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Launch of online database showcasing best practice for blood transfusion

The Transfusion Evidence Library – a unique, online database providing centralised, high quality, evidence-based information for transfusion medicine – was launched today by NHS Blood and Transplant, supported by the three other UK blood services.

The specialist database is an electronic library of scientific papers relevant to transfusion medicine and is available to clinicians and researchers from around the world who are interested in blood products, their use and blood alternatives. The library will host systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and economic evaluations. Instead of searching multiple journals to find relevant articles, individuals should be able to search the Transfusion Evidence Library database to find what they need quickly and easily.

The database was developed by the Systematic Review Initiative (SRI), a clinical team based in Oxford, whose objective is to increase the evidence base for the practice of transfusion medicine. The SRI partnered with Evidentia Publishing to create the database to address some of the problems currently experienced when searching for literature about transfusion medicine. Thankfully we maintain the lab in order with blood clean up services for future patients nd staffs health.

Professor Mike Murphy, Clinical Director for Patient Services at NHS Blood and Transplant, said:

“We believe that this database will be a huge asset to many health professionals. By linking to as much of the relevant literature as we can, we have created what is essentially a one stop shop for transfusion medicine information. We hope that this will enable people to search for articles in a smarter way.”

Mark Schregardus, CEO at Evidentia Publishing, said:

“Evidentia Publishing is delighted to partner with NHS Blood and Transplant to develop the Transfusion Evidence Library database, and to bring this unique resource for transfusion medicine professionals to a global audience.“

The database currently holds over 640 systematic reviews, 3285 randomised control trials and 60 economic evaluations and these numbers are set to increase as new information is added on a monthly basis.  The Transfusion Evidence Library can be found at www.transfusionevidencelibrary.com and is free to access for UK blood services and NHS staff. It will be available on subscription for other interested parties.

Buffalo State, the State University of New York (SUNY) Relies on ProQuest Technologies for Discovery

Buffalo State, the largest campus in the State University of New York (SUNY) system will continue to use the Summon discovery service and 360 Link from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, to honor the library’s dedication to proactive and innovative support for research and creativity of Buffalo State students and faculty. Continuing to use the Summon discovery service was a unanimous decision among the library staff, allowing them to connect their users to credible and reliable content from across the breadth of their library’s collections.

“Summon is a great place to start for all researchers. We recommend to both our faculty and our students to use the discovery service as a search engine, not a library database. Early on we realized that this is not just a database, it’s another level of service,” comments Al Riess, Reference and Electronic Database Librarian at Buffalo State.

Built around a single, unified index that returns a single set of results—the Summon service is designed to meet the needs and expectations for what a modern search should be. The Summon service provides a complete and compelling discovery experience for the users at Buffalo State enabling their users to effectively search and navigate across the library’s resources.

Riess continues, “Using Summon makes every researcher’s job easier. It is simple to use and the search engine is so intuitive that not only is the journal article that you’re looking for returned in the first ten results, it is on your screen after only typing in a partial title, without even having to scroll.”

A satisfied customer from the start in 2011, Buffalo State was looking to enhance their offerings to their patrons. Adding Syndetic Solutions™ to the Summon service and 360 Link will provide a complete and compelling experience to discover, evaluate and access their library’s rich resources. Buffalo State noticed immediate success with the Summon service and the number of searches at their library continues to increase every semester. Riess adds, “We don’t want to go anywhere else and we are looking forward to what’s next from ProQuest”.

Oxford University Press launches new journal, National Science Review

Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, National Science Review (NSR).

Under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, NSR is a new journal aimed at reviewing cutting-edge developments across science and technology in China and around the world. Initially published quarterly, the journal will focus on topics of interest to the international science community, including multi-national collaborations, global issues in scientific and technological development, and their impact on society in general.

As China’s first comprehensive science review journal published in English, NSR will link China’s rapidly advancing scientific community with the frontiers of global science and technology for the benefit of the scientific community worldwide. NSR’s goals are to draw international attention to scientific research and achievements in China, provide an overview of progress in frontier sciences worldwide, and promote international exchange and collaboration.

The journal will focus on six major natural science areas in China and across the world. While providing an overview of global science progress in these fields, NSR will also offer in-depth analysis of major scientific developments and science-related policy in China

The journal will feature articles by leading scientists in addition to regular sections, including Perspectives, Research Highlights, and Letters & Commentaries. Each issue will offer reports highlighting a specific scientific field in which China has made notable progress. Each issue will also feature in-depth interviews with high-level science administrators and policy makers from China and abroad and include round-table discussions among prominent scientists about current – and sometimes controversial – science and policy issues.

The journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Chunli Bai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says: “NSR provides the Chinese scientific community with a much-needed channel to present its latest scientific achievements to the international community. With the Chinese government’s increasing support for basic research, China’s rapid progress in science and technology will accelerate, offering great potential for globally significant breakthroughs. In depth coverage of this progress will be published in our journal.”

Tim Barton, Managing Director of Global Academic Publishing at Oxford University Press, said “we are delighted by the opportunity to work on this exciting new publication with such a leading organization in the natural sciences, and look forward to getting this cutting edge research to a global audience.”

New white paper suggests collaborative improvements for discoverability of scholarly content

In a changing academic environment, discoverability of scholarly content demands cooperative efforts across the communications supply chain. A new SAGE white paper, out today, summarizes the current discovery landscape for scholarly communications, advocates for cooperative efforts across the industry, and proposes specific recommendations for discoverability improvement for librarians, publishers, and service providers.

“This white paper draws upon novel insights contributed by16 international experts about the scholarly ecosystem of publisher content, research tools, and library systems. The experts make predictions about new cross-sector partnerships as researcher workflows evolve,” stated lead author Mary Somerville. “Our recommendations advance the common goal of furthering discovery, access, and usage of scholarly publications and creative work.”

Authors Mary Somerville, PhD and Lettie Conrad, MA propose actionable recommendations for all involved in scholarly communications in order to achieve collaborative improvement of discoverability. The recommendations are based on the following four themes:

  • Standards: All sectors should participate in ratified standards to ensure that cooperation is part of business-as-usual routines.
  • Transparency: Standards compliance is critical for successful discovery, and the development, implementation, and enforcement of these standards require open relationships across the industry.
  • Metadata: Quality metadata, observing ratified standards, enables successful discovery of scholarly content, products, and services.
  • Partnerships: Opportunities exist for new discovery innovations across the industry, such as linked open data and cross-publisher discovery tools.

This new white paper, titled “Collaborative Improvements in the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Accomplishments, Aspirations, and Opportunities” is SAGE’s second white paper on discoverability of academic work. An update to the first study, the paper addresses recent accomplishments and new opportunities for reinventing conventions and relationships among libraries, publishers, and service providers. A presentation of the findings will be made next week at the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

“From research methods to quality of content, ease of discovery, and scholarly communication, SAGE is dedicated to supporting all aspects of the research process,” stated Stephen Barr, President of SAGE International. “As the scholarly environment is continuously changing, we are delighted to be releasing a second white paper on the discoverability of scholarly content. We are confident that its findings will be helpful to librarians, researchers, content providers, and publishers alike.”

Thomson Reuters Elevates Web of Science as Its Next Generation Research Discovery Platform

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of information for businesses and professionals, today unveiled its strategy for the next generation Web of Science, the world’s most trusted citation index for the world’s most important scientific and scholarly literature. A new, user-friendly interface, expanded content and convenient open-web links substantially enhance the Web of Science and its position in the global scientific research community. This industry gold standard covers science, social science, and arts & humanities citation indexes, covering the most important citation activity with the core Web of Science and domain specific and regional indexes spanning research for well over 150 years.

“Our analysis shows customers associate most with the Web of Science as the platform of choice to conduct critical scientific research and to make high-value decisions,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Thomson Reuters Scholarly & Scientific Research. “To better serve our growing client base, we are launching the next generation Web of Science as our premier search and discovery platform, and InCites as our comprehensive benchmarking and evaluation platform. These steps demonstrate our commitment to providing our customers with the trusted and authoritative content and tools to make strategic decisions.”

The addition of the SciELO Citation Index, covering Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the Caribbean, exemplifies the content expansion of the core citation databases in Web of Science. The platform also hosts and provides access to the Chinese Science Citation Database and, later this year, will host the Korean Journal Database; these latter two sources bring expanded citation metrics and impactful regional content to the world’s largest and most authoritative citation resource.

The Scholarly & Scientific Research group at Thomson Reuters also announced its mission to make Web of Science content and records easily accessible to researcher end users via links from open-web platforms, such as Google Scholar. This is a significant step toward simplifying the scientific search process for researchers who begin in an open environment.

“Open-web linking, alongside our simplified and powerful user interface, increases the visibility and accessibility of the Web of Science and ultimately the value it delivers to subscribers,” said Chris Burghardt, vice president, Thomson Reuters Scholarly & Scientific Research. “This supports the goal of making Web of Science easily accessible to researchers at all levels of their career and within their existing workflows.”

New open access (OA) functionality was also introduced on the platform. Articles from journals that are entirely OA now have indicators on them for easy identification. Users can also apply search filters to target only open access journals in their searches.

Learn more about Web of Science and InCites, the company’s customized, web-based research evaluation solution that allows users to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers worldwide.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health Launches Nationwide Access to UpToDate Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched nationwide open access to UpToDate®, providing nearly 80,000 physicians and nurses with access to its acclaimed clinical decision support resource.

“The MOH, in line with its Patient First strategy, is working to ensure a higher and more consistent quality of care and better health outcomes, two strategically important goals of the Ministry of Health,” said Dr. Mohammed R. Alyemeni, the Deputy Minister for Planning and Health Economics. “UpToDate helps us realize these goals by equipping all clinicians with ready access to the most current best practices and expert-authored clinical recommendations to make the best decisions for patients.”

 Starting in January of 2014, the five-year national access partnership with Wolters Kluwer Health provides UpToDate to healthcare professionals at over 250 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 100 private hospitals, military hospitals, national guard hospitals, universities, the Saudi Digital Library, as well as all clinics and primary care centres in the Kingdom. 

“The Ministry’s dedication to improving healthcare in Saudi Arabia is strengthened by providing nationwide access to the most current and comprehensive clinical information for treating patients,” said Denise Basow, MD, Vice President and General Manager, UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions. “We look forward to supporting the Saudi Ministry of Health as a trusted source of evidence-based medicine that enables clinicians to answer questions at the point of care.”

Throughout the kingdom, access to trusted, evidence-based medical information covering more than 10,000 clinical topics in over 20 specialties will be available to every Internet user via several methods: the Ministry of Health Portal (http://www.moh.gov.sa), the UpToDate website (http://www.uptodate.com/contents/search), the UpToDate Mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows 8, and directly within hospitals’ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems that support UpToDate integration.

Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, at Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions said, “Working with ministries of health and other major government agencies is an essential part of our mission to improve care everywhere.” Subramanian added, “For an organization that is driven by innovation and customer focus, the national rollout of UpToDate in Saudi Arabia serves as a showcase of how we can partner to leverage web, EMR and mobile access technology on a national scale to help more doctors with clinical decision-making.”

EBSCO Industries President and CEO F. Dixon Brooke Jr. Announces Retirement And Appointment of Successor

After four decades at Elton B. Stephens Co. (EBSCO), President and CEO F. Dixon Brooke Jr. announced his plans to retire at the end of this current fiscal year, June 30, 2014. Brooke joined EBSCO in

1973, and has spent the past eight and a half years serving as President and CEO— only the third President in EBSCO’s 70- year history.

“We owe a great thanks to Dixon for his long service to EBSCO,” said J.T. Stephens, Chairman of the Board. “We greatly appreciate his guidance and the continuing success of the company under his management. We thank Dixon heartily and wish him a well-deserved and enjoyable retirement.”

After a lengthy and thorough succession process, the Board of Directors has selected Tim Collins, President of EBSCO Information Services, to succeed Brooke effective at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, 2014.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as EBSCO’s President,” said Brooke. “It has been challenging, demanding at times, and very rewarding. EBSCO is a great organization, full of wonderful, talented people. We are indeed fortunate to have Tim Collins ready and willing to step up to this new leadership challenge. Tim is an exceptionally accomplished leader with a proven management record marked by success.”

Brooke and Collins will work closely over the next six months to ensure a smooth transition; and during that time, Collins will continue to serve as President of EBSCO’s largest division, EBSCO Information Services. Following retirement, Brooke will continue to serve EBSCO as a member of the Board of Directors.

Collins has 27 years’ experience with EBSCO, beginning in 1987 when EBSCO acquired “Popular Magazine Review,” the company he co-founded with his stepfather, Jerry Seaman. Collins is a member of the EBSCO Founder’s Club, and he has never experienced a year without sales growth. “Tim possesses values consistent with the core values that have made EBSCO successful,” said Brooke. “He is an entrepreneur who manages with a determined outlook. He is a competitor who loves to win. Tim selects, supports, and retains good people. I have no doubt he will succeed in leading EBSCO to new performance highs.”

“I feel honored to have been presented with this opportunity.  I’ve very much enjoyed my time working with many talented and committed people at EBSCO and am excited about being able to work with the entire EBSCO team in the future,” said Collins.  “I am looking forward to working with Dixon over the coming months during the transition period and then working to help EBSCO realize its full potential over the long run.”

ProQuest Solutions Named as Finalists in SIIA Awards

ProQuest today announced four of its content and technology solutions are finalists for the 2014 SIIA CODiE Awards. Representing the information industry’s best products and technologies, the following are among 91 finalists across 26 categories.

·         Best Search Technology Solution:  ProQuest® Dialog®

·         Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution:  ProQuest® ETD Administrator

·         Best General Reference Service:  ProQuest® Statistical Abstracts

·         Best Search Technology Solution:  Summon

“Earning this distinction in the search technology category for two of our flagship products – Dialog and Summon – affirms our innovation in developing solutions that provide superior discovery and access to content,” said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. “We are equally pleased with the recognition earned for ETD Administrator and Statistical Abstracts – two solutions that showcase content depth and accuracy, platform flexibility and features that are relevant to their respective users.”

“The CODiE Awards competition was extremely competitive this year and our finalists set the standard for innovation and quality in the media, publishing and information service markets,” said Kathy Greenler Sexton, Vice President and General Manager for the Content Division at SIIA. “Each and every finalist should be commended for their innovation and market-leading products and services. I look forward to seeing them all at the Information Industry Summit in January.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codies/2014/finalists.asp

 

Semantico and Society of Petroleum Engineers launch OnePetro platform

Semantico and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) are proud to announce the launch of the redesigned OnePetro platform. OnePetro is an online library of journals and technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. It is one of the most comprehensive resources available on upstream oil and gas, with more than 145,000 documents produced by 18 publishing partners.

Semantico has redesigned and re-engineered OnePetro to feature a simpler, more elegant content delivery infrastructure. The new OnePetro platform gives users access to a wide array of information and includes the very latest technologies, including sophisticated search functionality, content enhancements, personalisation tools, multimedia and more.

Key features of OnePetro:

  • More than 145,000 documents.
  • Engaging videos and presentations.
  • Personalisation features that allow users to rate and save articles.
  • Automatic DOI registration through CrossRef.
  • Best-in-class user experience.
  • Delivery of content on all devices from smartphones to large workstations.
  • Ecommerce, with multiple subscription options also available.

The wealth of information in OnePetro is delivered using Semantico’s industry-respected content platform, Scolaris. Scolaris is engineered to manage the complexities of journals, ebooks, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search which allows for rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.

SAMS, Semantico’s renowned access management system has been used to generate greater subscription opportunities for OnePetro. SAMS is the most widely used access management system in its class and integrates seamlessly with Scolaris to control access across users and institutions, as well as providing a host of flexible options for business models and optimal monetisation of content.

“We are delighted to have worked with Semantico on revitalising OnePetro and creating an enhanced user experience for our customers. The improved site will deliver research in an unprecedented manner, alongside improved functionality and increased business opportunities,” said Rebekah Stacha, Senior Manager Technical Publications, SPE.

“We are very proud to add this prestigious and exciting project to our portfolio. SPE is a leading industry publisher and we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with them on this flagship product,” added Colin Caveney, Sales Director, Semantico.

The International Union of Crystallography announces the first issue of a new open access journal: IUCrJ

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is delighted to announce the first issue of a new fully open access journal called IUCrJ.

IUCrJ is a new and exciting open access journal in the field of crystallography, aimed at a wide audience of scientists including biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists. IUCrJ will publish a full range of focused and engaging articles, from papers on all aspects of the sciences and technologies supported by the IUCr via its Commissions, to exciting short commentaries highlighting the background and guiding forces behind some of the most high-profile research currently taking place today.

Editor-in-Chief Professor Samar Hasnain, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK said, “IUCrJ should become the natural home for reporting breakthroughs and ‘full’ science reports rather than simply a structure or how it was determined”.

The launch of IUCrJ coincides with the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) declared by the United Nations to celebrate 100 years of progress following the first Nobel Prize related to crystallography, awarded in 1914 to Max von Laue. The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), working with UNESCO, is proud to be the custodian of the IYCr2014 and has set up plans for major initiatives during the year.

Professor Hasnain went on to describe how, “Lawrence Bragg, who established the basis of X-ray crystallography, shared the Nobel Prize with his father William Bragg in 1915 at the age of 25. This second Nobel Prize related to crystallography was quickly followed a third, awarded to Charles Glover Barkla in 1917. Lawrence Bragg helped create the first international journal dedicated to crystallography, Acta Crystallographica, and worked to establish the IUCr as a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). He was elected by the General Assembly of the first IUCr congress in 1948 as the first President with Max von Laue as the Honorary President. Paul Peter Ewald, who had also played a major role in the establishment of the IUCr, became the founding editor of Acta Crystallographica and remained its Editor until 1959. In the tradition established by Bragg, Laue and Ewald, we are pleased that many of the leaders of our hugely expanded and successful field have volunteered to serve on the editorial and advisory boards of IUCrJ, bringing together all of the expertise that only the IUCr can call upon”.

For more information or to submit an article, go to http://www.iucrj.org/

Plum™ Analytics Becomes Part of EBSCO Information Services

In a deal that brings together the leading subscription services, database, e-book and discovery provider with the leading provider of alternative research metrics, EBSCO Information Services has acquired Plum™Analytics. Plum Analytics is the first altmetrics provider to move beyond metrics about articles and track all research output in any form, providing a powerful tool that augments traditional metrics.

Plum Analytics is the provider of PlumX™, a product that delivers a more complete picture of research and answers questions about research impact for anyone including researchers, librarians, administrators, and funders. PlumX, named Library Journal’s most ambitious database in 2013, gathers metrics across five categories—usage, mentions, captures, social media and citations. Metrics are gathered around what Plum Analytics calls artifacts—more than just the journal articles that a researcher authors. Artifacts include:

  • Articles
  • blog posts
  • book chapters
  • books
  • cases
  • clinical trials
  • conference papers
  • datasets
  • figures
  • grants
  • interviews
  • letters
  • media
  • patents
  • posters
  • presentations
  • source code
  • theses / dissertations
  • videos
  • webpages

The information collected is presented in a variety of ways including data visualizations, dashboards, and widgets. Plum Analytics is the only company synthesizing this metrics data for custom analysis for each institution and for publishers.

Plum Analytics will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBSCO Information Services and will continue to operate as Plum Analytics with the same products and management.

Plum Analytics was founded by Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman. Michalek, the co-founder and CEO, has deep experience developing technology for big data and is the former Director of Technology for Summon®. She is also the former founder and Chief Technologist of EchoFactor, a spin-off division of Infonautics. Andrea founded Topular LLC, a consulting practice where she served as an interim technology executive for software companies and helped many startups successfully launch their products. Buschman, co-founder and chief product officer, and a librarian himself who was once named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker, was the Program Manager for Microsoft Academic Search and Book Search and is the former Director of Product Management for Summon. Buschman also worked with libraries on training and marketing as Client Services Manager for the scholarly society publisher IEEE.

Michalek, Buschman and the rest of the Plum Analytics team are veterans of the library and research communities and will continue to use that expertise to create new ways of evaluating the big data generated when people interact with research. Michalek says working with EBSCO brings together two companies that work with the research community. “Teaming up with the leading content and analysis provider for libraries and scholarly publishers in order to move to a new era of scholarly impact metrics helps us take the power of PlumX to the next level and realize new ways of assessing and analyzing research. With EBSCO’s deep content assets and usage data, this is a natural enhancement to the data that PlumX collects around research.”

EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins says Plum Analytics is leading the way in a new field that has ramifications for a variety of stakeholders. “PlumX is able to provide a more timely and more thorough picture of the impact of research to researchers, institutions and publishers. EBSCO is very excited to be entering what is a new product area for us. We look forward to working with Andrea, Michael, and their team.”

Buschman sees a bright future for research and researchers, “As institutions compete for grant dollars, newer ways to analyze research will become essential to understanding the impact a researcher is having. PlumX allows libraries, research institutions, funding agencies and publishers to better support researchers and to comprehend the scope of research being conducted more rapidly and on a wider scale.”

Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Nursing Procedures Product to Support Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has expanded use of Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills to include a broad range of hospital-based clinicians including nurses, respiratory therapists and others.  These expanded capabilities can help hospitals better support interdisciplinary collaboration.  The product — the leading online procedures solution for clinicians at the bedside — also has been renamed “Lippincott Procedures,” a move that reflects an already growing use among non-nursing clinicians.

The enhancements expand the product so that both nursing and non-nursing clinicians can use it to access and maintain all of their institutionally mandated procedures.  In addition, a new set of evidence-based procedures designed for respiratory therapists has been added — the first new discipline in addition to nursing.

As the industry continues to focus on improving outcomes, coordinating care and communication across disciplines is critical to patient care goals.  Lippincott Procedures supports this effort by being more user-friendly and capable of encouraging collaboration and better communication.  Now, the hospital can use the product as its core procedures manual across disciplines and many groups of clinicians from respiratory therapists to physical and occupational therapists, to nutritionists and pharmacists.

“Health System customers have already started expanding the use of Lippincott Procedures across departments and disciplines,” said Carolyn Dalton, Senior Digital Product Manager, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education.  “Nurses know and love the product but we didn’t want its name to be a limiting factor for others who can also benefit from it.”

Ushering in a new era of broader use, a total of 75 evidence-based, step-by-step procedures on Respiratory Therapy — designed specifically for respiratory therapists — have been added to the database and are now available online.  Customers can search and browse the entire database of procedures across Nursing and Respiratory Therapy or can search either discipline separately.  The product also introduces customization features that allow customers to add additional disciplines and Standards content within the product, enabling their inter-disciplinary team users to access all of their institutional procedure and standard information from one point-of-care solution.  Each discipline can be searched independently and can be set up with default search parameters by department.

The new functionality and customization features, according to Dalton, are going to help customers maximize the use of the product.  As hospitals move towards centralizing their processes, having the step-by-step procedure information all in one place will increase the efficiency of the clinical staff.

Dalton also said it has improved the product’s design and user-interface while retaining all of the features and functionality of the previous version.  This foundation enables Wolters Kluwer Health to expand the product further into other disciplines, which it plans to do in the future.

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