New McGraw-Hill Online Service Delivers Immediate Answers for Physicians and Medical Students

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, unveiled the new Harrison's Online version 3.0, providing clinicians, students, and information managers the immediate, effective and important answers they need in their daily work. Building on the preeminent industry standard with the content of the new 16th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Harrison's Online version 3.0 (http://www.harrisonsonline.com/) adds several new features and functions that enhance the online experience for medical professionals and students in the lab, clinic, and library.

"The latest Harrison's Online enhancements embrace McGraw-Hill's commitment to providing faster, easier access to even more information from the world's most widely used and respected medical resource," said Keith Fox, president of McGraw-Hill Professional. "We are proud to help physicians, students and other healthcare professionals continue to make better, more informed medical decisions; stay up-to-date with the latest clinical data and research breakthroughs and continue their learning with unparalleled self- assessment and re-certification tools."

Specifically, Harrison's Online meets the demands of medical professionals who are short on time and require fast, effective searches. Harrison's search capabilities have been improved to increase both speed and accuracy, including a greater ability to deliver exact topic hits and related topics of interest.

To meet the mobile needs of today's professionals, Harrison's Online offers content downloads to PDA devices, including daily updates that are highlighted in the new user interface. As a result, doctors, students, and interns on the move have instant access to Harrison's content wherever they are.

In addition, Version 3.0 offers access to more content than ever before through enhancements to the AccessMedicine library. The Library enables users to link to contents from 23 other McGraw-Hill medical brands and connect to an additional 14,000 pages of data across the basic sciences and the full spectrum of internal medicine. In addition, Harrison's Online subscribers can earn Category 1 CME credits by listening to its Grand Round Lectures and passing a quiz based on content located on the Harrison's Online site.

Launched in 1998, Harrison's Online was the first dynamic online book to include daily updates. Since then it has grown to provide more than just the full contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, including self- assessment tools, an emergency medicine photo gallery, and an up-to-date drug database. Harrison's Online serves more than 2,000 customers in hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions around the world.

Harrison's Online is part of McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine, the premier web resource for medical reference information. AccessMedicine's core content consists of internationally recognized reference works in internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, and basic and clinical sciences. These include the Lange educational library of 19 basic science and clinical reference texts, The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, Hurst's The Heart, and Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment. AccessMedicine also provides daily news updates, changes in clinical practice guidelines, current drug information, self assessment tools, commentaries and audio lectures.

For more information, visit http://www.harrisonsonline.com/ for Harrison's Online and http://www.accessmedicine.com/ for AccessMedicine.

About McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

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SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Professional

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