Award from Sigma Theta Tau International celebrates the advancement of nursing through creativity in education, practice and research

Grand Rapids, November 15 2011 - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), the leading global provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services announced that Bonnie Wesorick, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), is this year’s recipient of the Edith Moore Copeland Award for Excellence in Creativity. CPMRC is an Elsevier-owned company that has brought healthcare providers together to co-create and sustain the best places to practice and receive care.

“Bonnie is a true visionary and her creative models, conceptual frameworks and strategies have been ahead of their time, providing future direction in healthcare quality improvement,” said Michael Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier Health Sciences. “It’s great to see Bonnie recognized for helping to create the movement toward point of care integration and scope of practice clarity in the clinical setting.”

The Copeland Award is one of six Founder’s awards bestowed by The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and is one of the highest honors bestowed by STTI. The award celebrates the advancement of nursing through creativity in education, practice and research. Award criteria include demonstrating creative activity in nursing education, practice or research, participating in creative activity that serves as a stimulus for research, practice and education; and fostering creativity in people such as colleagues, students, clients and other health care providers.

Bonnie received the award for creating a Clinical Practice Model (CPM) Framework to help guide advancements in nursing. She soon expanded the Framework to include other disciplines and the entire care team at a time in healthcare when hospital organizations were accustomed to working in silos. With the CPM Framework, core beliefs, principles, theories, and healthcare best practices have all been synthesized into concise models that help clinicians and leaders affect sustainable change across the healthcare organization. Hallmarked at the award ceremony was Bonnie’s leadership and vision for bringing the first evidence-based automated clinical documentation system to healthcare designed to serve patients and clinicians. This transformation leads to positive outcomes for patients and their families, caregivers and the healthcare community at large.

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About CPMRC

The CPM Resource Center (CPMRC) offers content, processes, tools and services that support practice advancement, cultural transformation, infusion of evidence-based care, and interdisciplinary integration at the point of care. CPMRC’s evidence-based products and professional services assist healthcare organizations in creating a healthy work culture and interdisciplinary integration using the CPM Framework™ that supports cultural and professional practice for sustainable healthcare transformation. The International Consortium of over nearly 300 rural, community and university settings connects clinicians and leaders to advance clinical scholarship and research. Practice-Education Partnerships bridge the transition from education to practice in schools of Nursing and Allied Health focusing on interprofessional education (IPE) and interdisciplinary collaborative practice. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier. For more information on CPMRC, please visit 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 publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (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 (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (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).

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

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 24, 2011 – 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/

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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 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 (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (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 (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (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).

CPM CarePoints™ prepares organizations now for Stages 2 and 3 of meaningful use through an advanced evidence-based clinical documentation and care planning solution.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – September 12, 2011 – Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare, announced today that it will integrate its evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and documentation solution into the electronic medical record (EMR) system at Medcenter One, a non-profit integrated health system located in central and western North Dakota. CPM CarePoints, a pre-built, ready-to-implement clinical decision support solution, will be optimally designed and deployed within Medcenter One’s McKesson EMR.

“As we fully utilize our EMR system we wanted to ensure that we had high quality, clinical documentation and clinical practice guidelines built right into the system,” said Jan Kamphuis, Medcenter One’s chief nursing officer. “We already have a relationship with CPM, and we knew that evidence-based clinical content organized to support professional practice would be an even greater value to the overall organization if it was integrated into our EHR and available electronically throughout our health system.”

An industry-proven solution that can be integrated into any EHR system, CPM CarePoints provides an all-inclusive framework for implementing evidence-based care and documentation tools for nursing and allied health professionals. CPM CarePoints offers several functions, including automated electronic documentation and tools that make planning, assessing, recording and tracking recommended care steps efficient and evidence-based. Organizations can be assured they are meeting the most current quality standards and regulations to ensure compliance and improve patient outcomes.

“Through use of evidence-based medicine that is integrated seamlessly within the EMR, we will move  Medcenter One closer toward meaningful use of health information technology and meaningful care of patients,” said Diane Hanson, executive vice president and general manager for CPM. “Our solution is designed as an interdisciplinary patient care tool, so clinicians can utilize the applications for care coordination, communication and as a source of care guidance in the scope of clinical responsibility.”

CPM CarePoints can be easily built into any existing EHR system, so hospitals such as Medcenter One are able to work with CPM directly to guarantee the highest quality content and optimal electronic care planning and clinical documentation solution for their organization.

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

About Medcenter One

Medcenter One is a non-profit, integrated health system that consists of a 232-bed hospital in Bismarck, N.D., a multi-specialty clinic, a college of nursing, six primary care clinics, three occupational health clinics, three kidney dialysis centers, four long-term care facilities and a comprehensive group of ancillary health services in western and central North Dakota. Key accreditations and quality awards include: Joint Commission, American College of Surgeons Level II Emergency and Trauma Center and Magnet Recognition Program®.

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 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 (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (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 (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (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).