EBSCO Information Services has hired Elizabeth Jones as Vice President of Medical Product Management and Chief Content Officer. She comes to EBSCO from the American Medical Association where she led the AMA Publishing Group, which includes JAMA.

It is vital for doctors to be informed about published studies so they can give patients care that is supported by the most recent evidence, but keeping up with up with all that information, and then incorporating it can be challenging. Jones will combine her editorial experience with the medical expertise that has created point-of-care tools like DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center to expand what is being done to help healthcare providers incorporate evidence-based medical information into the way they treat their patients as quickly as possible. Currently, the average time for research to be put into practice has been reported to be 17 years.

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Elizabeth Jones Joins EBSCO Information Services as Vice President, Medical Product Management and Chief Content Officer
~ Former AMA Publisher Brings Healthcare Publishing Expertise
to EBSCO Health and DynaMed Editorial Operations ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — August 20, 2013 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), provider of point-of-care decision support tools, has announced the hiring of Elizabeth Jones as Vice President of Medical Product Management and Chief Content Officer. In her new role Jones will oversee the EBSCO Health Medical Product Management department in addition to managing the Medical Editorial Teams of clinical reference tools such as DynaMed™ and CINAHL®.

Prior to joining EBSCO, Jones held several senior level leadership roles in healthcare publishing. Most recently Jones served as Senior Vice President and Publisher at the American Medical Association, where she led and managed the AMA Publishing Group, including JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association together with the nine JAMA specialty journals) and American Medical News. Jones spearheaded the transformation of the peer reviewed journals to the JAMA Network, harnessing the collective power of the individual journals under one branded platform, better integrating the community of authors, reviewers and readers. Before working for the AMA, Jones was the Executive Vice President and General Manager at Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW.

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool that is updated daily and provides doctors and other healthcare providers with clinically organized summaries at the point of care. The creators of CINAHL, the gold standard for nursing and allied health research, also created Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s point-of-care resource for nurses providing reference materials for research and for use with patients, continuing education for nurses and opportunities to strengthen nursing skills.

EBSCO’s Executive Vice President of Product Management Stratton Lloyd says Jones brings with her an indispensible array of knowledge to EBSCO’s increasingly expanding health product line. “Betsy is a clinical information powerhouse. Her content expertise and industry knowledge will play an important part in the expansion of EBSCO Health services such as DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center and help EBSCO as we focus on additional content, improved access and new clinical areas.”

Jones says the move to EBSCO comes at a time when the company is making a concerted effort to expand the content it provides and her expertise is right in line with that initiative. “EBSCO is ready to take its expertise in reference content and its decades of experience in search and change how healthcare providers incorporate evidence-based medical information into the way they treat their patients. The success EBSCO has had in introducing point-of-care resources and the impact these resources have had on patient care is just beginning and I am looking forward to being a part of these efforts to better inform doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers.”

Several studies have shown that DynaMed provides the most useful information to healthcare professionals at the point of care. DynaMed ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and was also rated highest it its category by healthcare providers in a report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. DynaMed also was also shown to be the most current point-of-care reference tool in a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)

More information about EBSCO Health’s clinical decision support solutions is available at https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/ and http://www.ebscohost.com/nursing.

About EBSCO Health
EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Social Work Reference Center™ ,Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES®, PsycINFO®.. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com, or contact: information@ebsco.com.
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