Wikipedia is collaborating with EBSCO Health, the creators of DynaMed Plus, to help enhance healthcare entries on the popular Internet encyclopedia. Wikipedia healthcare editors will gain free access to the cross-platform, evidence-based clinical reference solution, DynaMed Plus.
Wikipedia's top healthcare editors will be given complimentary access to DynaMed Plus to assist in content generation, research and verification of information on pages dedicated to medicine, pharmacology, public health, and other related topics. Currently, there are more than 155,000 medical articles posted to Wikipedia, which are supported by over 950,000 references. Healthcare content alone was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in 2013.
DynaMed Plus is a point-of-care, evidence-based clinical reference tool available on laptops, and mobile devices running iOS and Android. It includes thousands of topics covering diseases, conditions, drugs and more, and is supplemented with 4,000 full colour images. DynaMed Plus is optimised for the way a physician works, provides the quickest time-to-answer, and delivers the most current information with validity, relevance and convenience. DynaMed Plus clinical editors monitor more than 500 medical journals on a daily basis, and evaluate each article for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing DynaMed Plus content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence.
Up to 300 complimentary accounts to DynaMed Plus will be granted to Wikipedia editors through the partnership. Healthcare editors who have held an account with Wikipedia for more than a year with a minimum of 1,000 edits can find further information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DynaMed.
