CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM Watson
Health (NYSE: IBM) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO)
today announced a strategic collaboration aimed towards
enhancing clinical decision support (CDS) and operations for
healthcare providers and health systems. The companies are
combining their respective solution suites – DynaMed®
and IBM® Micromedex® with Watson™ – into
a single, high-value global solution called "DynaMed and Micromedex
with Watson." The combined solution suite will be designed to bring
together drug and disease content, into a single source for
evidence-based insights to help inform clinical decisions.
DynaMed provides peer-reviewed clinical content, including
systematic literature reviews in 28 specialties for comprehensive
disease topics, health conditions, and abnormal findings to highly
focused topics on evaluation, differential diagnosis, and
management. The content undergoes a rigorous, seven-step process,
giving clinicians access to current, evidence-based diagnostic and
therapeutic recommendations. IBM Micromedex is one of the largest
online reference databases for medication information. It is used
by more than 4,500 hospitals and health systems worldwide to
support decision-making in medication therapy management, disease
and condition management, toxicology, alternative medicine and
patient education.
"Research shows that healthcare provider confidence in clinical
decision support comes from knowing the evidence-based
methodologies that helped build the content
foundation1," said Anil Jain, Vice President, Chief
Health Officer, IBM Watson Health. "When clinicians are confident
that their clinical decision support is drawing recommendations
from accurate and timely information, they are more likely to
use the technology to support their care
decisions.2"
IBM Micromedex with Watson is designed to use artificial
intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to bypass
keyword searches in favor of a more conversational approach to
searching drug content. DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson will be designed to provide clinicians direct access to
drug and disease content at the point-of-care to support clinical
decision making.
"The synergy of our world class, evidence-based content is
expected to drive efficiencies for more healthcare systems using
data-driven insights for decision making," said Betsy Jones, Executive Vice President, EBSCO
Clinical Decisions. "Built on the latest cloud-based technology, we
will harness world class content from
DynaMed and IBM Micromedex onto a seamless and
personalized solution. A terrific alternative for the care
team."
"When it comes to clinical decision support, content is king.
Nearly nine out of 10 physicians in the US currently implement
electronic health record technology3" said Todd Nolen, General Manager, IBM Micromedex
Solutions, IBM Watson Health. "We believe DynaMed and Micromedex
with Watson can deliver value and innovation to healthcare
organizations, to help enable rapid access to high-quality medical
evidence that is essential for clinicians as they work to provide
safe and effective patient care within their clinical
workflow."
DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson is expected to be
available for general adoption in April, 2020.4 IBM
Watson Health and EBSCO Information Services will also continue to
sell the IBM Micromedex with Watson and DynaMed solution suites
separately in order to offer flexible options to help meet
customers' needs.
Please visit www.dynamedex.com to learn more about the combined
solution, schedule a live demo with the team of professionals, or
to register for the April 9 webinar,
Better Together: DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson.
About IBM Watson Health
IBM Watson Health is a data,
analytics, and technology partner for the health industry.
Supported by the innovation of IBM and intelligence of Watson, we
are committed to helping build smarter health ecosystems. Through
the combination of our deep industry expertise in health, data and
analytics, actionable insights, and reputation for security and
trust, Watson Health is working together with its clients and
partners to help them achieve simpler processes, better care
insights, faster breakthroughs, and improved experiences for people
around the world. Learn more at ibm.com/watson/health.
About EBSCO's Health Resources
EBSCO Information
Services (EBSCO) is a leading provider of clinical decision support
solutions, medical research information and healthcare business
intelligence for the healthcare industry. EBSCO users include
professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship
products include DynaMed®, Dynamic
Health™, clinical e-books and
e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™,
licensed databases (such
as CINAHL® Complete, MEDLINE® Complete) plus EBSCONET®.
EBSCO's health databases are powered by
EBSCOhost®, the research platform favored by
libraries around the world.
IBM Media Contact
Carolyn
Castel
857337-0601
carolyn.castel@ibm.com
EBSCO Media Contact
Jessica
Holmes
Communications Director
978-356-6500 ext. 3485
jmholmes@ebsco.com
1Khairat S, Marc D, Crosby W, Al Sanousi A. Reasons
For Physicians Not Adopting Clinical Decision Support Systems:
Critical Analysis. JMIR Med Inform. 2018;6(2):e24.
Published 2018 Apr 18. doi:10.2196/medinform.8912
2Khairat S, Marc D, Crosby W, Al Sanousi A. Reasons For
Physicians Not Adopting Clinical Decision Support Systems: Critical
Analysis. JMIR Med Inform. 2018;6(2):e24. Published
2018 Apr 18. doi:10.2196/medinform.8912
3Jamoom E, Yang N. Table of Electronic Health Record
Adoption and Use among Office-based Physicians in the U.S., by
State: 2015 National Electronic Health Records Survey. 2016. From:
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology. 'Office-based Physician Electronic Health Record
Adoption,' Health IT Quick-Stat #50.
dashboard.healthit.gov/quickstats/pages/physician-ehr-adoption-trends.php.
January 2019. Accessed on
February 28, 2020.
4All information being released represents IBM's current
intent, is subject to change or withdrawal, and represents only
goals and objectives.
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