater customisation options to search, browse and manage results and research projects will be featured at MLA 2010 in Washington, DC. New content offerings from Primal Pictures, Wiley-Blackwell, and other key publishing partners will also be highlighted.

Representatives from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Ovid's sister company at Wolters Kluwer Health, will join Ovid in booth #227 and showcase 2010 new full-text journals and more. Visitors to Ovid's booth can preview new productivity functionality for OvidSP, a complete online research solution. OvidSP offers a single online destination for search, discovery and managing critical information needed to streamline research productivity and work.

New content offerings and 3-D anatomy modules from Primal Pictures will also be highlighted as well as more than 300 books from Wiley-Blackwell spanning a wide range of medical, nursing, and behavioral science disciplines. More than 300 medical and nursing ejournals from Wiley-Blackwell are also available on OvidSP.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education will provide point-of-care Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit to users of MD Consult and First Consult. Users of First Consult and MD Consult will earn Point-Of-Care CME Credit as they perform searches and access relevant content to answer patient care questions. First Consult provides instant access to information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis and prevention. MD Consult, a clinical reference tool, is utilised by more than 2000 healthcare organisations and 95 percent of all medical schools in the US.

After performing a search and finding the answer in MD Consult’s breadth of clinical content, physicians can then click on ‘Request CME’ and complete a short form from the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education. The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education is accredited at the highest level (with commendation) by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. By submitting the short form, physicians can earn 0.5 American Medical Association PRA (Physician’s Recognition Award) Category 1 Credit(s) for each search conducted through MD Consult and First Consult.

It has been observed that physicians are turning increasingly to the Internet for clinical information. According to a November 2009 survey commissioned by Google, 86 percent of US physicians now use the Internet to gather health, medical or prescription drug information. A 2009 Manhattan Research survey put the number at 89 percent, and one-third of physicians have claimed that they changed a patient’s treatment as the result of an Internet search. Instead of relying on the unproven information available widely on the Internet, Elsevier sees physicians gravitating more to the evidence-based clinical content provided by online tools such as MD Consult and First Consult.

MD Consult delivers instant access to full-text articles from more than 80 medical journals and Clinics, 50 medical references across a range of specialties, clinically relevant drug information, and more than 10,000 patient handouts in English and Spanish. First Consult offers an online database on patient evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, tests and prevention, interactive access to potential diagnoses and video and animated guidance on common medical procedures.

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The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has announced that it will be the clinical content source for patient care plans and clinical documentation at multiple hospitals of Milwaukee-based Froedtert & Community Health. The Wisconsin hospital group is composed of Froedtert Hospital, the major teaching hospital of the Medical College of Wisconsin; Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls; and St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend.

Froedtert & Community Health began implementation of the inpatient Epic EHR in 2009. As part of phase two planning for the inpatient clinical documentation in 2009, a task force of interdisciplinary professionals from Froedtert, Community Memorial and St. Joseph’s launched a collaborative decision making process to choose the clinical content source for its inpatient care plans. The hospital system’s Epic Executive Management Committee approved the CPRMC recommendation in December 2009.

By partnering with CPMRC to implement standardised evidence based clinical content for care plans and documentation of professional services, these hospitals seek to advance evidence-based interdisciplinary care and collaboration, address requirements of meaningful use and enhance the patient experience. CPMRC’s Point of Care Integrated Solutions, which will serve as content sources for Froedtert & Community Health’s evidence-based interdisciplinary care plans, features patient profile/history/admission assessment, patient plan of care, clinical practice guidelines, patient assessments and interventions, outcome evaluation, professional exchange, and specific content for newborn, neonatal ICU, pediatric, OB, adult and geriatric populations.

Froedtert & Community Health professionals were also eager to participate in CPMRC’s 25-year-old International Healthcare Consortium, where close to 300 hospital members implement an innovative interdisciplinary practice framework across multiple care settings through interdisciplinary teams. The CPMRC consortium recently received the 2010 National Academies of Practice Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award.

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The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has launched its first web-based version of Point of Care Guidelines (http://www.cpmrc.com/). The online edition of its guidelines seeks to support new and emerging meaningful use requirements for care coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration with a model that is aimed at helping improve practice at the point of care.

The online guidelines are designed to offer an evidence-based approach to patient care covering medical, surgical and human response diagnoses. Users are provided with new and enhanced features including varied search mechanisms; direct, internal links; relevant external resource site links; evidence leveling and recommendation grading; and customisation options to add hospital specific policies, announcements and branding on the homepage. Nurses and interdisciplinary professionals can expect to obtain quick access to more than 200 CPMRC clinical practice guidelines.

The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center is projected to embrace both educational and practice settings. The model's core beliefs are purportedly related to safe, individualised healthcare; healthy work culture; continuous learning; evidence-based action; partnership; individual accountability; shared mission, vision and values; and healthy relationships. Information is updated in real-time and developed by expert interdisciplinary clinicians through the nearly 300 member CPMRC International Consortium, which maintains a continuous feedback loop designed to ensure credible, relevant information and CPMRC's development methodology.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the addition of FDA Advisory Committee content to Pharmapendium, an online resource for preclinical, clinical and post-market drug information.

The newly added documents seek to provide preclinical and clinical drug development and regulatory affairs departments with a substantial collection of comparative scientific and regulatory data that may not be included in final FDA Approval Package documents. For the first time FDA Advisory Committee content and FDA Approval Packages can be searched simultaneously via a single source on PharmaPendium, according to Elsevier.

The expansion of searchable FDA approval coverage is projected to give pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies deeper insights into regulatory context, precedent content and the FDA drug approval process. Organised by committee, more than 140,000 pages of FDA Advisory Committee meeting minutes, rosters, supplementary documents, transcripts and PowerPoints are being added. Content from 19 CDER and CBER committees is also represented.

PharmaPendium is designed to support both scientific and business decisions within the pharma/biotech industry. The online resource seeks to provide access via a single point to searchable and trusted drug information. It covers close to 4,000 approved drugs, with integrated preclinical, clinical and post-market safety data. PharmaPendium is owned and protected by Elsevier Properties SA and used under licence.

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Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), US, has added new resources to help prevent hospital-acquired conditions to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor. Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is an online evidence-based reference that allows instant access to trusted nursing clinical information. It provides nurses with updated, evidence-based, actionable and point-of-care best prevention practices for each of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS) identified hospital-acquired conditions.

The point-of-care tool allows a facility to include its own customised protocols, such as specific present-on-admission (POA) coding instructions. The added resources in Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor also give clear guidelines for what to do when prevention measures fail.

Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is designed to give nurses quick and efficient access to the specific information needed to provide optimal patient care, including expert content from the best-selling Nursing2011 Drug Handbook. Drug, disease, treatment, diagnostic test, care plan and signs and symptoms monographs provide essential information such as adverse reactions to a drug, pathophysiology of a disease, or an essential overview of a medical or surgical treatment. Unique customisation features allow hospital protocols or critical notes pertaining to those areas to be added, thereby improving staff awareness, compliance and care standardisation.

Institutions can upgrade their subscriptions with integrated access to Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills or the comprehensive Wolters Kluwer Health Ovid Resource library for a complete nursing reference solution.

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Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has launched Medi-Span Clinical, a clinical decision support (CDS) platform that delivers the functionality, interoperability and medication-related CDS necessary to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and to achieve meaningful use of health IT.

Medi-Span Clinical was developed architecturally to easily adapt to a continuously evolving certification environment, with a flexible platform that can grow and expand to meet future criteria with minimal impact to customers.

For EMR vendors, Medi-Span Clinical delivers CCHIT-compliant medication-related clinical decision support and enables client organisations to meet multiple criteria for meaningful use, as currently defined. The platform contains a suite of Application Programming Interfaces (API) that allows health information system vendors to utilise Medi-Span content, terminology mappings and featured functionality in a manner that seamlessly integrates into new and existing EHR applications. Utilisation of APIs allows development efforts to focus on the application rather than the underlying data structure.

For clinicians, Medi-Span Clinical delivers a full slate of medication-related CDS features, including drug interactions, route contraindications and drug allergy alerts. Additionally, the Medi-Span Clinical vision features a full range of APIs, including those that support dose screening and recommended drug orders, identification of therapeutic duplications, pregnancy, lactation and age and gender conflict checking, and drug to disease screening.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Elsevier Clinical Decision Support (CDS) will feature solutions that directly impact the quality of care at the HIMSS 2010 event in Atlanta from March 1-3. The solutions include evidence-based clinical content and tools; interdisciplinary documentation, planning and guidelines; drug decision support; interactive skills and procedures; data mining and outcomes analysis; and e-learning.

CDS representatives will present how its solutions can help clinicians, hospitals and healthcare systems improve care quality and achieve meaningful use of healthcare information and technology.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in its recent proposed definition of meaningful use, said that the healthcare industry would be best served by ‘achieving improvements in quality, safety and efficiency, focusing on decision support for national high priority conditions, patient access to self management tools, access to comprehensive patient data, and improving population health outcomes.’ In line with this, three key Elsevier experts will discuss their perspectives on several CDS solutions at HIMSS 2010.

By following CMS’ lead and renewing its focus on care quality and efficiency, Elsevier seeks to continue its efforts to deliver evidence-based content, products and services that help medical professionals concentrate on improving care and outcomes.

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Shared Health, Inc., a public/private health information exchange (HIE), has partnered with health information provider MEDai, Inc., US, part of STM publisher Elsevier, to provide a rich, interoperable, clinically relevant HIE platform to the state of Tennessee. This partnership seeks to deliver solutions and technologies that support clinical excellence and operating efficiencies. It comes at a time when stimulus funding is being leveraged to create an information exchange that helps drive meaningful use of healthcare information technology and care improvement across the healthcare continuum.

Shared Health Clinical Xchange improves the types of clinical information available to providers, helping physician practices operate more efficiently and deliver better overall patient care by bringing patient-centric information from an entire health care team to the point of care. By merging key clinical data with administrative data, Clinical Xchange takes practices ‘out of the silo’ and delivers a comprehensive clinical decision support solution. Clinical Xchange supports proactive and preventive health initiatives – disease management, wellness and early intervention.

MEDai’s predictive modeling and evidence-based medicine guideline compliance capability forms the core of actionable information within Shared Health’s clinical data-sharing platform, Clinical Xchange. This platform integrates clinical decision support and population management tools to better inform clinicians and help promote evidence-based guideline compliance and coordination of care. It is interoperable with any electronic medical record (EMR) and can create a longitudinal view of the patient drawn from a variety of sources, including the exam room, the lab, the pharmacy, the payer and the patient.

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Mobile medical references provider Skyscape, US, has launched a mobile clinical decision application on the Google Android operating system. Skyscape’s medical resources are now available on most smart phone devices, allowing medical professionals to easily download the latest medical information.

The technology produced by Skyscape gives medical practitioners access to up-to-date clinical information on their mobile devices, allowing them to spend more time treating patients and less time rummaging through volumes of research. The application also allows them to treat patients in a variety of settings and locations, without being tied to a computer. With the Android operating system, all of the medical information needed to quickly and accurately diagnose and treat a patient is available on the same mobile device.

With the expansion of the Skyscape system onto the Android operating system, Skyscape claims to have become the first mobile clinical decision support provider to offer its application on all major mobile carriers. In addition to their current iPhone enabled application, the Skyscape programme will now be available on a number of Android OS enabled phones, including the HTC Touch, the Zii Trinity, Samsung Behold, G2, G3, G4, MyTouch, and DROID.

Widespread access to up-to-the-minute medical information is transforming the way physicians are able to treat patients around the globe. Wireless handheld devices such as Blackberry, iPhone and PDA are being projected as an ideal platform for mobile learning and reference, particularly in medical education and practice. Earlier last month, US-based healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine announced the launch of Evidence Central, an integrated evidence-based solution, with content from its partner, Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Evidence Central supports effective medical practice through delivery of the latest research and guidelines to mobile devices and the web.

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Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced the launch of Evidence Central, an integrated evidence-based solution, with content from its partner, Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US. Evidence Central supports effective medical practice through delivery of the latest research and guidelines to mobile devices and the web.

Evidence Central is designed to answer evidence-based questions and keep clinicians up to date by delivering the latest scientific research and literature on a daily basis. It includes up-to-date review abstracts of therapeutic interventions in Cochrane Abstracts, clinical guidelines and supporting summaries in Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines, daily relevant evidence reviews in EE+ POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters from Essential Evidence Plus), and literature citations, abstracts, and links to full text in MEDLINE Journals. Powered by the Unbound Platform, this clinically-useful information is easily accessible on the web or mobile device platforms including iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, and Palm.

Clinicians can search Cochrane Abstracts summaries detailing the validity of research findings on a medical topic, then use Cross Links to connect to clinical guidelines and supporting information, including images and videos. Unbound Medicine’s MEDLINE Journals feature connects these entries to journal abstracts and provides alerts for new journal articles as they are published. Daily EE+ POEMs are organised for easy application in practice and are available in an archive for future reference.

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International STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced the launch of Essential Evidence, a new product added to its online, evidence-based content resource Essential Evidence Plus. Synthesised from timely and late-breaking clinical evidence derived from the world's most respected medical authorities, this topic-oriented clinical resource tool is projected to help clinicians to more effectively make diagnoses, chart treatment plans, and determine prognoses.

Essential Evidence is available exclusively with a subscription to Essential Evidence Plus, and is accessible through the web or via handheld computer (Pocket PC or Palm OS). The product features about 700 structured medical topics at launch with approximately 100 more in development. All topics are highly integrated and hyperlinked to content and tools including Cochrane Reviews, literature summaries (Daily POEMs), decision support tools, evidence-based guidelines, and interactive diagnostic test calculators.

Topics covered in Essential Evidence are written by leading researchers and peer-reviewed by medical experts. These experts evaluate clinical findings in the medical literature and summarise this information to provide clinicians with evidence-based data essential to making informed point-of-care decisions. Essential Evidence facilitates quick retrieval of the latest evidence that guides patient care decisions and includes a ‘Bottom Line’ feature highlighting the most important findings in each section.

All content includes a ‘strength of evidence’ rating for each recommendation that helps practitioners know which recommendations are most likely to improve health outcomes. Summary tables for at-a-glance information, algorithms for problem solving, and an extensive image library are also included to optimise patient care.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, US. Institutions currently using point-of-care resources from EBSCO and Zynx Health are expected to benefit from this new deal. The agreement gives healthcare providers integrated access to their evidence-based resources, resulting in quicker retrieval of relevant and current information and improved quality care. This expanded integration option offers consolidated access to current and consistent evidence-based information to all users in the clinical workflow.

In April 2009 an agreement was signed allowing mutual customers to access DynaMed clinical summaries via Zynx Health evidence pages. This new expanded agreement provides customers of ZynxOrder, ZynxEvidence and ZynxCare with direct links to their EBSCO point-of-care resources, providing the convenience of a single point of entry to multiple evidence-based resources for a clinical topic. The additional evidence resources available through Zynx Health evidence pages include EBSCO’s DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, Rehabilitation Reference Center and Patient Education Reference Center.

The integration of Zynx Health and EBSCO resources maximises the impact of referential content by consolidating access to multiple evidence sources, providing relevant information to all users in the clinical workflow, including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The move is part of Elsevier’s ‘All You Need to Make a Difference’ campaign. MSF had bagged the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Elsevier will donate a free subscription to MSF for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased between November 16 and December 18, 2009. Based on its projections, Elsevier estimates that the month-long campaign could provide 400 subscriptions to MSF's volunteer physicians. Based on average monthly sales, Elsevier estimates that the licenses donated to MSF's volunteer physicians could be worth as much as $140,000.

MD Consult is expected to help volunteer physicians diagnose and treat conditions associated with armed conflict, malnutrition, natural disasters and lack of access to care, and other epidemics. With a world population of close to seven billion people, some 32.9 million have HIV/AIDS, 13.7 million have tuberculosis and 247 million have malaria, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Facts.

MSF aid workers operate programmes in more than 60 countries. Elsevier, which has 7,000 employees working in more than 70 offices worldwide, has various partnerships with global science and health communities across the word. According to Elsevier estimates, clinicians in more than 139 countries use its CDS tools.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic health system in the US with 44 hospitals across eight states, will install seven of Elsevier’s online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions. With this initiative, Trinity Health seeks to meet the evolving needs of its thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals for evidence-based clinical content.

Elsevier’s comprehensive, interdisciplinary and integrated suite of CDS solutions selected by Trinity Health includes Clinical Pharmacology, which delivers expert drug information; ToxED 2.0, which facilitates treatment of drug overdose emergencies; First Consult, which provides evidence-based answers at the point of care; MD Consult, which brings leading medical resources together in a single online service; Mosby’s Nursing Consult, which helps nurses find answers to pressing clinical questions; Mosby’s Nursing Skills, which presents nearly 1,000 interactive skills adapted from nursing reference texts; and Mosby’s Index, the nursing and allied health journal abstracts and indexing database. These solutions will be installed in numerous critical access facilities, long term care and ambulatory facilities in California, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio.

Elsevier hopes that access to this high-level evidence-based content will better position Trinity Health’s diverse care providers to make informed decisions, coordinate care, engage patients and families and enhance quality, safety and efficiency.

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Hazelden, a nonprofit organisation, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) have announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new ‘Dartmouth PRC–Hazelden’ imprint.

This collaboration between Hazelden and the Dartmouth PRC is the result of the success of a project between Hazelden and Dartmouth Medical School - the 2008 publication of the Co-occurring Disorders Program, the first comprehensive, evidence-based programme for the treatment of non-severe co-occurring disorders. This programme has been adopted by several organisations, including the U.S. Navy and the Adult Mental Health Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

The new joint venture between Hazelden and the Dartmouth PRC will launch with the fall 2009 release of A Guide for Living with PTSD: Perspectives for Professionals and Their Clients, a video on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Future products will compose a continuum of evidence-based resources for working with those who have a mental health disorder or co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders, including an updated, expanded, and serviceable version of the Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment program, which will feature a new relapse prevention component. These products and trainings will be designed to serve a broad range of professionals, including counselors, social workers, nurses and psychiatrists who work in mental health agencies, the military, treatment centers, corrections departments, state governments, and industry associations.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that it is making the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free on the web. The site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) will provide evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from the Patient Education Reference Center.

The information provided under the ‘For Physicians’ and ‘For Nurses’ sections are expected to consolidate key evidence from multiple sources along with the latest evidence-based content. These are projected to help healthcare providers stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses.

The ‘For Patients’ section includes current, easy-to-understand articles written for non-medical professionals. The site adds patient education information in 17 languages including: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. It is expected that the information will allow hospitals to have resources to provide to their diverse local communities. Also, people can obtain access the latest treatment and condition information about the pandemic H1N1 and seasonal influenza.

Medical institutions, organisations, universities, schools and public libraries can add links to the EBSCO influenza portal at their own flu resources pages and websites.

In April, EBSCO Publishing announced that it was the first clinical information provider to make the clinical summaries on the pandemic H1N1 virus available for free. The www.ebscohost.com/flu site pulls together the information collected about the H1N1 outbreak and other strains of the flu in a bid to ensure key medical evidence is easy to find going into the 2009-10 flu season.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Dallas-based CHRISTUS Health will install five of Elsevier’s online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions to meet the diverse and evolving clinical decision support needs of its physicians, nurses and pharmacists.

CHRISTUS opted for Elsevier’s comprehensive, interdisciplinary and integrated suite of CDS solutions for pharmacy, medicine and nursing. Among the selected solutions are Clinical Pharmacology, which delivers expert drug information; ToxED 2.0, which facilitates treatment of drug overdose emergencies; First Consult, which provides evidence-based answers for the point of care; MD Consult, which brings leading medical resources together in a single online service; and Mosby’s Nursing Consult, which helps nurses find answers to pressing clinical questions.

Elsevier CDS solutions will be installed in 25 Texas hospitals within CHRISTUS Health, which is composed of more than 40 hospitals, inpatient and long-term care facilities, as well as multiple clinics, physician offices and healthcare services. Other factors influencing CHRISTUS’ decision to adopt multiple Elsevier solutions included its need to consolidate resources, save on costs, integrate solutions and allow physicians, nurses and pharmacists to navigate effortlessly between CDS products.

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