Queensland Health has renewed its partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), securing a new nine-year contract to manage the state-wide Clinical Knowledge Network (CKN). Effective from July 1, 2024, this agreement extends the already ten-year collaboration, ensuring Queensland’s healthcare professionals continue to benefit from world-class clinical information resources.
EBSCO will continue to provide comprehensive services including portal development, hosting, management, search and access tools, remote access, 24-hour user support, user training, and other value-added services. These offerings are designed to deliver an extensive collection of online information from top health publishers globally, supporting clinicians in their decision-making at the point of care.
Launched in 2001, CKN has been an essential resource for approximately 80,000 clinicians working within Queensland Health, the third-largest public health system in Australia. This network spans 16 regional and metropolitan Hospital and Health Services (HHS) and the Queensland Ambulance Service, serving a population of nearly 5.6 million people across an area seven times the size of Great Britain.
CKN equips Queensland Health’s clinicians with a variety of leading clinical decision support tools, comprehensive medicines resources, extensive clinical guidelines and standards, and a wide range of high-quality online journals, books, and research databases. The first year of the new contract will see not only the continuation of existing resources but also an expansion of research content from key medical publishers, further enhancing the breadth and depth of information available to clinicians.
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