Care teams need efficient tools at the point of care

Clinicians and care teams still face levels of burnout and administrative burden, and healthcare administrators are searching for ways to make workflows more efficient. Technology and medical information are rapidly evolving, and leaders need to address workflow challenges and integrate clinical intelligence across the enterprise so clinicians can focus on delivering patient care.

Some workflow challenges include:

  1. Siloed information solutions across teams and enterprises, increasing care variation.
  2. Evolving medical information and recommendations, leaving clinicians searching for the most current care recommendations and medication therapies.
  3. Increasing care and technology complexity can impact the time to address complex care questions.

Advanced features to support better workflows

For decades, healthcare professionals worldwide have trusted UpToDate® clinical decision support (CDS) to enable confident decision-making and reduce variability in care. UpToDate Enterprise Edition has advanced workflow features to support care teams across health organizations and help them get faster clinical guidance, operate more efficiently, and reduce administrative burden.

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  • Providing standardized clinical tools to care teams enterprise-wide

    Support IT administration by streamlining technology solutions and standardizing referential information across clinical teams, leading to more aligned care decisions.

  • Harnessing responsible AI tools for efficient information retrieval

    Improve speed-to-answer to trusted evidence-based information and clinical recommendations with AI-powered clinical intelligence across workflows.

  • Supporting complex care decisions at the point of care

    Equip clinicians with advanced decision support features to support complex care questions, decision paths, and abnormal lab results.

  • Standardized tools

  • Responsible AI

  • Decision support 

Challenge

Siloed or ad hoc solutions across locations and enterprises can create challenges for IT and clinical teams, especially when it comes to decision support.

Opportunity

Efficient and streamlined access to point-of-care clinical insights across teams and devices for more consistent decisions, saved time, improved workflow, and reduced variation in care, as well as efficient IT management and user maintenance.

  • Aligned clinical and drug content across care teams—including complex care decision support—reducing care variation for teams, improving ROI, and providing a technology option for all clinicians across the organization
  • Quick, reliable access to clinical decision support for care teams on different devices through single sign-on (SSO), including electronic health records (EHRs) integrations and mobile device access
  • Standardized technology solutions support IT teams through easier implementation, secure SSO login, and user management
  • Administrative analytics dashboards of UpToDate topic usage across care teams identify population health trends, opportunities for usage and workflow improvement, and gaps in care

87% of users say UpToDate saves them time
2.5 minutes faster time-to-answer compared to alternative CDS solutions

Source: Wolters Kluwer survey of United States physicians in large hospitals or health systems. February 2024. N=100. Data on file.

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Challenge

AI is rapidly developing and medical information is constantly updating—care teams need an efficient, trusted resource to reduce time spent searching for clinical and drug information.

Opportunity

Partner with an enterprise solution with responsibly developed AI tools grounded in trusted UpToDate content to augment clinician efforts, improve care team satisfaction, and reduce care variation.

  • UpToDate Expert AI provides fast, generative responses grounded in evidence-based recommendations with rigorous AI standards that prioritize transparency, evidence, and clinical integrity
  • AI-enhanced clinical topic search—clinicians can ask natural language or multi-concept questions that surface relevant, verbatim UpToDate topics and links directly to source articles
  • Quickly access evidence-based care recommendations in more than 12,800 topics across 25 specialties from over 7,600 clinician authors, editors, and reviewers, regularly updated with transparent sources
  • Ongoing AI innovation development in collaboration with practicing clinicians for trusted tools that improve workflows and impact speed-to-answer

Clinicians' trust in AI is increasing—what would make them more comfortable?

91% – Source content for AI should be created by doctors and medical experts
86% – Vendors should be transparent about where information came from, who created it, and how it was sourced
76% – AI-powered technology should be from an established company

Source: Wolters Kluwer survey of United States physicians in large hospitals or health systems. February 2024. N= 100. Data on file.

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Challenge

Clinicians need to efficiently answer complex, patient-specific care questions and have solutions directly at the point of care and within current workflows.

Opportunity

  • Standardize care decisions – UpToDate clinical and drug information is accessible to answer crucial questions through mobile devices and within the EHR, plus enhanced features that support complex care decisions and improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.
  • EHR integrations – Access UpToDate directly from the EHR for decision-making at the point of care, with patient-specific care and drug information available to print or email
  • Care pathways – Within UpToDate, navigate critical, complex decision points with interactive pathways that adhere to clinical best practices and improve speed-to-answer
  • Lab interpretations – Concise monographs that help clinicians interpret abnormal lab results, reduce unnecessary testing, and determine next steps
  • Patient education – Accessible, diverse patient-friendly medical and drug content available in 20+ languages and aligned with clinical recommendations and drug therapies

95% of users trust UpToDate as a point-of-care clinical information resource

Source: UpToDate individual subscriber survey, September 2024, N=11,118

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  • Trusted content

Before implementing UpToDate Enterprise Suite, our teams were struggling with fragmented workflows and disconnected systems. It was clear we needed a unified approach to improve both clinical efficiency and operational cohesion.
Tracy Samson, RN, CEN, MSN, PhD, IT
Manager, Clinical Applications, St. Luke’s University Health Network
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