Elsevier Announces the Launch of MD Consult Mobile
11 Novembro 2009 - 2:29PM
PR Newswire (US)
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- -
Clinicians Benefit From Easy Access to the Authoritative
Information Doctors Trust Elsevier, the world's leading publisher
of scientific, technical, and medical information products and
services, announced today that physicians of any specialty will be
able to access an entire library of quality medical content on
their mobile devices with the launch of MD Consult Mobile. Because
physicians frequently travel between medical facilities and
hospitals and often are not able to use a computer as they do
rounds or perform other tasks away from an office, having access to
evidence-based clinical content at any time or in any location is
becoming increasingly essential. Optimized for iPhones, BlackBerrys
and other smartphone devices, MD Consult Mobile allows clinicians
to consult the same MD Consult content available from a laptop or
desktop computer. "Being able to get to the kind of content I would
normally only be able to see if I was sitting at a computer is a
big advantage as I go through my day," said Neil W. Rawlins, MD, a
Board Certified OB-GYN and Medical Information Officer for Kadlec
Clinic in the state of Washington. "Hunting for an unoccupied
computer in any medical facility is frustrating, so having access
to MD Consult from the palm of my hand is a great leap forward for
clinical decision support." MD Consult Mobile provides a new
interface that is optimized for a small screen, making an extensive
collection of books, journal articles, Clinics, and guidelines
easily accessed and read from a mobile device's web browser. MD
Consult Mobile users can browse directly to content via Quick
Reference links that cover a growing list of medical topics with
pre-organized resources; search books, Clinics,
journals/MEDLINE(R), and practice guidelines; view full-text
chapters and journal articles plus images of all searchable
content; and email content links, to themselves for later review,
or to colleagues. "Physicians require comprehensive access to
current information as close to the point of patient care as
possible," said Randy Charles, Managing Director, Global Clinical
Reference, Elsevier. "The introduction of MD Consult Mobile is a
direct result of the feedback of loyal MD Consult customers. Being
able to consult this evidence-based clinical content from a mobile
device will help our users find efficient clinical answers and make
better patient treatment decisions no matter where they happen to
be." MD Consult Mobile is available at no additional charge to
individual subscribers, as well as end-users at institutions with
site license subscriptions. "Everyone acquainted with MD Consult
will recognize its authoritative sources, such as Cecil Medicine,
Braunwald's Heart Disease, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, Nelson
Textbook of Pediatrics, the Harriet Lane Handbook, Ferri's Clinical
Advisor 2010, the Clinics of North America, leading clinical
journals, practice guidelines from professional medical societies,
and many more," added Charles. "Now subscribers can access that
content by simply opening their phone's Internet browser and typing
in m.mdconsult.com." For more information about MD Consult or MD
Consult Mobile, visit http://www.mdconsult.com/. About MD Consult
MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one
integrated online reference tool to help physicians efficiently
find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better
treatment decisions. A service of Elsevier, a world leader in
health care and medical science publishing, MD Consult combines
leading medical reference books, medical journals, and The Clinics
of North America with patient education handouts, drug information,
medical news, and more! MD Consult is trusted by more than 1,900
healthcare organizations, including 95% of U.S. medical schools.
Physicians log over 1.5 million searches every month to find
clinical answers and make better treatment decisions. About
Elsevier Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific,
technical and medical information products and services. The
company works in partnership with the global science and health
communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The
Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/) and Cell (http://www.cell.com/),
and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works
from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), Scopus
(http://www.scopus.com/), Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com/), MD
Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/) and Nursing Consult
(http://www.nursingconsult.com/), which enhance the productivity of
science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite
(http://www.scival.com/) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review
(http://www.medai.com/), which help research and health care
institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively. A
global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.com/) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The
company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC
(http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and
information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC
and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext
Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York
Stock Exchange). Tom Reller Director of Corp. Relations, Elsevier
+1-212-462-1912 DATASOURCE: Elsevier CONTACT: Tom Reller, Director
of Corp. Relations, Elsevier, +1-212-462-1912,
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