For Immediate ReleaseContact: Connie Hofmann (215) 521-8511 [email protected]
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Launches Internal Medicine Website Site Launches with the Full Text of the 30th Edition of the Best-Selling Washington Manual
Philadelphia, PA, April 2, 2001 -- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) announces the launch of LWWmedicine.com, (http://www.lwwmedicine.com) an Internet site for healthcare practitioners in internal and family medicine. The site is the company's second comprehensive web-based portal for medical professionals, and advances parent company Wolters Kluwer's strategy to develop sites for professionals and accelerate its migration to the Internet.
LWW has long been recognized as a leader in professional medicine publishing, with best-selling publications such as The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics; Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult; and Primary Care Medicine. LWWmedicine.com now provides health professionals with immediate online access to critical clinical content needed to improve patient care.
LWWmedicine.com offers the full text of the just-released 30th edition of The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. For more than 40 years, The Washington Manual has been the standard of reference in the field for health care professionals. Edited by a team of chief residents at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, this book focuses on the latest standards of therapy and care.
"The story of The Washington Manual is remarkable," said Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, Adolphus Busch Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. "What began as an internal document for the house staff and students at Washington University School of Medicine has become one of the best recognized and most widely read medical texts in the world. The 30th Edition marks a milestone in the history of The Washington Manual, as it enters the electronic age with this web-based version."
In the coming months, many landmark medical texts published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins will be added to the site, including: * Primary Care Medicine(Gorroll) * Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult (Dambro) * Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests (Wallach) * Kelley's Textbook of Internal Medicine (Humes) * Review of Internal Medicine (Schlossberg)* Cleveland Clinic Intensive Review of Internal Medicine (Stoller)
"To date, most online clinical content has either been lengthy reference books or short quick reference summaries," said Richard Winters, Executive Editor at LWW. "LWWmedicine provides a range of quality content from established sources, letting the user select anything from a short answer to a full-length book chapter with reference sources."
The site is enhanced by editorially derived meta data, a sophisticated technology that provides highly focused search results and immediate access to clinically relevant information. Users can access the content in multiple ways, including browsing by table of contents, chapter summary pages, or via the comprehensive search engine. The site offers personalization features, such as personal bookmarking, saved searches, and a profile to capture site links and other professional information. The site will also include monthly updates to most of the texts available online.
LWWmedicine.com is available by individual subscription, or via institutional subscriptions for multiple concurrent users. For more information or to subscribe, visit www.LWWmedicine.com.
LWWmedicine.com is the second of several specialty-oriented portals that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins will launch in the coming year. These portals will include LWW's premier clinical content, frequent updates and other features to provide the health professional with an unparalleled searching experience. In a time when Internet business models change daily, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has adopted a responsible, systematic approach to developing new online product and revenue models, leveraging its historic strength an expert content provider.
Philadelphia-based Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (www.lww.com) is a leading publisher of professional information for physicians, nurses, clinicians and students. LWW provides essential health products in print and electronic formats, offering hundreds of journals online via www.lww.com. LWW is unit of Wolters Kluwer International Health and Science, a leading global provider of authoritative products and services in the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and the sciences.
Reporters interested in free trial access to lwwmedicine.com can request a password via e-mail to [email protected].
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