Press Releases

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.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Dec. 31, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, ranked second overall among software vendors in the 2012 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. Only Epic outranked the company in the annual report from KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognizes healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction.

SILVER SPRING, M.D. – (Dec. 27, 2012) –Kinetic Analysis Corp., a leader in multi-model impact forecasting and risk assessment for catastrophic events, has appointed Steven Stichter as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Stichter replaces Jan Vermeiren, who will now serve as the company’s board chairman.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Dec. 27, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its ProVation^® MD software received top ranking in the Clinical Procedure Documentation Category of the 2012 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. This is the sixth consecutive year that ProVation MD has received the top honor in this category from KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognizes healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Dec. 27, 2012 – Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in data integrity and data quality solutions for healthcare organizations, has appointed Tami Montroy, MS, RHIA, CCS, as its director of data reconciliation services. In this role, Montroy will be responsible for managing the growth and day-to-day operations of the division, as well as interacting with client executives to ensure all service level and budget projections are met and quality expectations exceeded.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Dec. 4, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Covenant HealthCare has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Dec. 3, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has selected its ProVation^® MultiCaregiver as the organization’s electronic health record and patient charting solution.