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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 ), a division of Reed Elsevier, has completed the acquisition of Physicians Decisions, Ltd. (London; New York), a privately-held medical information technology company. No terms of the deal were given. A company funded with $4.5 million from private investors and investment firm Think Ventures, Physicians Decisions' primary asset is "PDxMD" (pdxmed.com), an online medical decision support utility created to "meet the clinical information needs of primary care physicians at the point and time of a patient encounter," Elsevier said. The product is "not a database of guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. and articles," the company said, but a "knowledge base with completely original evidence-based clinical information." "PDxMD" was officially launched in October and will be commercially available beginning in March 2002 for local networks, PC and handheld platforms as well as on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Elsevier Health Science division ceo Brian Nairn said that "in conjunction with MDConsult, PDxMD moves us further towards our goal of making professionals more active participants in the application of technology towards patient care. |
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