Under the terms of the agreement, Skyscape will offer the Infopoems evidence-based medicine summaries channel to its customer base of more than 575,000 medical professionals
John Wiley and Sons has announced a new agreement with Skyscape, a provider of interactive, intelligent health solutions for desktop and mobile devices, to make Infopoems evidence-based medicine summaries available to Skyscape subscribers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Skyscape will offer the Infopoems channel to its customer base of more than 575,000 medical professionals.
Infopoems will be offered as a stand- alone product, and each subscriber will receive monthly updates containing all the Infopoems content from the previous month.
Updates are delivered to a wide array of mobile devices including personal digital assistants (PDAs), smart phones and cell phones, as well as desktop personal computers.
Wiley acquired Infopoem, a provider of evidence-based medical content and web-based search tools, in October 2005.
The flagship services of Infopoems - Daily Poems and InfoRetriever - form the basis of a medical information management system that improves patient care and increases clinical efficiency.
An acronym for Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters, Poems are summaries of evidence-based medical research filtered from over 100 leading peer-reviewed journals and graded for validity and relevance to patient outcomes.
Approximately one in 40 eligible studies is converted into a Poem and each Poem is reviewed by at least 15 physicians and/or physician editors prior to publication.
"Offering Infopoems in a mobile setting will further enhance the utility of a service designed to provide healthcare professionals with the information they need in their clinical practice," said Andrew Spong, regional manager, healthcare solutions, John Wiley and Sons.
"With the launch of this application in association with Skyscape, Wiley reinforces its commitment to provide quality products to inform clinical decision making and augment the quality of medical advice at the point of care".
This new agreement expands a partnership that has already been established between the two companies.
Since December 2005, Skyscape has provided its subscribers content from the Cochrane Library (published by Wiley), the widely-respected international resource for evidence-based medicine.
"Skyscape is pleased to extend our relationship with Wiley by adding Infopoems0 to our growing portfolio of trusted resources," said Sandeep Shah, president and CEO of Skyscape.
"For more than a decade, Skyscape has helped medical professionals get up-to-the-minute access to accurate information to help them provide better care at lower costs, while saving time and minimizing errors and legal challenges.
"Our user base welcomed Skyscape's introduction of the mobile version of the Cochrane Library from Wiley.
"Now with this new agreement for Infopoems, Skyscape will offer a very timely resource for trusted evidence-based information, further demonstrating our commitment to the physicians and nurses who are searching for practical ways to incorporate evidence-based information into their daily practice."
