eMedicine Receives Contract to Provide CME for US Navy Medical Personnel.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers OMAHA Omaha, city, United States Omaha (ō`məhä, –hô), city (1990 pop. 335,795), seat of Douglas co., E Nebr., on the west bank of the Missouri River; inc. 1857. , Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2002 eMedicine.com, Inc., (www.emedicine.com) producer of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base and one of the top online services for health care professionals, announced today that it had received a contract from the Naval Medical Information Management Center to provide the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base and Continuing Medical Education continuing medical education See CME. programs for medical personnel of the US Navy. Under the terms of the agreement, Navy physicians, nurses and allied health professionals will have access to a dedicated edition of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base and thousands of hours of CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). and CE units. Jon Adler, MD, President and Chief Medical Officer of eMedicine said, "We're pleased that the Navy has selected eMedicine as an information and CME resource for Navy medical personnel. Our commitment to high quality and current information will support the mission of Navy Medicine." Added Dennis Carson, Senior Vice-President of eMedicine, "eMedicine's huge collection of on demand CME provides an efficient method for Navy health care professionals to keep up-to-date and meet Continuing Education requirements." The Naval Medical Information Management Center (NMIMC NMIMC Navy Medical Information Management Center ) mission is to provide the information technology support to Navy Medicine's commitment to patient care and Force Health Protection. NMIMC is located on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, also known as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, is considered the flagship of the United States Navy's system of medical centers. in Bethesda, Maryland. eMedicine developed and markets the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, the first medical reference source developed for online use, consisting of peer reviewed clinical review articles for 7,000 diseases. eMedicine is also the largest repository of continuing medical education on the Web, with 40,000 hours available for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and optometrists. The company is privately held with offices in Omaha, Nebraska, Boston, Massachusetts, Syracuse, New York
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