UpToDate

UpToDate from Wolters Kluwer is evidence-based clinical decision support, now offered with Expert AI delivering insights that support faster clinical decisions.

Its editorial process is what the product actually sells. UpToDate is written and continually revised by practising clinicians who synthesise the evidence into a recommendation rather than presenting search results, and Wolters Kluwer publishes both that editorial process and its AI principles openly. That transparency matters more in medicine than in any other software category, because a clinician acting on a recommendation is accountable for it and needs to know how it was reached.

The product line separates clinical decision support from drug decision support deliberately. UpToDate with Expert AI, UpToDate Pro Plus, the mobile app and an Enterprise Edition cover clinical questions, while UpToDate Lexidrug, including a dentistry edition, web services and Facts and Comparisons, covers medication decisions. Splitting them reflects how the questions differ: what is wrong with this patient is a different enquiry from whether these two drugs interact.

Audiences are addressed by role rather than generically, spanning clinical leaders, medical universities, retail health and pharmacy leaders, hospital technology leaders, health plan executives, medical librarians, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and residents, fellows and students. Continuing medical education is included so time spent searching earns credit. Pricing is not published, being licensed individually or by institution.