Elsevier enhances clinical decision making with suite of Clinical Decision Support solutions

Elsevier CDS provides physicians, nurses and pharmacists with quality information -- when, where and how they need it -- speeding the adoption of new medical research and improving patient care

Orlando, February 24, 2008: With a deep understanding of healthcare workflow and more than a century of experience as a global medical publisher, Elsevier is broadening its efforts to provide interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools that help providers make optimal decisions at the point of care. In December 2007 the company acquired CPM Resource Center, a provider of interactive nursing care plans and evidence-based allied health content; and in January 2008 it acquired MEDai, a leader in predictive modeling and analytics.

These acquisitions, including the 2006 acquisition of Gold Standard, developer of drug information solutions, have bolstered Elsevier’s ability to deliver a full suite of solutions that bring clinical intelligence to the point of care in support of every member of the healthcare team.

Developing a 'Healthcare Knowledge Environment'

By focusing on the entire "Healthcare Knowledge Environment" - the dynamic series of tasks and workflows in which caregivers access and apply information to patient-care decisions, Elsevier is transforming CDS technology to offer a higher level of usability. Elsevier knowledge solutions, from drug information and actionable order sets, to process improvement and predictive analysis, help deliver timely and appropriate information to clinicians as they make critical diagnostic and therapeutic decisions throughout their workday.

"The key to Elsevier's Clinical Decision Support is its ability to transform top-quality, static reference information into real-time, dynamic, actionable knowledge that gives the greatest assistance at the point of care - in a hospital, a clinic, at home or anywhere in between," said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer of Elsevier Health Sciences. "Elsevier publishes more than six million pages of medical book and journal content each year. Clinicians have one immediate question: “What should I do next"” The answer is very probably in the pages of medical books and journals; the trick is to get to that answer as rapidly as possible. Advanced CDS tools help healthcare professionals search for the answers they need quickly and easily, and then transform that information into actionable orders, care plans, procedural techniques and medication choices."

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