HARCOURT BUYS OUTSTANDING INTEREST IN MD CONSULT.Harcourt Harcourt may refer to: People with the surname Harcourt:
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British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the determination of the structure of DNA. (Philadelphia, PA), a division of Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. . No Terms of the deal, which will make Harcourt the sole owner of MD Consult, were given. MD Consult is a Web-based clinical information service that provides access to five million pages of clinical content, including full-text clinical content from a range of medical information sources. The company says it has over 120,000 physician and related healthcare professional subscribers. It claims to have site licenses with more than 350 health systems, hospitals and other health care organizations, as well as 70% of the nation's medical schools. Users have access to over 50 major medical information sources, including such content providers as Medline, references, books and journals, all arranged by database, including "AIDS-link," "HealthStar," "CancerLink" and "Physician's GenRx." Subscribers also receive news and updates via a profiled news service. MD Consult was launched in early 1995 as a partnership among Harcourt, Mosby-Year Book, then a division of Times Mirror, and Lippincott. Harcourt acquired Mosby, and its one-third share of MD Consult, in 1998. Harcourt Scientific, Technical and Medical Group president Peter Hoenigsberg said that "we look forward to ambitiously investing in and growing the range of value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. available through MD Consult." He said that Harcourt has embarked on "an ambitious program" to provide medical professionals with specialty-specific information services See Information Systems. through the Web, "a logical extension of the valuable MD Consult franchise." Wolters Kluwer said it decided to sell its interest in order to focus its resources on its Ovid Technologies' (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) online health and science information services. As part of the sale, Ovid will gain electronic access to "key clinical publications and information" published by Harcourt. |
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