HIMSS23: Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer building clinical insights tool
Fierce Healthcare April 21, 2023
CHICAGO—Early on during the COVID-19 pandemic, information services company Wolters Kluwer Health teamed up with Microsoft to tap into its analytics and cloud technologies to predict the next outbreak.
Wolters Kluwer leveraged its vast data set based on its 2 million physician users to look at search teams, and that collaboration enabled health systems to predict COVID outbreaks two to three weeks in advance, according to Julie Frey, director of product strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health.
The two companies decided to take that collaboration further to identify other use cases to harness Wolters Kluwer’s real-time clinical search data to provide clinicians and health system executives with critical insights.
Wolters Kluwer developed UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support...