15 Major U.S. Hospitals Offer Leading Clinical Content to Doctors Through Web With MD Consult.ST. LOUIS--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 25, 1998--MD Consult announced today that 15 leading hospitals and medical centers across the nation now provide comprehensive clinical information to their physicians and medical professionals via the MD Consult Internet service. MD Consult also is available to individuals via its Web site at http://www.mdconsult.com. The service features the most comprehensive collection of brand-name clinical reference and current awareness information from the world's most respected medical publishers and societies. By signing site licenses with MD Consult, the 15 medical organizations provide more than 10,000 physicians and other health care professionals with online access to leading medical reference books, journals, drug information, patient education handouts, personalized updates and continuing medical education continuing medical education See CME. credit. The 15 hospitals and medical organizations are: -- Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic (formally known as the Cleveland Clinic Foundation) is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Cleveland Clinic was established in 1921 by four physicians for the purpose of providing patient care, research, and medical Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; -- Contra Costa Regional Medical Center,Martinez, Calif.; -- Peter C. & Pat Cook Health Sciences Research & Education Institute, Grand Rapids, Mich.; -- Greater Dayton Health Information Network, Dayton, Ohio; -- Nova Southeastern University History Originally named Nova University of Advanced Technology,[7] the university was chartered by the state of Florida in 1964[8][9] as a graduate institution in the physical and social sciences. , Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; -- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine osteopathic medicine n. See osteopathy. , Philadelphia, Pa.; -- Presbyterian Healthcare/Nova Health, Charlotte, N.C.; -- Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence are an order of Roman Catholic sisters founded in 1843 by Mother Emilie Gamelin. They are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and have missions in nations all over the world, including El Salvador, the Philippines, and the United States. Health System, Portland, Ore.; -- Thomas Jefferson University It began as Jefferson Medical College in 1824. On July 1, 1969 the institution officially became Thomas Jefferson University. The university is made up of three colleges:
With an enrollment of approximately 167 students per class, USU School of Medicine is located in Bethesda, Maryland on the , Bethesda, Md.; -- University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. Medical Center at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn.; -- Vanderbilt University Eskind Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. Library, Nashville, Tenn.; -- Pfizer Inc., Groton, Conn.; -- King/Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif. "The fact that 15 of the most prestigious medical centers in the country now make MD Consult available to their medical professionals validates the need for and the value of name-brand clinical resources online," said Jerry Freeland, president of MD Consult, L.L.C., and 30-year veteran of the medical reference publishing industry. "While there is a glut of free medical information on the Internet, physicians recognize it can be hard to find, it is not always reliable and it is often quite limited in scope. Our subscribers find MD Consult a welcome change." More on MD Consult MD Consult simplifies the way physicians find and use clinical information to help them answer clinical questions and keep them up-to-date efficiently. The service includes unlimited access to: -- 36 leading medical reference books; -- The full-text articles of 47 premier medical journals; -- Prescription information for more than 30,000 medications; -- More than 500 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines clinical practice guidelines Clinical policies, practice guidelines, practice parameters, practice policies Medtalk Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and Pt decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. See Psychology. ; -- Customizable patient education handouts covering more than 6,000 topics; -- Personalized daily summaries of important articles and announcements in clinical medicine; -- A physician's review of medicine in the lay press; -- More than 300 modules of category 1 CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). credit. A free trial of MD Consult is available to physicians at http://www.mdconsult.com. Individual subscriptions are currently available for $199 annually or $19.95 per month. Physicians or organizations interested in MD Consult may call toll-free 1-800-207-4977 or email to info@mdconsult.com. Based in St. Louis, MD Consult, L.L.C. is a joint venture of three of the world's leading English language medical publishers: Philadelphia-based Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Publishers, a division of Wolters Kluwer U.S., Chicago; St. Louis-based Mosby-Year Book, Inc., a division of The Times Mirror Company, Los Angeles; and Philadelphia-based W.B. Saunders, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, Fla. MD Consult, 11701 Borman Drive, Suite 300, St. Louis, MO, 63146, 1-800-207-4977. http://www.mdconsult.com/.
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