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MINNEAPOLIS, MN –June 9, 2010 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Sibley Memorial Hospital has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution. The hospital will implement the latest version of the software, which includes the unique One Click Updates tool, enabling easy and automatic updating to keep order sets current with the latest medical evidence.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Sibley Memorial Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution. The hospital will implement the latest version of the software, which includes the unique One Click Updates tool, enabling easy and automatic updating to keep order sets current with the latest medical evidence.

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – June 8, 2010– Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that the Endoscopy Center of North Baltimore has selected its ProVation® MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, and its ProVation® EHR electronic health record and patient charting solution.

Waltham, Mass. (June 8, 2010) — UpToDate, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, announced today that it has been selected by IASIS Healthcare® LLC (“IASIS”) to provide clinical decision support in IASIS’ 16 US hospitals. Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy.

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CENTENNIAL, Colo. – June 2, 2010 – Beth Just, CEO and President, Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in data integrity and data quality solutions for the Health Information Exchange, Health Information Management (HIM), Health Informatics and Health Information Technology markets, has been appointed to The College of St. Scholastica Board of Trustees.

Although the order set, a standardized set of evidence-based treatment guidelines for a certain medical condition, has been around for decades, regulatory issues surrounding the performance of core measure and government funding for healthcare information technology through meaningful use guidelines have created an impetus for organizations to more rapidly expand their use of electronic versions of this tool.

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HealthEast Care System has nearly 600 order sets in its computerized provider order entry system. Nearly 250 of those are evidence-based and contain some form of clinical decision support.

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