Press Releases

Minneapolis, Minn. — April 11, 2013— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that key challenges to the use of Infobutton technology are addressed in a Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) article by Howard Strasberg, M.D., Vice President of Medical Informatics. “Terminology Challenges Implementing the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (‘Infobutton’) Standard” singles out one of many challenges confronting healthcare providers with integration and use of clinical decision support (CDS) technology in electronic health records (EHRs).

TAMPA, Fla. – April 3, 2013 – HealthPlan Services℠, (HPS), the nation’s leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, announced today that Blue Shield of California will utilize its Go-To-Exchange℠ platform to streamline participation in the Covered California Exchange.

TAMPA, Fla. – April 2, 2013 – MedHOK, which delivers industry leading actionable healthcare solutions across an integrated cloud-based platform, announced today that Inland Empire Health Plan will deploy its comprehensive platform for care, quality and compliance to enhance patient population management and improve patient care.

Leicester, UK — (March 25, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its clinical decision support (CDS) system, UpToDate®, has a positive impact on medical education for not only registrars in training and junior doctors, but it can also play a role in continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation. Interactive learning that is sequenced or reinforced in multiple sessions improves retention and has the potential to improve quality of care.1 UpToDate is emerging as a resource in on-the-job continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation for senior clinicians.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (March 19, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that ThedaCare has selected its ProVation^® Medical software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in its cardiac catheterization labs at Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center.

TAMPA, Fla. – March 15, 2013 – MedHOK, which delivers industry leading actionable healthcare solutions for care, quality and compliance across an integrated cloud-based platform, has been named the winner of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2013 BizTech Innovation of the Year Award.

Waltham, MA – (March 12, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that British Columbia’s Divisions of Family Practice has selected UpToDate^® as its evidence-based clinical decision support system. By integrating UpToDate into its member portal, the organization’s 4,000 practitioners can access the latest evidence-based information at the point of care and accrue Main-Pro CMS credits for each search performed.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (March 12, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that MetroHealth has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as its evidence-based order set solution.

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.