Omedix Selects Elsevier's Health Library to Provide Content to Improve Patient Education and Engagement

PHILADELPHIA, October 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

User-friendly solution provides private practice and ambulatory facility customers with trusted healthcare information  

Omedix, a leader in convenient, cost-effective and user-friendly web solutions for medical practices, will integrate Elsevier's Health Library into its patient engagement platform. Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, developed the digital Health Library for patients and consumers featuring accurate, timely, easy-to-understand content on thousands of healthcare topics and issues.

Omedix's private practice and ambulatory facility customer base and their patients will be able to use the Elsevier Health Library, which is designed to accelerate patient engagement through access to relevant content, including symptoms, medications, treatments, conditions, diseases, procedures and tests. As providers move to value-based care, Omedix with the Elsevier Health Library will help its provider customers build patient loyalty that will distinguish their practices in the community.

"After reviewing the options in the market, it was immediately clear that Elsevier's Health Library would offer an incredible breadth of information to our customers and their savvy patients who are engaged in managing their own health and achieving positive health outcomes," said Destinee Mack, Director of Operations and Channel Management, Omedix. "Our customers will benefit from the Elsevier Health Library's depth of information, user-friendly interface and access to thousands of health topics, treatments and medications in English and Spanish."

Using the Health Library, patients can access deep, trusted content that enables personal management of conditions, diseases and medications from the convenience of home. They can also use the portal to search by specific condition or diagnosis like asthma, diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or move through an easy-to-skim, A-to-Z list of healthcare topics. Elsevier Clinical Solutions' Patient Engagement group launched Health Library earlier this year.

"Today's informed healthcare consumers are looking for an enhanced patient experience and the ability to access the same vetted and trusted content as their physicians," said Sonika Mathur, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Patient Engagement, Elsevier Clinical Solutions. "Health Library, the latest component of our Elsevier Patient Engagement suite of solutions, grants healthcare consumers access to the trusted content that they desire and the ability to better manage their conditions, diseases and medications and achievement of lifelong wellness."

For additional information on Elsevier's Health Library, visit http://www.elsevierpatientengagement.com/health-library/.

About Omedix 

Omedix's cloud-based solution is changing the way patients and providers interact, resulting in engaged, loyal and satisfied patients, improved healthcare outcomes, and increased revenues and decreased expenses for providers, hospitals and clinical practices. Omedix specializes in creating an outstanding patient experience for healthcare organizations across the full patient relationship lifecycle, starting from the moment a patient seeks out a new provider, continuing through the patient intake process, and onward to the ongoing doctor-patient relationship. Our goal is to make it seem easy, both for the patient and for our clients.

About Elsevier 

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions - among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and ClinicalKey - and publishes more than 2,500 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and more than 33,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works. Elsevier is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries. http://www.elsevier.com

Media contact 

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Elsevier
+1-917-704-5174
c.capot@elsevier.com

SOURCE Elsevier