Suki Launches “Ask,” Accelerating Complex Clinical Decision Support Powered by Wolters Kluwer UpToDate Expert AI

Clinicians routinely navigate fragmented information across the EHR while simultaneously evaluating patients, documenting encounters, and making clinical decisions. Finding a previous lab result, confirming a medication, reviewing patient history, or researching a clinical question can require multiple searches and workflow changes. According to the American Medical Association, extraneous cognitive load is associated with 87% of individual medical errors, while research on task-switching has shown that repeatedly shifting attention can reduce productivity. Ask replaces much of that manual hunting with natural conversation.

A clinician can ask Suki questions such as, “What was this patient’s last A1C?”, “What medications is she currently taking?”, or “Does she have any documented allergies?” When a question requires broader clinical knowledge, Ask can surface evidence-based information powered by UpToDate Expert AI without requiring the clinician to leave the Suki experience. Together, these capabilities provide a single conversational interface for interacting with both patient-specific context and trusted clinical knowledge.

“Ambient AI started by helping clinicians document the encounter, but its potential is much larger,” said Abhi Pathak, Chief Product Officer at Suki. “With Ask, clinicians can now interact with the information they need through natural conversation, whether that means understanding what has happened with a particular patient or accessing trusted clinical knowledge from UpToDate. We’re building toward a future where clinicians spend less time navigating technology and more time using information to care for patients.”

Early evaluations showed a strong preference for patient-context-aware responses, with clinician evaluators choosing responses from UpToDate Expert AI that incorporated Suki-supplied patient context 83% of the time, compared with responses without patient context (p<0.001). The preference is held across clinical management, clinical safety, diagnosis, screening, and dosing queries, with patient-context integration emerging as the primary driver of preference. The findings underscore the potential of combining Suki’s Ambient Clinical Intelligence with UpToDate’s trusted clinical reasoning to deliver more relevant, context-aware guidance.

The launch of Ask reflects Suki’s broader vision for Ambient Clinical Intelligence, expanding ambient AI beyond documentation to support clinical reasoning, assisted revenue cycle workflows, and operational tasks. Suki is bringing these capabilities together with patient context and intelligence from across the healthcare ecosystem to create a more connected AI experience for clinicians. Ask is one example of that vision in action, making the information clinicians need accessible through the simplest interface possible: a question. “Ask” is available today across Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, and MEDITECH.

About Suki

Suki is the leader in Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI), transforming clinical conversations into intelligence that powers documentation, coding, revenue cycle, clinical reasoning, and other workflows across the care journey. EHR-agnostic and built for a wide range of specialties and care settings, Suki reduces administrative burden while assisting healthcare organizations in improving clinical and financial performance. KLAS-validated results show Suki delivers more than $2,600 in average monthly financial impact per provider, alongside significant reductions in documentation time and after-hours work. Suki for Clinicians brings ACI directly into the clinical workflow, while Suki for Partners provides SDKs and APIs that embed Suki’s intelligence into healthcare technology products. Suki is backed by Venrock, First Round, Flare Capital Partners, March Capital, and Hedosophia. Learn more at suki.ai and follow Suki on LinkedIn.