Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Elsevier Announces iCONSULT to be Offered as Part of SOAPware Electronic Medical Record
Partnership Puts Integrated Evidence-Based Point of Care Content Directly Into Electronic Medical Record to Improve Quality and Consistency of Decision-Making
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, September 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elsevier, a world-leading medical publisher, today announced it has partnered with SOAPware, a leader in providing electronic medical records software for over 10 years with over 30,000 users and with more medical clinic installs than any other EHR in the U.S. . The partnership will allow Elsevier's iCONSULT clinical decision support content to be offered as a Clinical Knowledge Module to its SOAPware v5 (liger) EHR users.
"Elsevier's iCONSULT information will enable us to deliver a fantastic value-added offering. This Clinical Knowledge Module will enable our customers to have evidence-based, clinical information and medical reference information at their fingertips from our SOAPware electronic health record. This will enable the physician to provide better health care by promoting best clinical practices, improving consistency and quality of decision-making; and ultimately increasing the quality of care," say David Powell, chief executive, SOAPware.
For the physician, the Clinical Knowledge Module will include two components, the first, integrated evidence-based point of care content, powered by FIRST Consult, is continuously updated to offer information on evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of disease categories to generate specific clinical decision support with the physician's workflow. The integrated medical referential content, powered by MD Consult, allows users to seamlessly search and access clinical information and included respected reference books, full-text articles from professional journals, practice guidelines and much more.Subscribe to Posts [Atom]