March 25, 1998
Contact: Claire Thayer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Managed Care On-Line™ secures publishing agreement with Information Resources
Group, Inc.
Modesto, CA - Managed Care On-Line™ has entered into a publishing agreement with Information Resources Group, Inc. to offer RNdex™ for purchase in MCOL’s Managed Care Store on MCOL’s web site.
"We are pleased to offer this extensive electronic index of nursing, case management and managed care journals. Produced by nurses and medical librarians, RNdex has nurse-friendly subject headings, an easy-to-use thesaurus, and abstract for every record", stated Claire Bollier Thayer, MCOL Director of Research and Development.
"The RNdex product is used both at home and in work sites such as hospitals and medical offices, as well as in traditional library and educational settings. It is useful for conducting literature reviews for research, clinical decision-making and supporting professional development", commented Glenn Richardson, President, Information Resources Group, Inc.
The RNdex bibliographic databases offers more than 60,000 citations to articles from the leading 150+ nursing, case management and managed care journals from 1992 to the present. The database has been supplemented with key medical and health care administrative citations selected from the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINEâ and HealthSTAR™ databases.
Information Resources Group, Inc. is based in Southern California. Established in 1992 to develop electronic information products for nurses and healthcare professionals, IRG’s goal has always been to provide valuable information at an affordable price.
MCOL offers informational software and services for those professionally involved with managed care. MCOL business lines include: Managed Care On-Line™, an internet-accessible on-line service dedicated to managed care; Managed Care Store, a one-stop shopping place for managed care informational resources; and Software Development and Services. MCOL is based in Modesto, California with additional offices in Oregon and Southern California.
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