McGraw-Hill Professional Launches AccessMedicine Services on
All-New Platform Designed to Improve Customer Engagement and Deliver
Next Generation Medical Education
New York, NY – January 16, 2014–McGraw-Hill Professional
announced today the launch of its suite of AccessMedicine services on an
all-new platform which will improve user functionality and
revolutionize how students and doctors use medical information and
education.
As demands on medical students, residents, and practitioners continue to
increase, institutions and individuals require solutions which provide
time-tested content when and where they need it at the point of care.
The new AccessMedicine platform launch features transformative
technology changes that include breakthrough mobile responsive design
for on-the-go access, a faster and more personalized user interface, and
cutting edge search functionality to arm the medical student and
professional with even greater capabilities to make better clinical
decisions, gain greater insights, and achieve better outcomes.
Partnering with Silverchair Information Systems and its powerful SCM6
platform, AccessMedicine customers worldwide will now benefit from the
following next-generation enhancements and features:
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Responsive
Mobile Design – Pages automatically adjust to the end-user device so
health professionals and medical students have an optimal viewing
experience no matter what device they use.
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Enhanced
Custom Curriculum for Rotation Management – Faculty can access sample
curricula or build a curriculum customized to their institution by
pulling resources from all Access subscriptions to provide tools for
remediation, ease rotation management, and improve the learner
experience.
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Powerful
Search – A new search algorithm offers better filtering options across
all Access subscriptions to discover new content, use the Custom
Curriculum feature, and set up alerts with a My Access account
The content foundation of AccessMedicine services includes hundreds of
thousands of pages of semantically tagged content from the world’s
leading medical textbooks including Harrison’s Principles of Internal
Medicine, Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, Tintinalli’s Emergency
Medicine, and Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, tens of
thousands of images and procedural videos, interactive self-assessment,
and curriculum workflow tools. The new technology platform provides
users with even faster and more effective access to unprecedented
content and information depth in their specialty.
Also new to the platform through a partnership with RelayHealth is more
than 7000 downloadable patient education monographs in both English and
Spanish allowing doctors to provide “patient friendly” medical
information to the patient at the point of care. In all, the new
platform covers eight of McGraw-Hill Professional’s award-winning
healthcare services. In addition to AccessMedicine, the new platform
launch includes: AccessAnesthesiology, AccessEmergencyMedicine,
AccessPediatrics, AccessPharmacy, AccessPhysiotherapy, AccessSurgery, as
well as the Online Metabolic and Molecular Basis of Inherited Diseases
database (OMMBID).
“The extensive redesign and unification of our Access products provide
us with better ways to integrate and deliver critical content to respond
to the rapid-fire changes in the medical world and improve health
outcomes,” says Scott Grillo, Vice President and Group Publisher of
McGraw-Hill Professional. “These changes were made in collaboration
with customer focus groups, beta testing feedback, and our advisory
boards of medical experts. We listened to our customers and invested
aggressively in technology to satisfy their evolving needs.”