eMedicine Releases New User Interface for Institutional Customers.

OMAHA, Neb. -- eMedicine.com, Inc., has released a newly designed user interface for institutional subscribers. This is the first major upgrade to the service and includes a new design, better clustering of related tools, a new color scheme, and easier-to-read type fonts. Navigation is easier, and improvements to the search tools have been added.

The new interface, at www.imedicine.com, gives users the ability to search by SNOMED codes and includes a new "action box" to consolidate useful tools, such as Medline searching and printing. New features include a Guideline Wizard, allowing direct linking to relevant guidelines from within a topic, and new Resource Centers, with one-click access to content and multimedia on important topics, such as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive agents (CBRNE). Drug recalls and alerts are now shown more prominently.

To create this new user interface, eMedicine consulted with clinicians, medical informatics specialists, librarians, and Web design experts. Jon Adler, MD, president and chief medical officer of eMedicine, commented: "Our new user interface was a collaborative effort between eMedicine and our customers. We listened closely to our users to create the best user experience possible."

The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base provides comprehensive medical and drug information for over 6,500 conditions. All content is peer reviewed and continually updated. More than 10,000 authors and editors have contributed to this system, making it the world's largest original, peer-reviewed knowledge base of its kind.

About eMedicine

eMedicine.com, Inc., owns and markets the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, the first peer-reviewed medical reference developed specifically for online and handheld use. It consists of over 6,500 clinical review monographs, 700 patient education articles, an extensive MultiMedia Library, drug tables, and clinical tools. The company's product offerings include the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, Institutional Edition, for hospitals, universities, and libraries; eMedicine SELECT, integrated enterprise content solutions for hospital applications; eMedicine.com, one of the most heavily trafficked medical Web services for professionals; eMedicineHealth.com, a lifestyle, wellness, and disease information resource for consumers; and CME Plus, custom CME development and distribution for the pharmaceutical industry. eMedicine has the largest repository of original CME/CE on the Web, with 27,000 hours available to physicians, nurses, and optometrists. The company is privately held, with offices in Omaha, NE; Boston, MA; Syracuse, NY; Lafayette, NJ; San Rafael, CA; and St. Louis, MO.