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.
