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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 26, 2007
Elsevier Announces Clinical Decision Support Partnership with SSIMED, LLC
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, USA, February 26, 2007 – Elsevier, the world’s largest medical publisher, today announced it has partnered with SSIMED, a leading EHR vendor and provider of physician software and services. The partnership will allow Elsevier’s clinical decision support content to be offered via SSIMED’s EMRge™ electronic health record application.
“With Clinical Decision Support from Elsevier we are able to deliver relevant clinical decision support content organized around the clinical workflow using patient information directly from SSIMED’s EMRge™,” says Frank Perrotta Jr., executive vice president and CIO of SSIMED. “Our valued customers can now seamlessly access the latest evidence-based clinical information and medical reference information from Elsevier, enabling them to provide better health care by promoting best clinical practices, improving consistency and quality of decision-making; and ultimately increasing the quality of care.”
SSIMED will provide two offerings from Elsevier’s Clinical Decision Support content. 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. Secondly, SSIMED will offer 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.
More information can be found at www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com or at booth 3945 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 25 – March 1, 2007
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases, and online reference works.
Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
About SSIMED, LLC
SSIMED’s software and services provide thousands of physicians with the flexible tools needed to manage today’s complex medical practices. Offering Electronic Health Records (EHR), practice management software, ePrescribing, and revenue cycle management services, SSIMED consistently provides their clients with state-of-the-art solutions and world-class service. For more information about SSIMED visit www.ssimed.com or call 1.800.276.6992.
CONTACT
Mike Smith, Elsevier
mike.smith@elsevier.com
+1 314-453-5070
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