Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - April 11, 2013 - In 2013, healthcare providers across the globe continue to wrestle with reconciling rising demand, falling budgets, increasing costs and heightening expectations, while individual physicians and medical students must keep on top of advances in technologies, improvements in treatments, and the development and launch of new drugs.

Frost & Sullivan’s research and coverage across the healthcare sector shows that administrators, hospitals, physicians and, indeed, patients are increasingly looking to innovative technology-based solutions and systems that allow them to address the seemingly mutually exclusive challenges of reducing mid- to long-term costs, while simultaneously improving the quality of patient care.

It is against this background that Frost & Sullivan examined the role of technology in clinical decision support and, in particular, reviewed Elsevier’s ClinicalKey solution.

Commenting on the analysis, Frost & Sullivan Connected Health Program Manager Sujith Eramangalath explained that “there are currently a range of solutions, from e-books to search engines, that are available in the market but each only offers a partial solution, compromising either on the depth, breadth and reliability of information which is available or the speed and ease with which it can be retrieved.”

Elsevier launched a search engine that is combined with a database of medical content, ClinicalKey, which aims to bridge this gap and leverage new semantic search technologies and the company’s experience in developing clinical content to align itself directly with clinicians’ workflows.

“Our research shows,” continued Eramangalath, “that ClinicalKey has the content (both Elsevier-developed and third-party sourced) and functionalities to fulfil this aim and that the solution has been very well received by its early adopters since its launch in April 2012. As ClinicalKey continues to gain traction, there is an opportunity for the platform to make a tangible contribution to improving the quality of healthcare through the provision of reliable, timely and current medical information at the point of care.”

For more information on the analysis, or to consult the full version of the White Paper titled “The Introduction and Impact of Clinical Key, Elsevier’s Clinical Insight Engine,” and for further details on Frost & Sullivan’s coverage of the clinical decision support and broader healthcare markets, please contact Carrie Low, Corporate Communications, at [email protected]

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