ePhysician Partners With Facts and Comparisons -- Most Widely Used Drug Content Provider.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 19, 2000 ePhysician First to Provide Integrated Electronic Prescribing and Drug Information in a Secure Handheld Solution ePhysician(TM), the first company to improve the experience of practicing medicine and the quality of patient care by combining wireless, secure, handheld technology and the Internet, today announced an exclusive partnership with Facts and Comparisons(R), the healthcare profession's most widely used and trusted source of drug information. More than 200,000 healthcare professionals across the U.S. already depend on the information from Facts and Comparisons' publications, including their flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Drug Facts and Comparisons(R). ePhysician will distribute Facts and Comparisons' clinical information on a prescribing handheld device. This information, with more than 3,000 drugs captured, represents the most comprehensive prescribing information available on a handheld device today. The partnership makes ePhysician the first healthcare company to enable doctors to both prescribe pre·scribe v. To give directions, either orally or in writing, for the preparation and administration of a remedy to be used in the treatment of a disease. electronically and access comprehensive drug information from the same mobile handheld device at the point-of-care. "For physicians, Drug Facts and Comparisons is the premier provider of content," said Dr. Stuart Weisman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of ePhysician. "This partnership allows ePhysician to provide doctors with trustworthy, comprehensive and reliable drug information while electronically prescribing medication for a patient." Drug Facts and Comparisons, recommended by state pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. boards across the U.S., is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as drug information that is accurate, comparative, comprehensive, authoritative, timely and unbiased. Now physicians will have access to this content through both ePhysician's eDR drug reference and ePhysician's ePad prescribing service. Both solutions will have the added benefit of real-time updates. "Facts and Comparisons chose to work with ePhysician because they are the most technologically advanced wireless electronic prescribing service on the market today," said Steven K. Hebel, R.Ph., president and CEO of Facts and Comparisons. "ePhysician's wireless secure handheld electronic prescribing handheld electronic prescribing Therapeutics A format for prescribing drugs in which the prescribing physician keys in Pt demographics and a script, which is then sent via the internet to the pharmacy technology is the ideal vehicle for delivering our content so that healthcare professionals can provide the best patient care possible." With Facts and Comparisons' content integrated into the ePhysician handheld applications, healthcare professionals can search for a drug by generic, trade name or therapeutic class and get information on drug indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reactions adverse reactions, n.pl unfavorable reactions resulting from administration of a local anesthetic; responsible factors include the drug used, concentration, and route of administration. . As a result, they can make more informed prescription choices for their patients, reducing the likelihood of medical errors. The service will be available as a stand alone product, eDR "powered by Facts and Comparisons," and in combination with ePad, the wireless electronic prescribing service in late fall and can be accessed at the ePhysician website, http://www.ephysician.com. The stand alone Facts and Comparisons version, PalmFacts "powered by ePhysician" will also be available at http://www.factsandcomparisons.com About Facts and Comparisons Facts and Comparisons is the most trusted provider of current, accurate and unbiased drug information for healthcare professionals. For more than 50 years, healthcare professionals have relied on Drug Facts and Comparisons(R) as their first-line drug information source. To meet evolving healthcare demands for electronic clinical drug information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , Facts and Comparisons provides its drug information library via CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , Internet and intranet applications and integratable databases -- in addition to the bound publications and updated loose-leaf references that have been the accepted standard for many years. Facts and Comparisons, is a 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. International Health Science company. About ePhysician ePhysician is the first company to provide physicians with point-of-care tools using a secure wireless connection to the Internet via a handheld device. Through this device, healthcare professionals can access a suite of ePhysician services. With ePad and eDR, physicians can prescribe medication, schedule patients and view allergy allergy, hypersensitive reaction of the body tissues of certain individuals to certain substances that, in similar amounts and circumstances, are innocuous to other persons. Allergens, or allergy-causing substances, can be airborne substances (e.g. , drug coverage and critical patient information anytime, anywhere. Soon, using eLab, eCharge and eTalk, physicians will be able to order and receive lab results, capture patient charges and diagnoses and dictate TO DICTATE. To pronounce word for word what is destined to be at the same time written by another. Merlin Rep. mot Suggestion, p. 5 00; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 410. notes and reports all through the same ePhysician handheld device. Dr. Stuart Weisman, a practicing physician, founded ePhysician in July 1998 to improve the experience of practicing medicine while also improving patient care. Based in Mountain View, Calif., ePhysician is funded by Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon (www.benchmarkcapital.com) and Sierra Ventures (www.sierraventures.com). For further information, please visit www.ephysician.com. Note to Editors: ePhysician, ePad, eDR, eTalk, eLab and eCharge are trademarks of ePhysician. All other trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective owners. |
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