Articles from Wolters Kluwer Health

The accessibility of controlled substances with significant street value creates an ongoing challenge for hospitals and medical centers: combating drug diversion (illegally obtaining prescription drugs) among healthcare staff. Healthcare organization leaders recognize the imminent threat to patients whose vital medications are stolen or substituted and the impact on team performance and workplace safety. Since 2019, the State of Drug Diversion survey report has been tracking the challenges faced by hospital leaders in detecting diversion of medications. Wolters Kluwer Health is now releasing new data from the comprehensive fifth edition of the report.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that KLAS Research has recognized the Sentri7® clinical surveillance solution as Best in KLAS® for infection control and monitoring in the 2025 Best in KLAS – Software and Services report. KLAS Research, which specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare solution providers, rated Sentri7 as the market leader for infection control for hospitals and health systems.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that Lippincott® Ready for NCLEX®-RN will now feature AI-driven remediation with personalized, multi-modal improvement plans, benefiting both nurse educators and students. These innovative, easy-to-use enhancements better prepare students for their nursing licensure exam, the Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), by providing adaptive and clinically focused learning materials.

As 2025 approaches, healthcare is undergoing unprecedented transformation. Headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the health sector have shifted away from grandiose promises as the dust starts to settle around the potential of Generative AI (GenAI). These innovations and others aim to reshape how healthcare is delivered. To shed light on anticipated trends, challenges and opportunities in healthcare technology in 2025, leading experts from Wolters Kluwer Health offer their outlook across a variety of topics in the 25 for ’25 predictions report.

The United States Pharmacopeia’s (USP) newer compliance guidelines for compounding pharmacies include more stringent requirements for cleanroom environmental monitoring. To better support customers’ adherence with the new documentation standards, Wolters Kluwer Health is integrating data from the Sonicu continuous environmental monitoring platform into Simplifi 797, its robust USP compounding compliance solution.

New data from Wolters Kluwer Health’s third Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends survey reveals how systemic changes in the pharmacy and retail healthcare environment, together with rising prescription costs, are profoundly affecting consumers’ attitudes toward their care. With more drugstore and retail clinic closures announced, American consumers are worried about accessing affordable care nearby while many are more open to new technologies like AI chatbots and QR codes to support their medication needs.

With the 2024 U.S. election approaching, consumers are facing a healthcare landscape undergoing extreme changes, as pharmacy and retail health closures, together with rising prescription costs, impact access to medications and primary care. In the third Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends survey, Wolters Kluwer Health releases new data that uncovers Americans’ top healthcare concerns going into the 2024 presidential election.

With the World Health Organization declaring mpox to be a global health threat for the second time in three years, Wolters Kluwer Health is once again providing free, online access to evidence-based information about the disease in a dedicated mpox resource center. The updated page includes content and tools from UpToDate®, the clinical decision support (CDS) resource, Lippincott NursingCenter®, the knowledge portal for nurses, and the Ovid® medical research platform. These resources are available to doctors, nurses, frontline healthcare workers, and researchers, as well as to the public.

Wolters Kluwer Health is collaborating with ConsortiEX, a pharmacy software and services company specializing in DQSA compliance, to offer Assure-Trak® IV Workflow Management in the Simplifi+® suite for compounding compliance. As Simplifi+ IV Workflow Management, the integration supports safer end-to-end compliance for compounded medications and more streamlined pharmacy workflows. Healthcare facilities using IV Workflow Management together with Simplifi 797® have a complete pharmacy compounding solution to help improve safety, accuracy, and efficiency.

Wolters Kluwer Health has released a new report outlining how healthcare leaders can help drive better patient outcomes for cardiovascular health. A whole, strategic approach to wellness spanning the entire care journey is cited as vital. The report, the first in a series on various disease states, is accompanied by a webinar that highlights the importance of empathetic and inclusive patient education that makes the patient part of the care team.

Health plans are under greater scrutiny, navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates $4.7 billion will be recovered from Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) audits, including extrapolation, from 2023 through 2032. To help mitigate this risk, Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced the Regulatory Audit Module as part of its Risk Adjustment solution.

A new Wolters Kluwer Health survey1 released today finds that 40% of U.S. physicians are ready to use generative AI (GenAI) this year when interacting with patients at the point-of-care. The findings reflect a rapid acceptance of the new technology more broadly, with 68% saying they have changed their views over the last year, and are now more likely to think that GenAI would be beneficial to healthcare.

Wolters Kluwer Health today launches two resources to advance simulation in nursing education and help nursing students build actionable skills from classroom knowledge: a new book titled, A Practical Guide for Nurse Practitioner Faculty Using Simulation in Competency-Based Education and an upcoming webinar, “Simulation in competency-based nurse practitioner education.”

With the significant growth of Dengue cases in Brazil, Wolters Kluwer Health is providing free, online access to evidence-based information about the disease from its clinical decision support (CDS) resource, UpToDate. Access is available to doctors, even if they are not UpToDate subscribers, as well as to the general community by visiting this link.

Wolters Kluwer Health today unveiled the next generation of clinical decision support (CDS) solutions, bringing together point-of-care decision support, workflow optimization, and patient-centered care resources into unified, interoperable user experiences. The new UpToDate® solution suites include UpToDate, UpToDate Lexidrug™ (formerly Lexicomp®), UpToDate Patient Engagement (formerly Emmi®), and UpToDate Digital Architect. The suites along with Medi-Span® provide consistent support across the care continuum.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced several key milestones for AI Labs, the Clinical Generative AI (GenAI) beta launched in 2023 and powered by UpToDate®, the globally trusted clinical decision support (CDS) solution. AI Labs now has access to the complete set of UpToDate’s evidence-based clinical content and graded recommendations across more than 25 medical specialties. It is the only large language model (LLM) exclusively powered by UpToDate trusted content.

Experts from Wolters Kluwer Health will be at HIMSS24 leading discussions on how advanced, integrated healthcare innovations are helping healthcare organizations deliver the best patient care around the world. The global health informatics conference and exhibition will take place in Orlando, FL, March 11-15, 2024.

Dr. Peter Bonis, the Chief Medical Officer for Wolters Kluwer Health, will speak on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare at a leading digital health tech industry event, ViVE 2024. The panel, titled “Lights, Camera, AI in Action: The AI Opening Act” will be held on Mon., Feb. 26 at 10AM PST. Panelists will address the potential of AI technologies including Generative AI (GenAI) to revolutionize the care experience for both patients and healthcare professionals.

Wolters Kluwer Health and NEJM Group, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), announced today that the new NEJM AI journal is now available on Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid® medical research platform.

Access to medical information in low-and-middle-income countries continues to hinder global health equity. To help meet this universal need, Wolters Kluwer Health and Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, are collaborating to bring full online access to select medical journals for Smile Train partners and affiliates globally. The vital resources will be available to Smile Train’s network of local clinicians through Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid® research platform.

Frost & Sullivan, a leading analyst firm, has named Wolters Kluwer Health as an Innovation & Growth Leader in the recent Frost Radar™ on Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). A review of 20 vendors ranked Wolters Kluwer Health’s portfolio, which includes UpToDate®, as a leader in both categories among CDSS providers helping clinicians make the best medical care decisions.

The World Economic Forum reports 97% of healthcare data goes unused. Addressing this gap, the digital healthcare company Innovaccer, Inc. is leveraging Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language Platform to empower health plans, life science companies, and provider organizations to enrich disparate data on the Innovaccer platform. With Wolters Kluwer data quality tools, Innovaccer can provide meaningful clinical, financial, and operational insights for improving patient care.

As 2024 nears, the healthcare landscape is undergoing unprecedented transformations, particularly with headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and Generative AI (GenAI) in particular, promising to reshape how healthcare is delivered. To shed light on anticipated trends and innovations impacting the healthcare industry in 2024, leading experts from across Wolters Kluwer Health offer their expectations for healthcare AI in 2024. Cutting through the hype, the predictions offer a compelling narrative of what’s ahead and guide us toward a more informed, connected, and resilient future in healthcare.

A new Wolters Kluwer Health survey, Generative AI in Healthcare: Gaining Consumer Trust, reveals one of the biggest concerns Americans have about generative AI (GenAI) in healthcare is not knowing where the medical information being used came from or how it is validated.1

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that three of the top children’s hospitals in the US have adopted Ovid® Synthesis to meet their clinical research needs. At a time when medical research is moving at a break-neck pace, it is more important than ever for hospitals and health systems to rely on trustworthy, evidence-based practice (EBP) workflow applications—especially when children’s care is on the line.

The International Health Facility Diversion Association estimates that more than 37,000 diversion incidents occur in U.S. healthcare facilities each year. Yet despite the fact that nearly all healthcare leaders agree drug diversion occurs, 79% believe that most cases go undetected (2023 State of Drug Diversion Survey). To better equip healthcare facilities to address this growing threat to patient and staff safety, Wolters Kluwer Health is expanding its Sentri7® clinical surveillance suite to include the Sentri7 Drug Diversion solution, formerly Flowlytics® from Invistics.1

Boasting virtual simulation, leading courseware and best-in-class consulting, as well as advanced testing and assessment to meet the needs of nursing schools’ innovative curriculums, Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the launch of Lippincott® Partnership for Nursing Education and Testing. With the integration of NurseTim® / NurseThink® now complete, Wolters Kluwer provides a full curriculum suite of educational products and services for the nation’s leading prelicensure nursing programs.

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) recently revised General Chapters <795>, <797>, and <800> that dictate compliance standards for sterile and nonsterile pharmaceutical compounding, with enforcement starting November 1, 2023. But as this date draws near, only 31% of pharmacies are prepared for full compliance with the 2023 USP 797 reference standards. Taking action to ensure compliance amid this transition, Midwest Surgical Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health’s Simplifi 797® technology, alongside the full Simplifi+® Pharmacy Compliance suite of solutions, to replace manual processes and support patient safety at its 25-bed ambulatory surgical center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that the Emmi® patient engagement and education solution received a 2023 Black Book award for highest client/user satisfaction from managed care providers. The Wolters Kluwer solution received the highest satisfaction score in the Black Book client experience polls out of 15 scored vendors/products.

The healthcare industry generates approximately 30% of the world's data volume.i Unfortunately, this data is often coded using a varied number of coding systems which makes it difficult to consolidate, standardize and deduplicate data for continuity of care, analytics, and AI applications. Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform, a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services FHIR service to help customers enrich and standardize their healthcare data with medical ontologies on Microsoft Azure. Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform enables customers to leverage its foundational expertise and sophisticated, proven abilities to transform disparate, messy healthcare data into clean, standardized, and interoperable data and insights.

The volume of healthcare information grows daily with estimates that by 2025, the compound annual growth will reach 36%. Clinicians rely upon medical librarians for trusted clinical content and as the data grows, so do the demands of the job. To examine the daunting challenges that medical librarians face while avoiding burnout, Wolters Kluwer Health and the Medical Library Association (MLA) will host a lively online discussion titled, “Doing more while avoiding burn-out: Helping medical librarians balance emerging demands,” today, October 4th, at 1:00 pm ET.

Wolters Kluwer Health has launched AI Labs, a collaborative resource that brings the power of generative AI to UpToDate, its market leading clinical decision support (CDS) solution, helping medical professionals make more informed decisions.

Wolters Kluwer Health has appointed Rafael Sidi as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Health Research segment. Sidi succeeds Vikram Savkar who is now the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions. Sidi reports to Stacey Caywood, CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health.

Substance use disorder has far-reaching impacts across society, and healthcare workers are not immune. In some cases, healthcare worker addiction can lead them to use prescription drugs intended for patients or steal them to be sold for personal benefit. A recent survey sponsored by Invistics, acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health earlier this year, found that despite 98% of healthcare executives agreeing that drug diversion occurs in hospitals, nearly four in five healthcare executives surveyed (79%) believe that most drug diversion goes undetected.

As US medical students head back to class, Wolters Kluwer Health is helping to power-up their study time by now offering UpToDate®, a market-leading clinical decision support (CDS) solution, as an available add-on to Anki, the popular, free online flashcard study app. Anki has become an essential memorization tool with a study finding that 70 percent of first-year medical students reported using Anki.

Wolters Kluwer Health is proud to announce that following its acquisition of Invistics, the company’s drug diversion monitoring software received exceptional recognition from KLAS in the Drug Diversion Monitoring 2023 report. The recently published KLAS report highlights the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, customer satisfaction, ease of use, and effectiveness of the solution in identifying and preventing drug diversion incidents within healthcare organizations.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that 15 of its Lippincott healthcare titles received 28 wins in the 35th annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) Competition. Seven of these titles received the prestigious Grand Awards including PRS Global Open, Neurology Today, Nurse Educator, The Nurse Practitioner, American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Management, and Emergency Medicine News.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced strong results for the Lippincott portfolio of journals in the 2022 Journal Impact Factor (JIF), the journal metric released annually by Clarivate Analytics as part of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Against an industry backdrop of declining JIFs, Lippincott’s performance in the latest rankings showed consistent year-over-year improvements.

August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) in the U.S. and, as parents prepare to send their children back to school, routine immunization is a must-have to ensure a healthy start. Yet, while Americans increasingly turn to local pharmacies to get their adult vaccinations, many are sticking solely with primary care doctors or pediatricians for their children’s vaccines. That’s according to the results of the Pharmacy Next survey, commissioned by Wolters Kluwer Health, which found overall shifts away from primary care physicians for immunizations. One area, childhood vaccinations, bucks that trend, posing headwinds for pharmacies seeking to grow adoption of their immunization services.

Wolters Kluwer Health and Unbound Medicine today announced the launch of a brand new mobile app version of the original and best-selling drug guide for nurses—Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. The application transforms 100% of the print edition content into an end-to-end digital platform with the latest updates from the FDA.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that the Sentri7® clinical surveillance and Simplifi+® pharmacy compliance teams received a 2023 Black Book award for highest client satisfaction. Wolters Kluwer was ranked among the highest-scoring hospital IT and support suppliers in the Black Book client experience polls.

Stacey Caywood, Chief Executive Officer of Wolters Kluwer Health, is focused on identifying ways to overcome the long-term challenges of widespread inequities in global health. Tackling systemic obstacles will require investment, better use of health data, and trustworthy medical information resources, according to Caywood who was discussing these elements of Wolters Kluwer’s Best Care Everywhere program in a recent interview on MarketScale.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, has announced the first-ever integration of its UpToDate® clinical decision support (CDS) in Fakeeh Technologies’ YASASII® electronic medical record (EMR) system. Fakeeh Care Group, a leading healthcare network and care management company, has now integrated the globally recognized CDS at three hospitals in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Following months of collaboration with some of the United States’ leading university nursing programs, Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical have officially launched vrClinicals for Nursing. The virtual reality (VR) based learning solution helps address today’s gaps in nursing education and the nursing workforce, allowing students to go from the classroom to a busy hospital ward where they encounter true-to-life challenges such as prioritizing care among multiple patients and the demands of practice.

Across industries, the influx of new technology is continuing to roll out at a break-neck pace, with artificial intelligence (AI) at the forefront. To examine the opportunities and risks in using new technologies for research, evidence based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) Wolters Kluwer Health, will host an online event titled, “Achieving academic excellence in nursing with new technologies: An Ovid® Synthesis webinar,” on Tuesday, June 13th from 2 to 3pm ET.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced it has signed and completed the acquisition of Invistics Corporation (Invistics), a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that the global customer support teams for Ovid®, Lippincott®, and Audio Digest® received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Service Award (NFSB) for the 12th consecutive year from Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC (CRMI). The team once again achieved Summit status – which requires seven consecutive years of rankings – in recognition for its ongoing exceptional customer-centric mindset.

The days of patients receiving all medical care at a hospital or physician’s office are over, and a new survey, commissioned by Wolters Kluwer Health, shows the shift is due to growing trust in providers in non-traditional primary care settings driven by a desire for more convenient and affordable care. The second Pharmacy Next: Consumer Care and Cost Trends survey data also show generational trends that suggest this shift in the healthcare ecosystem is permanent and will change how all stakeholders approach care delivery in the coming years.

Experts from Wolters Kluwer Health will be guiding discussions and providing key insights into how the latest healthcare technology innovations are helping health systems to deliver the best patient care everywhere at HIMSS23. The global health conference and exhibition is widely regarded as one of the most influential health information technology events of the year, and will take place in Chicago next week.

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) and Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare are implementing Wolters Kluwer Health’s Ovid® Synthesis Clinical Evidence Manager solution, to support evidence-based clinical research initiatives. The cloud-based workflow tool will specifically support HPMC’s Shared Governance Program and Sentara’s Healthcare Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the launch of the Coder Workbench, a high-productivity Risk Adjustment solution built on the Health Language Data Platform that optimizes medical record review for risk adjustment workflows. The tool improves coder efficiency 20-40%*, with embedded Medicare Advantage business intelligence, intuitive workflows, and intelligent chart organization features. The Coder Workbench application in the Health Language Risk Adjustment Suite brings together semantically enriched medical terminology with clinically intelligent natural language processing (NLP) technology to automate the identification of valuable patient health insights in medical records.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the launch of Lippincott® Medical Procedures, a new clinical point of care solution to better prepare novice clinicians, and Lippincott® Connect Courseware, aimed at improving the educational process for both students and teachers. These new offerings support learning wherever and whenever it is convenient – building on Lippincott’s full suite of essential medical products, from books and journals to digital solutions.

While Americans increasingly access health information online, a new survey commissioned by Wolters Kluwer Health reveals that most would prefer to receive educational materials directly from a trusted, expert source – their own healthcare providers. The survey found that two-thirds (66%) of patients have questions after a provider encounter and one in five patients (19%) has new questions following the appointment. The research found that patients are eager to receive educational materials from their providers, but when left without those resources, patients turn to unvetted sources of information including website articles, peer recommendations, and social media.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that KLAS Research has recognized the Sentri7® clinical surveillance solution as Best in KLAS® for infection control and monitoring for the second year in a row in the 2023 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. KLAS Research, which specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, rated Sentri7 as the market leader for infection control for hospitals and health systems.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that Emmi Patient Engagement was ranked Best in KLAS® in the 2023 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. KLAS Research, which specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, rated Emmi as top performing for Patient Driven Care Management—tools that extend beyond patient communications to provide guidance that helps patients manage their own care.

Wolters Kluwer, Health and Laerdal Medical today announced the development of vrClinicals for Nursing, an immersive, virtual reality (VR) nursing education experience designed to strengthen practice readiness. vrClinicals is built on evidence-based scenarios authored by the National League for Nursing (NLN) that simulate a realistic hospital environment, including challenging elements such as multiple patient scenarios, and interruptions to better prepare students in delivering quality patient care.

Wolters Kluwer, Health, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a new collaboration with Take the Wind, the company behind the leading digital simulation platform Body Interact, to help expand virtual training tools and resources for medical and physician assistant students. The offering allows students to interact with virtual patients in life-like scenarios, where they are encouraged to assess, order tests, and diagnose in a safe environment.

Wolters Kluwer, Health, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry has announced the integration of BioDigital XR with Wolters Kluwer Medical Education & Medical Practice expansion. This collaboration will bring extended reality (XR) based medical education solutions to students across the healthcare landscape to enhance their learning curriculum, providing an immersive, safe-to-fail environment with both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions.

Wolters Kluwer, Health today marked 30 years of UpToDate®, an industry-leading clinical decision support (CDS) solution. More than two million clinicians in over 190 countries trust UpToDate to help them improve care by providing evidence-based answers to clinical questions. Studies have demonstrated that UpToDate helps improve decision-making, leading to higher quality of care and improved health outcomes. It has also had a substantial impact on medical education.

As American consumers look for healthcare that is easier to access and not one-size-fits-all, together with prescription medications that are safer and more affordable, a new survey commissioned by Wolters Kluwer shows how willing consumers are to dramatically transform the primary care landscape, changing the roles, systems, and institutions we know today. The survey reveals surprising inter-generational trends among Americans ready to extend their trust for care beyond traditional settings – even to genomic testing – if it means lower costs and better health outcomes.

As an active participant in the fast-changing open medicine landscape, Wolters Kluwer, Health has published a new report titled, “The Path to Open Medicine: Driving Global Health Equity through Medical Research.” The paper defines what open medicine means today and sets forth a vision of how all stakeholders in the space, including funders, institutions, publishers, and researchers, must collaborate to deliver on the collective benefit of medical research and ultimately advance global health equity.

To support more accurate, consistent, and safe emergency cart restocking and medication tray management, Wolters Kluwer, Health has launched Simplifi+® MedTrays. Part of Simplifi+®, a comprehensive suite of pharmacy compliance solutions, Simplifi+ MedTrays helps ensure medication trays are stocked according to policy, optimizes medication inventory, and manages tray verification to comply with medication management requirements. The solution supports more consistent safety checks and improved efficiency enterprise-wide while reducing the burden on pharmacy departments.

Wolters Kluwer Health and NEJM Group have entered into an exclusive partnership to ensure that more researchers and clinicians around the world can access the growing family of NEJM Group journals. Building on years of collaboration, this expanded partnership positions NEJM Group journals for sustained global growth through Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid® medical research platform. Publications currently included are the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Evidence, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, NEJM Journal Watch, the NEJM Archive, and future NEJM Group journals.

To accelerate deployment of digital health technologies by virtual care vendors and payers, Wolters Kluwer, Health today launched Digital Health Architect™ Consumer Education Suite and EmmiGuide™. These solutions, which are debuting at the 2022 HLTH conference, combine digital tools with unprecedented access to expert-vetted content – the same content that powers widely used solutions such as UpToDate®, Lexicomp® and Emmi ®, to help virtual care vendors and payers provide consistent, evidence-based information to patients and members and improve care wherever and however it’s delivered.

Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced it is partnering with Microsoft to enable healthcare organizations to unleash innovation through the combination of Wolters Kluwer’s market-leading solutions and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Every hour sepsis goes untreated, mortality risk increases by about 8%.1 Early, accurate detection of patients with sepsis is essential to ensuring sepsis bundle compliance, improving clinical outcomes, and reducing costs from an extended length of stay (LOS). Wolters Kluwer, Health has expanded the Sentri7® suite of clinical surveillance tools to include Sentri7 Sepsis Monitor – empowering hospitals and health systems to identify sepsis earlier and supporting staff in delivering the best care everywhere.

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To meet demand for credible resources that support global public health efforts and evidence-based practice, Wolters Kluwer, Health has added two research collections to its medical research platform, Ovid®. The Public Health Advantage collection brings together the CABI Global Health and Ovid HealthStar databases with additional public health resources in a single subscription, empowering researchers, clinical managers, and students to better prepare for current and emerging public health threats. The Evidence-Based Health collection offers a distinct curation of content resources providing users with the best available, evidence-based scientific information to improve healthcare.

Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced that Christopher Sullivan has been appointed as Vice President and General Manager of the Commercial Segment for Clinical Effectiveness.

Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today Lippincott ClinicalPulse is now available for clinicians to learn from the latest peer research in an audio format. The new offering from Lippincott, leading global publisher of current and influential medical, nursing, and allied health research, contains over 200 credits, and the ability for clinicians to complete and track their continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education credits (CE).

Each year in the United States, sepsis accounts for 270,000 deaths and costs nearly $27 billion — making it one of the largest cost drivers for U.S. hospitals.1 To quickly identify and best care for patients with sepsis or sepsis shock, Blessing Health System (Blessing), an integrated health system in Quincy, Illinois, has selected POC Advisor from Wolters Kluwer, Health.

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Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today that it has donated three market-leading clinical decision support (CDS) tools including UpToDate®, Lexicomp®, and Lippincott Procedures® to Mercy Ships, a global humanitarian organization that operates two floating hospitals serving underprivileged populations. The donated software will support doctors, nurses, and clinical staff working on the Africa Mercy®, and the newer, recently launched ship, the Global Mercy®. With these donations, clinicians aboard both ships will have essential CDS resources to aid them in providing the best care to vulnerable patients in remote areas of Africa.

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To support the evolution of medical publishing toward higher velocity exchange of scientific findings, Wolters Kluwer, Health announced two key additions to the Lippincott® portfolio. The Lippincott Preprints, powered by Figshare, serves as a forum for sharing pre-review medical findings with the global medical community and the Lippincott Data Repository enables researchers to share data from their clinical experiments for greater transparency and deeper validation of findings.