Healio.com: Specialty knowledge delivered in a more powerful platform

Dear Readers:

As the world of publishing has evolved, so has the mission of SLACK Incorporated, the publishers of Infectious Diseases in Children. From the company’s start in print 90 years ago to its current roster of medical newspapers and 18 websites, SLACK’s team of seasoned medical reporters and physician-led editorial boards now drives expert information to more than 9 million users each month. The peer-reviewed literature and good biomedical research are our mainstay for progress in clinical care and hope for the future. This literature has a well-required delay from the completion of new knowledge to publication. Our goal is to bring new information and a variety of recommendations, reports, and data in a timely fashion that can be used in your practice.

Now I’m pleased to report that Infectious Diseases in Children readers will still be able continue to enjoy their news in print, but will also have access to all of this valuable medical information under one website at www.Healio.com, the new online home of all SLACK publications.

The breaking news and specialized information at Healio.com is not simply a new destination for old information. Using the reporting we’ve come to rely on through SLACK’s print publications, Healio.com will offer a more powerful online platform for clinical information, both within your specialties, as well as the specialties of your peers. In one click of a mouse, or in a simple screen swipe of your tablet or mobile device, you’ll have access to breaking news in the many specialties and subspecialties that have a powerful impact on your practice.

The specialties you’ll find on Healio.com will include:

Adolescent Medicine
Allergy and Immunology
Dermatology
Cardiology
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatric Medicine
Hematology/Oncology
Hepatology
Infectious Disease
Ophthalmology
Optometry
Orthopedics
Orthotics and Prosthetics
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Rheumatology
Sports Medicine
Also, Nursing

Personalized content

With so many specialties at your disposal, you’ll be able to register your practice preferences in all of the topics that you want to know about, so that the site delivers dynamic material that is personal to your professional experience. If you’re a pediatrician who sees a significant number of children with infectious diseases, along with diabetes or asthma, then you can personalize your content delivery to receive the latest headlines in all of these specialties. By delivering the personalized content that is most meaningful to you, you’ll have the resources you need to be able to choose when, and if, to put your knowledge into practice.

Creating a conversation

During the past 25 years since it has been in print, one of the most well-received components of Infectious Diseases in Children and the PediatricSuperSite.com has been the physician perspective that accompanies so many of the published news items. On Healio.com, that SLACK tradition will continue, and registered users will have the opportunity to comment and to lend their perspectives, creating a conversation with your peers online. You can also share and “like” the stories that are important to you with your colleagues through email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Digg. Learning from our peers and commenting to each other about how we practice ensures that we are able to provide the highest quality care to our patients.

A commitment to educate

Once you’re finished reading the latest news, studies and clinical trials, the Healio.com Education Lab will allow users to participate in CME and other educational activities online, so you can fulfill all of your education requirements while you’re on the go. Healio.com users will also have access to SLACK’s reference series, Curbside Consultations. Published across a large number of specialties, Curbside Consultations is renowned for answering the compelling questions that doctors face each day in practice, and provides detailed answers that physicians, nurses and other health care personnel can reference easily for their patients.

A history of delivering information

On cementing its place online as a leading medical news destination, Healio.com will also feature robust onsite meeting coverage, blogs, video, multimedia presentations and compelling editorials, columns and perspectives from your colleagues at leading institutions. You’ll have access to the full library of medical newspapers, books, peer-reviewed journals, and education materials produced by SLACK Incorporated, a family-owned company that has provided the medical community with award-winning information since 1923.

Healio.com will enhance the ability of every Infectious Diseases in Children reader to uniquely pursue his or her interests and design his or her own personalized portal of news, books, journals and educational materials online. The publishers of Infectious Diseases in Children and I are proud to bring this expanded application of information to our valued readers.

Bookmark www.Healio.com/Pediatrics on all of your devices now so that we can “continue the conversation” online and learn what we need to better serve our patients together.

See you online!

Richard F. Jacobs, MD

Chief Medical Editor, Infectious Diseases in Children