Healtheon/WebMD Partners With American College of Surgeons to Offer Scientific American(R) Surgery on WebMD Practice(SM) New Offering Will Enhance Content Offerings and Expand Access to Trusted, Authoritative, Medical Information
PR NEWSWIRE - August 16, 2000 08:30
ATLANTA and CHICAGO, Aug 16, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Healtheon/WebMD Corp. (Nasdaq: HLTH), the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS), a professional medical organization representing over 60,000 surgeons, today announced an agreement to provide Scientific American(R) Surgery, a progressive and continually updated surgery reference, on Healtheon/WebMD's physician portal, WebMD Practice(SM). Scientific American(R) Surgery will enhance the reliable, trusted medical content available on WebMD Practice(SM), which can be found at www.webmd.com.
As part of the new agreement,
-- Via the ACS, Healtheon/WebMD will offer underwritten WebMD Practice(SM)
subscriptions to all Fellows of the ACS and surgical resident
candidates and associates.
-- Healtheon/WebMD will also provide underwritten WebMD Practice(SM)
subscriptions to Scientific American(R) Surgery subscribers.
-- Healtheon/WebMD will Web-enable Scientific American(R) Surgery and
preview it to more than 15,000 attendees at the ACS 86th Clinical
Congress in Chicago in October.
-- Healtheon/WebMD will offer ACS members information on basic Internet
use at the upcoming ACS Clinical Congress.
-- The ACS will offer selected content from the Scientific American(R)
Surgery newsletter on the ACS Web site and in its monthly membership
publication, Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. The ACS
also will promote Scientific American(R) Surgery at its meetings.
"The American College of Surgeons is delighted to have formed this relationship with Healtheon/WebMD because our goal is to provide credible clinical information to surgeons," said Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS, executive director of the American College of Surgeons. "This agreement will help us leverage Healtheon/WebMD's professional portal to provide important clinical information to all our Fellows in general surgery and the surgical subspecialties."
Scientific American(R) Surgery, the only comprehensive surgery reference that the ACS sponsors, is a peer-reviewed and highly illustrated source of surgical information. It is written by more than 150 preeminent surgeons and edited by a team of surgical thought leaders, led by Editorial Chair Douglas W. Wilmore, MD, FACS of Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Scientific American(R) Surgery is based upon a unique system of decision-making algorithms and has thousands of references hot-linked directly to MEDLINE(R).
"This agreement with Healtheon/WebMD is a great opportunity to provide residents and practicing surgeons with the reliable, up-to-date surgical information they have come to trust in a format that is continuously updated," said Douglas W. Wilmore, M.D., FACS, editorial chair of Scientific American(R) Surgery and Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. "By offering Scientific American(R) Surgery on WebMD Practice(SM), surgeons will be able to access comprehensive, up-to-date surgical information at the time they need it."
"Healtheon/WebMD is thrilled to have entered into this partnership with the American College of Surgeons, which is the largest professional medical association that we have entered into a long-term contractual relationship with to date," said Charles Saunders, M.D., chief medical officer of Healtheon/WebMD. "With the addition of Scientific American(R) Surgery to WebMD Practice(SM), we will enrich our offerings of valuable, cutting-edge information and provide healthcare professionals with the resources and services they need to deliver the best patient care."
Scientific American(R) Surgery will join Scientific American(R) Medicine on WebMD Practice(SM) later this year. Scientific American(R) Surgery is part of Healtheon/WebMD's recent acquisition of the professional publishing division assets of Scientific American, Inc., and it is the companion to Scientific American(R) Medicine, which is also owned by Healtheon/WebMD. These information systems will appear online exclusively on WebMD Practice(SM).
Healtheon/WebMD will also continue to publish both print and CD-ROM versions of this continuously updated reference for clinicians. Current subscribers of Scientific American(R) Surgery will continue to receive print and CD-ROM versions, which will refer readers to WebMD Practice(SM), where Scientific American(R) Surgery will be continuously updated and integrated with existing WebMD content. Physicians who subscribe to WebMD Practice(SM) will have unlimited access to Scientific American(R) Surgery as well as to Scientific American(R) Medicine and WebMD's other clinical information, including the breaking news and information that is developed by the WebMD National News Center, Medical Quick Facts, Patient Education and the drug database Clinical Pharmacology(C).
About WebMD Practice(SM)
Healtheon/WebMD's professional portal, WebMD Practice(SM), uses the Internet to provide physicians and their offices with credible, current and comprehensive content, secure communications and transaction services including automating the workflow associated with determining patient eligibility, referring a patient to a specialist, and authorizing treatment. It also automatically links eligibility and authorization information to medical claims submitted electronically. Using the service, a patient's insurance coverage can be quickly verified online and a referral or authorization can be obtained in seconds, rather than days, thus speeding access to care while reducing effort and cost. Unlike other professional medical Web sites, WebMD Practice(SM) is unique in that it carries no advertising.
About Healtheon/WebMD
Healtheon/WebMD is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry. Healtheon/WebMD is using the Internet to facilitate a new system for the delivery of healthcare, resulting in a single, secure environment for all communications and transactions that will enable a more efficient and cost effective healthcare system. Healtheon/WebMD has its corporate headquarters in Atlanta and its technology headquarters in Silicon Valley. For more information visit webmd.com .
Scientific American(R) and Scientific American(R) Surgery are trademarks of Scientific American, Inc., and are used by Healtheon/WebMD Corp. under license from Scientific American, Inc.
About The American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College currently has more than 62,000 members, including more than 3,400 Fellows in other countries, making it the largest organization of surgeons in the world. |
