MedPage Today
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MedPage Today is an online medical news service for physicians and healthcare professionals and is based out of Little Falls, New Jersey
. The site provides breaking medical news, professional medical analysis and continuing medical education
(CME) credit for reading articles and answering a short series of questions. MedPage Today partners with the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine, Office of CME, to peer review its physician-targeted medical news stories.
(ACCME). Coverage includes scientific journal articles, medical meetings and other sources of medical news, including Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health
and U.S. Food and Drug Administration press briefings. Credit from CME post tests are automatically tracked on the MedPage Today website.
Inc., mednews Plus and Skyscape, Inc. to provide medical news coverage and CME accreditation.
Health News section. In mid-2006, MedPage Today focused strictly on the healthcare professional market. In February 2008, MedPage Today broadcasted live video and on-demand coverage from the press conferences of the American Stroke Association's 2008 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, and MedPage Today will continue to provide this feature, available only on their site. In June 2008, the company added a "60-Second Video Update" news broadcast that runs every weekday at 1 p.m. EST.
Little Falls, New Jersey
Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the township population was 10,855. It is located about from New York City....
. The site provides breaking medical news, professional medical analysis and continuing medical education
Continuing medical education
Continuing medical education refers to a specific form of continuing education that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or...
(CME) credit for reading articles and answering a short series of questions. MedPage Today partners with the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
School of Medicine, Office of CME, to peer review its physician-targeted medical news stories.
CME
MedPage Today co-develops online continuing medical education programs with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education (OCME), which is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical EducationAccreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education sets and enforces standards in physician continuing education within the United States...
(ACCME). Coverage includes scientific journal articles, medical meetings and other sources of medical news, including Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
and U.S. Food and Drug Administration press briefings. Credit from CME post tests are automatically tracked on the MedPage Today website.
Partners
In addition to MedPage Today's alliance with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the site is partnered with the groups CE Medicus, EpocratesEpocrates
Epocrates, Inc. is an American company based in San Mateo, California that makes various mobile health software applications under the "epocrates" name, mostly for health care providers, providing them reference information about drugs and diseases, and diagnostic tools.-Products:Epocrates is a...
Inc., mednews Plus and Skyscape, Inc. to provide medical news coverage and CME accreditation.
History
MedPage Today was founded in 2004 by CEO Robert Stern. In March 2005, the site began providing original health content to CNN.com. MedPage Today stories were a regular part of the CNN.com Health section for the next 15 months. The site also wrote a weekly Journal wrapup for CNN.com. At around the same time, MedPage Today also provided contextual medical news stories to the MSNBC.comMsnbc.com
msnbc.com is a news website owned and operated as a joint venture by NBCUniversal and Microsoft.In addition to original content from its news staff, msnbc.com is the news website for the NBC News family, with content from the cable television news channel MSNBC, NBC shows such as Today, NBC Nightly...
Health News section. In mid-2006, MedPage Today focused strictly on the healthcare professional market. In February 2008, MedPage Today broadcasted live video and on-demand coverage from the press conferences of the American Stroke Association's 2008 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, and MedPage Today will continue to provide this feature, available only on their site. In June 2008, the company added a "60-Second Video Update" news broadcast that runs every weekday at 1 p.m. EST.