Minneapolis, MN (July 1, 2010) - Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Kentucky Clinic has selected its Facts & Comparisons® Clinical eAnswers as a dynamic and unbiased drug information tool and resource within its on-site pharmacy.
Facts & Comparisons Clinical eAnswers is an interactive online tool that provides healthcare professionals with access to the most up-to-date drug information tailored to their unique needs, enabling better therapeutic decisions in less time. It provides 100% unbiased and objective drug facts and unmatched comparative tables, for credible, trusted answers.
Facts & Comparisons Clinical eAnswers addresses the key pain points of workflow efficiency and patient safety by providing the tools and information needed to support drug dispensing activities. These include patient safety screenings for Drug Utilization Review and drug reference information, which result in a decrease in drug dispensing errors. Additionally, it includes clinical calculators, Trissel's IV-Chek™, 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Cancer Chemotherapy Manual, Review of Natural Products, a Patient-specific Drug and Disease Screening Tool, plus a Drug Identifier Tool.
Located in Lexington, KY, Kentucky Clinic is the primary outpatient clinic for UK HealthCare, located just adjacent to UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. The Kentucky Clinic is designed to provide total health care service within one location. With more than 400 physicians and dentists in over two dozen specialties, it offers a wide range of primary and specialty care plus on-site X-ray facilities, clinical laboratories and a pharmacy.
“UK Healthcare is committed to highest-quality and safest patient care – they’ve even gone so far as to launch their own Center for Enterprise Quality and Safety,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are honored that Kentucky Clinic has chosen to use Facts & Comparisons Clinical eAnswers as their drug information resource to further support their focus on quality patient therapy and care.”
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA) is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical.
Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer’s leading, information-enabled tools and solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world.
Wolters Kluwer has 2009 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion), employs approximately 19,300 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
About UK HealthCare
Established in 1957, UK HealthCare consists of the medical, nursing, health sciences, public health, dental and pharmacy patient care activities of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, and in several off-site locations.
UK HealthCare is the patient care enterprise of University of Kentucky Medical Center. It consists of the 473-bed UK Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, UK HealthCare East, Kentucky Clinics, Markey Cancer Center, Gill Heart Institute, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, and the clinical activities of the UK Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Sciences, Public Health and Nursing.