Wolters Kluwer Health and Amirsys join forces

Wolters Kluwer Health and Amirsys, a provider of healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy, is now offering the Amirsys Imaging Reference Center and nearly 60 Amirsys ebooks via the OvidSP medical research platform.

The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center blends thousands of high-quality, representative images and relevant diagnosis and clinical text contributed by thousands of imaging experts, enabling clinicians to quickly make well-informed image-based treatment decisions. It will be available to hospitals, residency programmes, medical schools, and other healthcare institutions globally as an annual subscription or as a single, one-time purchase on OvidSP.

The reference centre includes more than 70,000 CT scans, X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, full-colour illustrations, and other images. More than 4,000 common, classical diagnoses as well as clinical text supported by over 40,000 journal references provide critical clinical context to the images, helping users to order and review imaging tests and studies and diagnose patients based on radiological images.

'This collaboration with Amirsys provides our OvidSP global user base with a unique tool to form critical clinical perspectives on diagnostic images in support of patient-centered care,' said Andrew Richardson, vice president business development Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research.

'The addition of Amirsys on Ovid reinforces our aggregation strategy to provide researchers, practitioners and students with complementary, premier medical, clinical resources easily accessible in one solution.'