WebMD

Ovid Technologies provides electronic medical, scientific and academic research information solutions to academic, medical, corporate professionals and students. Its software suite provides access to more than 1,200 journals, 160 books and 300 databases. Ovid is used across the globe by librarians, researchers, clinicians and students from leading colleges and universities; medical schools; academic research libraries and library consortia; hospitals and healthcare systems; pharmaceutical and other corporate entities; HMOs; and clinical practices. In North America alone, Ovid is used by 93% of medical libraries, 97% of teaching hospitals and 87% of United States hospitals with more than 200 beds, as well as the top 30 pharmaceutical companies. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. WK Health is a unit of Wolters Kluwer nv, a multinational information services company.

WebMD Health is one of the leading providers of health information services to consumers, physicians, health care professionals, employers and health plans. Through its public online portals, WebMD enables health-involved consumers and clinically active physicians to readily access health care information relevant to the specific areas of interest and specialty. Through its private online portals, WebMD provides an integrated platform for employers and health plans to enable their employees and plan to members make more informed benefit, treatment and provider decisions. WebMD Health is a subsidiary of Emdeon Corporation. It trades on NASDAQ under the symbol WBMD. The company is headquartered in New York.