LWW and Ovid enter collaboration with Joanna Briggs Institute

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy, has announced an exclusive partnership with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a recognized global leader in evidence-based healthcare resources based at the University of Adelaide, Australia, as part of an expansion of the nursing, allied health, and medical content delivered to customers of products in the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals and Ovid brands.

Under this agreement, LWW and Ovid will deliver JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) to its global clinical point-of-care services market immediately, with an expansion into all markets beginning in October 2012. JBI COnNECT+ is JBI's web portal for content and user tools designed to assist health care providers to access, appraise, and use evidence-based information in clinical decision-making processes.

In addition, LWW and Ovid are now the exclusive global channels for online access to an expanded version of JBI's PACEsetterS publication, which brings the latest advances in evidence-based practice information, audit and implementation for healthcare providers and consumers, as well as the latest news from JBI collaborating entities to JBI members and the entire healthcare community.

This is the first step in a deeper long-term collaboration between JBI, LWW, and Ovid focusing on opportunities to further develop and integrate JBI content and tools into multiple Wolters Kluwer Health destinations, including Lippincott's NursingCenter.com, LWW online journals, and institutionally via OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid.

"LWW and Ovid are delighted to be partnering with JBI," said Karen Abramson, President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. "The Joanna Briggs Institute is the acknowledged leader in translational research in clinical care and therapeutics, including the creation of systematic reviews, evidence summaries and the tools needed to embed these into healthcare service delivery processes. Both of our organizations are committed to offering evidence-based, best practice resources to nurses, physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide to assist them in providing health care, advice and assistance at point of contact with their patients or clients. We look forward to making these invaluable resources accessible to even more healthcare providers in the global healthcare community, delivered when they want it, in the format they want it in."

"After an extensive review of JBI's current and future positioning, we are delighted to be partnering with Wolters Kluwer Health," said Professor Alan Pearson, Executive Director, The Joanna Briggs Institute and Professor of Evidence Based Healthcare at the University of Adelaide. "JBI's mission has always included the improvement of patient outcomes by ensuring that healthcare professionals have access at point-of-care to the best available international evidence. We have major plans for the addition of new, previously unpublished resources in PACEsetterS and a partnership with Wolters Kluwer Health helps us to reach more healthcare professionals than ever before and to strengthen and accelerate the growth of core content and tools delivered to our current and future members."

SOURCE Wolters Kluwer Health