Care teams need efficient tools at the point of care

Clinician and care team burnout is rampant, and healthcare administrators are searching for ways to make workflows more efficient. Technology and medical information are rapidly evolving, and leaders need to find ways to address workflow challenges to reduce care team burden and tasks so they can focus on delivering patient care. Some workflow challenges include:

Some workflow challenges include

  1. Siloed solutions across enterprises—Care teams across health clinics and locations use different technologies and reference solutions, increasing care variation
  2. Evolving medical information and recommendations—Medical knowledge increases every day, and clinicians are searching for the most current care recommendations and medication therapies
  3. Increasing care and technology complexity—Clinician burnout and technology onboarding can impact the necessary time to address complex care questions

Key benefits for your organization

Reveal actionable insights

Leverage UpToDate usage data across care teams to uncover population health trends and identify opportunities for proactive care.

Trust in clinical excellence

Rely on continuously updated, evidence-based content authored and reviewed by over 7,500 expert clinicians.

Stay ahead with innovation

Access the latest technology features and partner in the responsible advancement of AI in clinical decision support with the UpToDate team.

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 features to support care teams across health organizations and help them find clinical answers faster, operate efficiently within workflows, and reduce effort and burnout.

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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-enhanced search functionality.

  • 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 ab 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

Clinician insights:

87% Users who say UoToDate saves them time

1 minute Median session duration to find clinical information on mobile devices

2.5 minutes Faster time-to-answer compared to alternative CDS solutions

335,000 UpToDate users who processed CME/CE/CPD credits in 2023

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

Opportunity:

Partner with a trusted enterprise solution for improved care delivery with responsibly developed AI tools to augment clinician efforts, improve care team satisfaction, and reduce care variation.

  • AI-enhanced clinical topic search—clinicians can ask natural language or multi-concept questions that surface relevant, verbatim UpToDate topics
  • References trusted UpToDate articles verbatim and links directly to source articles and content sections for improved speed-to-answer
  • 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, helpful tools that improve workflows and impacts speed-to-answer 

Clinician statistics:

Clinicians' trust in AI is increasing.
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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

Insights:

  • 99% I would recommend UpToDate to a colleague
  • 95 I trust UpToDate as a point-of-care clinical information resource
  • 93% UpToDate improves the quality of care I provide to patients
  • 87% UpToDate is integral to my practice

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

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  • Trusted content

I’ve looked at other CDS vendors who have included AI in their solution. We selected UpToDate because of the superior content quality, and we can trust that the underlying content is indeed up to date, as UpToDate applies AI to the CDS process.

Rohith Saravanan, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Midland Health, TX, United States
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