OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2004--eMedicine.com, Inc., today announced a new Co-Marketing Agreement with GE Healthcare to provide a co-branded GE Healthcare edition of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base to customers of GE Healthcare's Centricity(R) Information Technologies product lines. Centricity Information Technologies are part of GE's integrated approach to optimizing workflow throughout the healthcare enterprise. The Centricity suite of products includes workflow automation, clinical documentation, decision support, and quality assurance tools used by thousands of customers worldwide. Users of GE's Centricity Information Systems will have one-click access to the Clinical Knowledge Base. The GE Healthcare edition will debut in September 2004.
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.
"We are very impressed with the quality and depth of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base," said Don Woodlock, general manager of Acute Care Business for GE Healthcare. "This is a significant product enhancement for our customers."
Jon Adler, MD, president and chief medical officer of eMedicine, commented: "eMedicine and Centricity Information Solutions are a great fit and will be instrumental in improving physician satisfaction and patient safety. We're pleased to be partnered with GE Healthcare."
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