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10/25/1999 Seattle, WA - Practice Partner, a leader in the development and marketing of innovative medical practice management products, today announced a distribution agreement with MD Consult. Under this agreement Practice Partner will market MD Consult's innovative web-based clinical information service to its customers. In accordance with this agreement, the two companies will also collaborate to integrate MD Consult's service into Practice Partner's web-enabled electronic medical record (EMR) software, Practice Partner Patient Records.
The distribution agreement will bring a comprehensive range of full-text clinical resources to the desktops of physician practices and hospitals. Practice Partner's customers will be able to access these services directly from within Practice Partner Patient Records. Future collaborative development will give physicians one-click access to trusted clinical content on any topic found in a patient's chart.
The MD Consult service integrates more than 35 leading medical books, full-text articles from over 45 renowned medical journals, MEDLINE and other databases, complete prescribing information for over 30,000 medications, peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient education handouts, personalized daily clinical updates, and online Category One continuing medical education programs (CME). The integration of these services will further increase the power of Practice Partner's Practice Partner software offers complete integration of practice management and clinical information and has helped thousands of practices migrate towards a paperless practice environment.
"MD Consult is excited to align with an organization that shares our primary objective of delivering practical and trusted resources to physicians at the point of care," says Jerry Freeland, President of MD Consult. "Our relationship with Practice Partner will create a powerful and efficient tool for physicians as they deliver care to their patients."
"We are looking forward to bringing MD Consult's comprehensive reference tools to our customers. Practitioners today demand up-to-date and reliable medical information to provide quality ambulatory care," said Practice Partner President Andrew Ury, M.D. "MD Consult addresses this need by brining together some of the most reputable and credible medical publishers in the industry and delivering high-value content in an innovative and interactive medium."
Seattle-based Practice Partner is a leader in the development and marketing of innovative Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management products for medical offices and large health care enterprises. Practice Partner, founded in 1983 by Dr. Andrew Ury to provide comprehensive software solutions for office-based physicians, is one of the pioneers in electronic medical records software. More than 1200 offices use Practice Partner software, and more than 700 of them use Practice Partner Patient Records. With over a decade of experience with the EMR (Practice Partner released its first version of Practice Partner Patient Records in 1987), Practice Partner has created software products that are finely honed to the real world needs of physicians, nurses, and office professionals.
Based in St. Louis, MD Consult is a joint venture of the world's three leading English language medical publishers: W.B. Saunders, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, FL.; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer U.S., Chicago, IL; and Mosby, Inc., also a division of Harcourt Brace & Company. MD Consult features unlimited access to the most comprehensive and trusted collection of brand-name clinical reference and current awareness information available on the Internet. The MD Consult service is currently licensed by more than 300 hospitals, medical schools, health systems and other health care organizations, providing access to more than 70,000 physicians and more than half of the nation's academic medical centers
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