Make Decisions Based on Best Evidence
Consistent and trusted evidence must be available at the point of care, point of discovery, point of reference, and point of learning.
Expand Access
People should have access to care and health data regardless of where they live, their ability to access in-person care, or care across healthcare systems.
Tailor Care to Individual Needs
Optimized outcomes for everyone based on their individual situation and needs. Broaden learning to train for inclusion and tap artificial intelligence (AI) for individualized patient engagement.
Ensure Fair & Equitable Health Opportunities (DE&I)
Regardless of social determinants, all people are entitled to equitable health opportunities and resources in order to be healthy and empowered.
Putting our commitment to health equity into practice
Advancing health equity means identifying tactical ways we can support the delivery of safe and equitable care across our health solutions, services, partners, and employees.
Our approach to advancing health equity
Safety, access, and affordability: How the pharmacist role is shifting
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the role of the pharmacist as an essential and accessible resource for patients, and, when integrated into the care team, can direct impact on medication safety, access, and costs. Dr. Stacey McCoy lends her thoughts on pharmacists as a core member of the clinical team.
Read The ArticleDelivering health equity and fostering resilience in nursing
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing community health disparities, and addressing these inequities is vital to moving healthcare forward. The nursing profession must be prepared to better understand and manage these factors, so they can work towards providing more equitable care for all.
Download The eBookTargeting global health inequity
Health care inequity is an issue that persists across the globe, from understaffed health systems in Brazil to surging numbers of new doctors in India in need of adequate training. By acknowledging these and other health inequity challenges, we can work towards technological- and evidence-based solutions that help provide the best care for all people, everywhere.
Download The InfographicGuiding healthcare language towards inclusivity and equity
Healthcare biases can stem from deeply embedded language in clinical content such as healthcare journals and patient education materials. By acknowledging these implicit biases, including among healthcare practitioners and researchers, and by reviewing past and present content, we can work towards providing more equitable and inclusive patient care.
Read The ArticlePartnering to advance the best care everywhere
Delivering benefits across borders
Our Global Partner Program offers exclusive benefits for organizations committed to improving care worldwide, helping clinicians improve evidence-based care with use of UpToDate and Lexicomp.
Equalizing care through better data
We’re partnering with The Better Evidence Program to give providers serving the world’s most vulnerable populations access to evidence-based resources, so they can improve global health equity.
Providing access to evidence-based information at sea
Through Mercy Ships, volunteer clinicians armed with donated clinical decision support tools from Wolters Kluwer can impact global communities and advance health equity.
Access to answers in the age of COVID-19
Post-COVID, UK hospital refocuses on doctor training and health equity
After COVID setbacks and unprecedented patient needs, NHS Trust adopted UpToDate to help junior and senior doctors improve training, decision support, and health equity initiatives.
Educating the cautious on COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine hesitancy continues to be problematic as the country tries to contain COVID-19. Listen as experts discuss how multimedia patient education can help address concerns and promote vaccination.
Resource helps clinicians master telemedicine
Lippincott TelemedInsights is helping providers transition to virtual visits, optimize their telehealth practices, and maintain patient-centric care while remote.
Access to clinical answers, anywhere
From deserts to mountains and everywhere in between, the Mongolian Ministry of Health is improving care by giving providers
access to timely, evidence-based medicine.
"Delivering more equity and access to healthcare is difficult, but essential. Fortunately, we see new opportunities for innovative thinking and digital health solutions to help advance equitable and inclusive approaches to achieve better health outcomes for all."
Stacey Caywood, CEO Wolters Kluwer Health and Global Growth Markets and CEO of Health Learning, Research & Practice
Expert Insights about diversity and inclusion
Improve health equity by developing clinical empathy
To improve health equity, clinicians need to develop, showcase, and implement clinical empathy in their care delivery to help rebuild decades of medical mistrust among marginalized groups.
Patient education through DE&I
In the digital healthcare space, there can be so much information that it can be hard for patients to know what to trust. Better representing patients through diversity in healthcare education has been shown to help cut through that skepticism and improve health literacy.
Partnering with community health centers to reduce disparities
Health systems have an opportunity to partner with community health centers to reduce medical mistrust among historically marginalized groups, impacting health outcomes and equity.
Representation on the record
Doctors Anna Feldweg and Kathryn Alheid Collins discuss the need for clinical content that’s inclusive, free of healthcare biases, and reflective of diverse, real-world populations.