Elsevier / CPM Resource Center Expands CPM CarePoints™, Adding Emergency Product Content Collection

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, October 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Expansion of product into the emergency department continues to support the continuum of care with key clinical documentation and evidence-based practice

Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today the availability of CPM CarePoints Emergency™. The product is a new component of the CPM CarePoints™ collection, a pre-built, implementation-ready solution that provides a framework for evidence-based care and documentation tools across clinical domains.

With more than 125 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, CPM CarePoints Emergency is organized through utilization of the CPM Framework™ and is designed to integrate evidence-based content into practice in order to support clinical decision-making within an emergency department setting. The solution contains content for the adult and pediatric population, as guidelines range from abdominal pain to upper extremity injury, while content includes information on triage, patient profile, risk screening, primary and secondary clinical assessment and procedure/intervention summaries.

"CarePoints Emergency strategically serves healthcare organizations and professionals as they manage patients and document processes in the emergency department, all of which are necessary to achieve meaningful care goals," said Diane Hanson, RN, BSM, MM, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CPM. "With this comprehensive solution, healthcare professionals can continue to work towards overall improvement of quality of care, data interoperability and seamless longitudinal care coordination for patients."

CarePoint Emergency can be integrated with other "CarePoints" within the CPM CarePoints solution -inpatient, pediatrics, obstetrics and critical care - to provide a key benefit of a comprehensive, seamless workflow between departments and care venues. When integrated, the overall solution offers clinical decision support, advancing the use of health information technology, making meaningful the risk screening, planning, recording and tracking of recommended care steps and monitoring a patient's condition meaningful.

Other key benefits include:

• Potential reduction in re-admission rates
• Improvement in quality of care and patient safety
• Strategic decision making regarding a patient's admittance
• Seamless transition of care and interoperability
• Support of standardization and consistency of care between departments

For more information about CPM CarePoints Emergency and CPM CarePoints, including purchasing information, visit http://www.cpmrc.com/solutions/cpm-carepoints/

About Elsevier CPM Resource Center

For more than 25 years, Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM) has been offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning and documentation at the point of care.  Based on the CPM Framework™, these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and adoption.  CPM is a business unit of Elsevier, the world's leading provider of science and health information.  For more information, visit http://www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to provide more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com) and Cell (http://www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (http://www.scopus.com), Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (http://www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (http://www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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