Elsevier Acquires NurseSquared, Provider of 'a Simulated Electronic Health Record' for Student Training

NurseSquared Offers Hospital-Like Software Developed for the Educational Environment With Focus on Student Learning and Instruction

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, January 5 - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), the leading global publisher of
scientific, technical, and medical information products and services,
announced today the acquisition of NurseSquared (www.nursesquared.com)
, the leading electronic health record (EHR) training product in the market
that teaches students how to properly document using a simulated EHR. The
NurseSquared training tool allows Elsevier to offer a more complete
curriculum solution, including an EHR training tool, to academic customers.

"Simulation is becoming an important part of the overall health science
curriculum and EHRs are being used increasingly in practice. In fact,
hospitals are requesting that students become better trained on electronic
documentation," said Sally Schrefer, Managing Director, Nursing and Health
Professions for Elsevier. "A simulated EHR is an essential component of the
comprehensive simulation experience."

NurseSquared provides a simulated EHR and charting system with embedded
documentation scenarios that can be used in the classroom, SIM (simulation)
Lab, or real-world clinicals. Although closely resembling a real live EHR
with features similar to hospital software, NurseSquared is not an EHR, but
rather is a product focused on teaching students appropriate documentation
within an electronic health records system.

    The product includes the following key features:

    - Hospital-like electronic documentation - Students learn to document
      electronically as they perform various patient assessments.

    - Care plan construction - Students are required to select appropriate
      nursing diagnoses and nursing actions that are related to specific
      medical diagnoses, and they must also add appropriate assessments
      and interventions for their individual patients. This module teaches
      the nursing process, critical thinking, and clinical judgment, as well
      as proper documentation.

    - "MyClinicals" - This module allows students to input their own patient
      assignments from clinical rotations and then appropriately document
      and chart the findings from these assignments.

    - Competency Assessment - Questions to test competency are integrated into
      the product. Answers can be shared with students in a study mode, or
      instructors can elect to have the student answers submitted and graded.
      Numerous extensive reports are available to faculty for further
      evaluation of student documentation skills and clinical judgment
      competencies.

"The acute shortage of clinical sites for nursing and health professions
education has led to the need for simulation as a key component of the
curriculum," said Renee Fransen, RN, BSN, Co-founder, NurseSquared,
"Hospitals are asking nursing schools to better prepare students on clinical
documentations while the government stimulus package is driving the need for
health professions students to be trained on the use of clinical decision
support systems and EHRs."

The acquisition is effective immediately and terms of the
agreement are not being disclosed.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services. The company works in
partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more
than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell
(www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com),
Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and
Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the
productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite
(www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com),
which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier
(www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part
of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading
publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier
PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),
REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

    Tom Reller
    Vice President
    Global Corporate Relations
    T.Reller@elsevier.com
    +1-215-239-3508

Tom Reller, Vice President, Global Corporate Relations, T.Reller at elsevier.com, +1-215-239-3508