Wolters Kluwer Health Helps Pharmacies Address Consumer Information Needs with Facts & Comparisons® Patient Facts Online

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Aug. 30, 2010 — In response to growing consumer demand for easy and convenient access to comprehensive, user-friendly drug information, Wolters Kluwer Health offers retail pharmacies Facts & Comparisons® Patient Facts Online. The innovative web service integrates easily with any pharmacy website for on-demand delivery of consumer-appropriate, authoritative drug information based upon the company's flagship drug information product, Facts & Comparisons eAnswers.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, is featuring Facts & Comparisons Patient Facts Online in Booth #1529 at the NACDS 2010 Pharmacy & Technology Conference, taking place Aug. 28–31 in San Diego. Facts & Comparisons® eAnswers, Price Rx® and Medi-Span® are also being featured.

"As consumers take a more proactive role in their healthcare, they are increasingly turning to their pharmacists for comprehensive and clear drug information to help them make safe decisions about prescription medications and over-the-counter products," said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. "Facts & Comparisons Patient Facts Online makes it easy and convenient for pharmacists to respond to those demands by providing online access to the industry's most trusted and authoritative drug information resource. It reduces confusion by providing consistent content from a single source and saves time by enabling consumers to quickly and easily find answers to the most common medication questions."

Facts & Comparisons Patient Facts Online delivers convenient online access to comprehensive drug information, including MedFacts Patient Information in English and Spanish, Medication Guides, A to Z Drug Facts Monographs, Drug Interactions and the Drug Identifier Tool. With Patient Facts Online, consumers can view drug monographs, search by drug name, check drug-drug and drug-food/ethanol interactions and identify pills using the drug image and imprint database.

For maximum flexibility, Facts & Comparisons Patient Facts Online is available in two services: Web Service and Hosted Web Service.

With Web Service, the pharmacy's website makes a web service call using .net, Java or PHP. Wolters Kluwer Health provides simple style sheets to apply to HTML and guidelines for adding calls to the pharmacy site. Hosted Web Service allows online access to an administrative site for additional HTML customization of banner, footer and side panels; fonts; and custom buttons.

"Facts & Comparisons Patient Facts Online is the pharmacy's answer to consumer demands for current and comprehensive drug information. It supports safe medication practices and enables fast and efficient reviews of drug monographs and patient information," said Subramanian. "Equally important, because it is delivered via an efficient web service application, it lets pharmacies offer this important value-added service without having to worry about costly manual updates."

About Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA) is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical.

Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company focused on professionals with annual revenues (2009) of €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion), approximately 19,300 employees worldwide and operations in over 40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Visit our website, YouTube or follow @Wolters_Kluwer on Twitter for more information about our market positions, customers, brands, and organization.