Elsevier buys Eclipsys’ clinical knowledge resource
- 11 January 2008
Clinical management software specialists Eclipsys has sold its Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPM Resource Center) business to Netherlands-based Elsevier, publishers of international scientific, technical and health information products and services, in a deal worth €17.4m ($25m).
CPM Resource Center is a provider of evidence-based clinical content and professional services designed to help transform healthcare, initially acquired by Eclipsys in 2004 and integrated with their Sunrise Knowledge-based Charting solution.
The sale of the CPM Resource Center business to Elsevier closed on December 19, 2007. The business sold includes CPM Resource Center’s proprietary clinical practice guidelines and related intellectual property.
Elsevier Health Science’s chief executive officer, Brian Nairn, said: “Elsevier is committed to helping our healthcare customers improve outcomes in the high priority area of patient care and safety.
“To achieve measurable improvements, healthcare organisations need accurate, evidence- based content that can be used by nurses and all care team members to improve decision making, reduce care variability, and support care documentation.”
Eclipsys say they sold the resource as part of its strategy to expand and enhance content integration in their Sunrise Charting solution and their Sunrise Clinical Manager solution.
Eclipsys president and chief executive officer, Andrew Eckert, said: “We are committed to advancing Knowledge-Based Charting and other Eclipsys solutions that harness the power of evidence-based content.
“We will now focus even more strongly on the continued development of our tools that integrate clinical content and workflow practices into our software and processes to deliver easy-to-use solutions that help clinicians improve patient-care outcomes. We feel that CPM Resource Center’s professionals can provide expanded value to our clients and others as part of the larger Elsevier team.”
The clinical content embedded within Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting will continue to be enhanced through an ongoing strategic partnership between Eclipsys and Elsevier.
Eclipsys employees involved in the CPM Resource Center business are joining Elsevier as a result of the transaction. Eclipsys will continue to include CPM Resource Center content in its Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting solution, in exchange for license fees payable to Elsevier.
In addition, Elsevier will take over responsibility for maintenance and consulting services related to the CPM Resource Center content, so Eclipsys clients will have continuity in their relationships with the CPM Resource Center professionals who perform those services.
“In some ways, this is a return to the collaborative strategic alliance that Eclipsys and CPM Resource Center had in place before we acquired the company,” Eckert said.
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