Press Releases

DENVER, CO (March 1, 2013) —Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Global Technology Resources, Inc. (GTRI) and the United States Department of Defense (DoD) have selected Health Language^® to enhance documentation and workflow within the Armed Forces Clinical Database. Health Language medical terminology management software and services will enable the DoD to leverage greater granularity and trending for more robust population analytics and business intelligence reporting.

Minneapolis, MN (February 28, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today it will team up with FHN Memorial Hospital to provide HIMSS13 attendees with insight into the use of intuitive clinical decision support to improve core measures outcomes. The session, “Improving Core Measures with Evidence-Based Order Sets and Intuitive CDS,” will take place on March 4 at 12:15 p.m. in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room 388 and will be led by Adam Lokeh, MD, of Wolters Kluwer Health (Booth #1740) and Lucio Martinez, MD, of FHN Memorial Hospital.

Waltham, Mass. – (February 28, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that it has added Dermatology to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, marking the 21st medical specialty included in an UpToDate subscription.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (February 27, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the introduction of ProVation^® Care Plans, powered by Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions, a robust software solution that provides nurses and allied health professionals with the tools they need to create, customize and maintain evidence-based interdisciplinary care plans.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – (Feb. 21, 2013) – Mosaica Partners has completed three in-depth reports on behalf of the State of Arizona describing the status of, and potential for, health information exchange (HIE) in three under-represented areas: long-term care, rural health, and behavioral health. A fourth report from the nationally recognized HIE consulting firm provides insight into the state’s general HIE readiness based on a series of comprehensive interviews with Arizona thought-leaders and stakeholders.

DENVER, CO (February 14, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that ICA has selected Health Language^® to support its health information exchange (HIE) platform. Health Language medical terminology management software and services will enable ICA, a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables care management and HIE, to create longitudinal patient records and enhance reporting and analytics across entire populations.

Waltham, Mass. – Feb. 14, 2013 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Bali Royal Hospital has selected UpToDate^® as its evidence-based clinical decision support system. The hospital represents the first UpToDate client in Indonesia.

LAKE MARY, Fla. – (Feb. 5, 2013) – Poor health literacy and low medication adherence are significant contributing factors to the 177,000 deaths each year from medication misuse and errors. Indeed, as many as half of all patients fail to follow proper use instructions and 60% are unable to identify their prescribed medications.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Feb. 5, 2013 — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Parkview Health has selected its ProVation^® Medical Software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Jan. 29, 2013 — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Scripps Health has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

Waltham, Mass. – (Jan. 29, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that more than 9 out of 10 UpToDate^® users believe their use of the clinical decision support resource improves quality of care and leads to more efficient patient management. Responses from the more than 17,000 users who participated in the 2012 Subscriber Survey underscored the critical role UpToDate plays in improving care, preventing errors, increasing clinical efficiencies and reducing costs related to delays in diagnosis and treatment.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Jan. 16, 2013 — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Centra Health has selected its ProVation^® Medical software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in its cardiac catheterization labs.

TAMPA, Fla. – Jan. 10, 2013 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing software companies, announced today that it has achieved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) Software Certification for its 360Measures®, version 2.56, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA). This marks the third consecutive year MedHOK has achieved this certification by successfully passing all 68 program measures, including the CAHPS sample frames, and the systematic sampling methodology.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Jan. 3, 2013— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, was ranked by KLAS as the top order set software in its annual report on the clinical decision support solutions market. Clinical Decision Support 2012: Order Sets, Care Plans, Drug Databases[i] also ranked Medi-Span^® highest among drug database vendors for configurability and a close second in alert types enabled.

MADISON, Wis. – Jan. 3, 2013 – Amphion Medical Solutions, an innovative provider of transcription and coding technology and outsourcing services, announced today the release of enhancements to its Triton Transcription Client (TTC). A feature of the Triton Health Document Cloud™ complete transcription solution, TTC enables higher levels of productivity and faster turnaround of fully-edited clinical documentation, resulting in cost efficiencies and ensuring important patient data is available to key stakeholders in a timely manner.