Debuting in January 1996, this unique information update service now reaches approximately 300,000 healthcare professionals through site licenses sold to medical societies, health care institutions, and health care corporations.
Survey after survey indicates health care professionals' number one information need is to stay up to date with the literature, while their primary problem is information overload. The Web has only exacerbated the amount of information inundating health care professionals.
MedInfoNOW has been designed to address this principal information need and problem of health care professionals.
The service provides updates of two world-class databases, Doody’s database of books and software and the Medline® database of journal article citations and abstracts. Doody’s database is the Web’s most comprehensive database of book and software titles in the health sciences. Medline® is the best-known and most well-established database of the medical journal literature.
Users are able to establish personal profiles indicating their specialty areas of interest in the book literature and their topical areas of interest in the journal literature. Personal profiles determine the content of each user's Weekly Literature Update, sent by e-mail and also incorporated into a personal web page at the corporate sponsor's MedInfoNOW site.
The Weekly Literature Update provides live links to the new book and journal article content posted at the Web site. At the Web site, users can search the entire database of 70,000 in-print book and software titles, obtain price and availability information about titles they are interested in, and order desired books and software from two leading Internet booksellers. Users can also e-mail information about any title in the database directly to colleagues.
The Web site also provides users with access to the last 52 weeks of article citations added to the Medline® database, searchable by highly specific topics, by publication date or timeframe, by type or article, or by journal. In addition, when users are reading the abstract of an article, they are one link away from reaching a gateway to obtain the online version of the article. The popular "e-mail a colleague" feature allows users to e-mail an article's citation and abstract to a colleague.
For complete information about MedInfoNOW, refer to the write up in the "Products and Services" section of this web site by clicking here.