Thomson Reuters’ CareNotes System for patient education to include coverage in 15 languages - August 27, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has expanded its Micromedex CareNotes patient education system to include coverage in 15 languages. Until now CareNotes was available only in English and Spanish. Customers will now have access to a core set of CareNotes and DrugNotes in Arabic, Chinese… Read More
EBSCO Publishing adds text-to-speech feature to EBSCOhost databases - August 27, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems' SpeechStream toolbar. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature, provided at no additional… Read More
Journal Arthritis Research & Therapy to be published online only from 2011 - August 27, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the contents of the last regular print edition of the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy will be finalised at the end of 2010. In an editorial, published in the latest issue of the journal, Editors-in-Chief Prof Peter… Read More
NLM announces expanded character set for MEDLINE - August 27, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that starting in early September 2010, it will accept any UTF-8 character in the Latin (Roman) and Greek scripts as well as mathematical and other symbols commonly found in biomedical literature for its newly created MEDLINE records. Since… Read More
Phelps County Regional Medical Center selects WK Health’s ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding - August 27, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Phelps County Regional Medical Center has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding. ProVation MD, available for the full range of ASC specialties, replaces dictation and transcription and allows physicians… Read More
BioOne adds six new titles to 2011 collections - August 27, 2010
BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced six new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2011 BioOne Collections. These new titles are seen to further enhance the company's resource offerings. Four titles from the National Museum… Read More
