Medical students and faculty across all of U.S. News & World Report’s top-rated medical schools now have one-click access to full-text article content via subscriptions and Open Access
VANCOUVER, Canada, February 12, 2019 – QxMD Software Inc., a digital learning technology company that makes it easier for clinicians and researchers to discover the latest evidence and decision support tools for use in clinical practice, today announced that the company’s Read by QxMD app had reached 100% integration with the top-100 medical schools for research according to U.S. News’ 2019 rankings. The integration enables students and faculty from Harvard Medical School, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and others, to navigate from their personalized scholarly literature feeds inside the READ by QxMD mobile medical app directly to full-text content available via institutional subscriptions and Open Access.
According to the US News website, US News surveyed the 144 medical schools accredited in 2017 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the 33 schools of osteopathic medicine accredited in 2017 by the American Osteopathic Association. Of those 177 schools, 124 responded and provided the data needed to calculate the rankings based on the indicators used in the medical school research model.
“With the mission of supporting better decisions at the point-of-care, QxMD is committed to removing the friction that commonly exists for accessing scholarly content that has the potential to improve healthcare and save lives,” QxMD CEO and Medical Director Daniel Schwartz, MD, FRCPC. “By integrating with user authentication systems, QxMD is able to identify authorized patrons from hospitals and healthcare systems, and save them time accessing full-text content by automatically routing them to licensed information resources.”
Powered by a sophisticated personalization engine, millions of clinicians and researchers from more than 1,800 institutions rely on Read by QxMD to stay up-to-date with medical and scientific research, read outstanding topic reviews, and monitor PubMed and journal table of contents (TOC) feeds. QxMD offers a free Basic package for libraries and hospitals plus Gold and Platinum packages that include advanced administrator analytics, integrations, and expanded user communication capabilities.
To sign up for a Read by QxMD account, visit https://qxmd.com/getread today. To learn more about Read by QxMD institutional versions, go to https://institutions.readbyqxmd.com/read-institutional-edition/.
About QxMD
QxMD™ is a digital learning technology company that helps healthcare professionals (HCPs) to advance clinical practice with the evidence-based research and decision support tools that matter most. The company’s HCP content engagement platform QxMD Pathways comprises a library of trusted apps that provide millions of members with fast access to full-text research, continuing medical education (CME), and up-to-date tools that drive disease recognition and therapy optimization. Powered by a sophisticated personalization engine, the platform aggregates PubMed feeds, journal table of contents (TOCs), 400+ diagnostic tools, micro-learning CME courses & more. QxMD also serves other healthcare constituents such as hospitals, libraries, scholarly publishers, and nearly 50% of the world’s top-25 pharmaceutical companies.
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