EBSCO Information Services Announces Clinical Decisions™ Brand
~ Suite of Solutions Designed to Improve Patient-Centered Outcomes, Increase Patient Engagement and Support Value-Based Care ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — Dec. 10, 2020 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced Clinical Decisions™ as the new brand for its growing suite of health care solutions focused on improving patient-centered outcomes. EBSCO is a leading provider of clinical decision support, shared decision making, and medical research solutions, helping to improve patient care by providing health care professionals with clinical evidence at the point of care. Bringing clinical resources and services together under the Clinical Decisions brand emphasizes the company’s focus on enhancing patient care through standardized and consistent application of evidence-based methodologies.

Informed treatment decisions and engaged patients lead to higher satisfaction and reduced costs. By providing trusted, evidence-based decision support, EBSCO Clinical Decisions aims to support a value-based care model with a holistic suite of products.

The Clinical Decisions suite from EBSCO includes the following solutions:

DynaMed®, EBSCO’s flagship clinical decision support tool which provides the most current, accurate, actionable answers to questions at the point of care
DynaMed® and Micromedex® with Watson™, a single solution through a partnership between EBSCO and IBM, which combines curated disease information with top evidence-based drug content
Dynamic Health™, a resource supporting evidence-based nursing and allied health best practices, essential competency development and the policy and procedure process for the highest quality decision support
DynaMed® Shared Decisions™, a robust collection of shared decision-making tools that enable patients and providers to have meaningful and informed discussions, leading to higher patient satisfaction and improved outcomes
Isabel, a diagnosis decision support tool that aims to broaden a differential diagnosis and reduce clinical uncertainty
The Clinical Decisions suite of products all work with an underlying set of operating services making implementation, maintenance and interoperability with the EHR and analytics reporting consistent for a full view of the care team’s decision points to help reduce variation in care.

EBSCO’s Executive Vice President for Clinical Decisions, Betsy Jones, says that by offering an array of diverse clinical decision tools, the company is focused on making a deeper impact on patient care. “EBSCO is committed to supporting evidence-based health care and enhancing the relationships between patients and their health care providers. With Clinical Decisions, we look to leverage the deep expertise of our team to provide the answers that health care providers need — when, where and how they need it. On the cusp of unveiling additional resources and services, and knowing the work we have put into our consistent approach to evidence across our editorial and product suite, our evolution to Clinical Decisions is hitting maturity and comes together under a united brand.”

For more information on EBSCO’s Clinical Decisions, visit www.clinicaldecisions.com.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the preeminent provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. EBSCO’s Clinical Decisions suite of products are designed to improve patient care by providing healthcare professionals with the most current, evidence-based answers to clinical questions as they arise at the point of care. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family owned company since 1944. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com

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For more information, please contact:
Jessica Holmes
Communications Director
978-356-6500 x3485
jmholmes@ebsco.com

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium) has added Southern Teller Public Library District, Colorado to their consortium. They will be using Koha for their ILS and Aspen Discovery for their catalog.

ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 38,000 plus holdings from Athena and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The Southern Teller Public Library District catalog can be viewed at

https://catalog.aspencat.info/

Southern Teller Public Library District is made up of
Franklin Ferguson Memorial Library in Cripple Creek, Co and Victor Public Library in Victor, Co. The mission of the library is to support lifelong learning by anticipating and responding to educational and community needs for information, to encourage a desire to read, and enrich the quality of life in our community.

Read more at: https://steller.colibraries.org/about/

About CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium)
CLiC is an infrastructure for libraries throughout Colorado. Vision: Helping libraries achieve greatness in their communities. Mission: Connecting. Energizing. Inspiring. Services for libraries throughout Colorado.

Core Values:
-Deliver friendly service
-Seek opportunities for collaboration
-Support growth and discovery
-Celebrate successes
-Save money for libraries
-Blend work & play to create fun

Read more at https://www.clicweb.org/about-clic/who-we-are/

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

About Koha
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org.

About Aspen Discovery
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR) and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. For more information about Aspen please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944