CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Silverchair Science+Communications, a leading developer of medical content technology for health care publishers, announced the launch of AccessPharmacy (http://www.accesspharmacy.com/), the fifth in a series of content-rich medical web applications developed on behalf of publisher McGraw-Hill.

Designed for students pursuing Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degrees, AccessPharmacy was built to complement current pharmacy curricula and hosts a deep library of reference and interactive resources. Driven by a double layer of Silverchair's semantic tagging technology, the application - organized by Curriculum Topics and Organ Systems - offers students a highly accurate semantic search engine for gathering information from 20 content-rich textbooks. The site also includes a drug index, calculators, an RSS pharmacy news feed, a comprehensive self-assessment module with more than 3,500 questions, and a fully interactive case study library where students can review cases and compose their own care plans to share with instructors.

The editor-in-chief of AccessPharmacy is Terry L. Schwinghammer, Pharm.D., BCPS, Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. His Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient- Focused Approach (6th edition) serves as the source text for the case studies feature called Cases & My Care Plans. "This section offers students online access to comprehensive patient cases covering almost 150 disease states," he said. "Students can also complete care plans online and submit case answers to their instructors electronically."

Like all online resources developed by Silverchair, AccessPharmacy was built on the company's Silverchair Content Manager (SCM) platform. The SCM web platform has also been deployed and customized for McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine (http://www.accessmedicine.com/), AccessSurgery (http://www.accesssurgery.com/), AccessEmergency Medicine (http://www.accessemergencymedicine.com/), and Harrison Online en Espanol (http://www.harrisonmedicina.com/).

"AccessPharmacy extends McGraw-Hill's online strategy of serving the particular needs of individual clinical specialties," said Thane Kerner, President & CEO of Silverchair. "Silverchair's advanced semantic technology provides a framework for the site that matches how pharmacy students learn - by both a topical curriculum and an organ system curriculum."

"Pharmacy students have more demanding requirements than ever to earn their degrees," explained Scott Grillo, Vice President for Digital Product Development at McGraw-Hill Professional. "McGraw-Hill's breadth of pharmacy resources and Silverchair's advanced technology platform will be a tremendous support to pharmacy students as they meet their curriculum demands."

About Silverchair

Founded in 1993, Silverchair Science+Communications, Inc., delivers superior health care information services to medical professionals through advanced technology and publishing solutions. It maintains offices in Charlottesville, VA, and Raleigh, NC. Additional information is available at http://www.silverchair.com/.

About McGraw-Hill Professional

McGraw-Hill Professional is a leading global provider of general interest, business, multimedia and computer titles and reference works that include materials for the scientific, technical and medical communities. It is a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 290 offices in 38 countries. Sales in 2005 were $6.0 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mheducation.com/.

Contact: Elizabeth Willingham, Executive Vice President Silverchair (434) 296-6333 x240 elizabethw@silverchair.com

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