ORLANDO, Fla. - Thursday, February 20th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information
for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the global
launch of UpToDate® Anywhere, enabling hospitals and healthcare
organizations worldwide to provide clinicians with mobile access to its
acclaimed clinical decision support resource anytime, anywhere and with
local-language search and navigation. The announcement, made during the
HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition, expands access of UpToDate
Anywhere beyond the U.S. and Canada to all major markets worldwide,
initially in Australia and New Zealand.
UpToDate Anywhere
provides hospitals, healthcare systems and hospital trusts with robust
tools to streamline user registration for, and ongoing management of
mobile access to UpToDate for clinicians. CMIOs in the US and Canada are
already leveraging UpToDate Anywhere to achieve workflow integration
objectives by embedding UpToDate in electronic medical record (EMR)
systems such as Epic and Cerner. Physicians who use UpToDate to research
clinical questions are also eligible to earn CME credit with every
search.
A recent worldwide survey by UpToDate* revealed that
doctors and healthcare institutions are increasingly implementing mobile
health strategies to drive adoption of devices like the iPad® as
clinical tools. The survey found that 77% of doctors use a smartphone
during practice and 70% use mobile devices for clinical decision
support. With the UpToDate mobile app, doctors get actionable answers to
point-of-care questions on-site, at satellite offices, at home or on
the go.
Ranked first among “The best medical apps for your new
iPhone” by iMedicalApps and rated as one of “The Best Apps in
Publishing” by EContent Magazine, UpToDate is available in iOS, Android™
and Windows 8 mobile platforms as well as via any mobile internet
browser. Over 181,000 clinicians are already using the UpToDate mobile
app worldwide.
Supporting the global launch of UpToDate Anywhere
is Search in Your Own Language, a customizable suite of local-language
search and navigation tools that allow clinicians to research clinical
questions in their native language. It streamlines searching for
clinical information and graded recommendations by leveraging an
advanced, patent-pending translation system for search terms in
Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Japanese and English. The intuitive auto-complete feature of
UpToDate search also predicts words or phrases in a clinician’s native
language to deliver faster results.
“Helping clinicians quickly
find the best answers to their clinical questions at the bedside, in the
clinic or wherever they may be is a central component of our mission to
improve care worldwide,” said Denise Basow, MD, Vice President and
General Manager, UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions.
“The global launch of UpToDate Anywhere, coupled with a concerted effort
to embed UpToDate within the leading EMR systems, advances that mission
by ensuring clinicians have quick access to trusted clinician
information at the point of care and beyond.”
Watch a video about UpToDate Anywhere enabling mobile healthcare.
UpToDate Anywhere will be featured at HIMSS14 in booth #1346. Follow UpToDate on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
*UpToDate 2014 Survey of 930 practitioners in 68 countries.
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters
Kluwer Health is a leading global provider of information, business
intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry.
Serving more than 150 countries and territories worldwide, Wolters
Kluwer Health’s customers include professionals, institutions and
students in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands
include Health Language®, Lexicomp®, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Medicom®,Medknow, Ovid®, Pharmacy OneSource®, ProVation® Medical and
UpToDate®.
Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a
market-leading global information services company. Wolters Kluwer had
2012 annual revenues of €3.6 billion ($4.6 billion), employs
approximately 19,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over
40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin
America. Follow our official Twitter handle: @WKHealth.
Contacts
Wolters Kluwer Health | UpToDate
André Rebelo, +1 781-392-2411+1 781-392-2411
Public & Analyst Relations Manager
andre.rebelo@wolterskluwer.com
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