UPTODATE EXPERT AI
UpToDate and Expert AI support clinical decisions with trusted evidence
UpToDate is Wolters Kluwer’s clinical decision support solution, with content across more than 25 specialties and subspecialties. Alongside its expert-authored, reviewed knowledge base, UpToDate now offers Expert AI, adding a conversational way for clinicians to explore and verify medical evidence. [1, 2, 17]
Expert AI is a major new capability in UpToDate
Expert AI adds a generative AI experience to UpToDate, synthesizing reviewed medical content into answers to clinicians’ questions. Its value lies in faster access to relevant evidence, with source links that users can check and explore. [17, 19]
- Ask naturally and receive focused answers: Clinicians can enter a complete professional question. Concise, structured responses highlight important considerations and help identify areas for deeper review. [19]
- Understand context and reasoning: Expert AI states assumptions and explains its rationale, helping clinicians understand why a factor matters. Users can add context to make the response more relevant to the question being explored. [18, 19]
- Verify answers against UpToDate content: Citations and direct topic links connect responses to their sources. Supporting content can be opened within the search interface, making evidence easier to review before professional discussion or application. [17]
- Explore further through follow-up questions: Clinicians can clarify a point, add a relevant factor, or investigate related options. Suggested follow-up questions support a connected dialogue and deeper exploration of the topic. [19]
- Use AI grounded in expert-reviewed knowledge: UpToDate content provides the information foundation. Clinical experts help develop evaluation criteria and refine response generation, connecting AI synthesis with regularly updated medical knowledge. [2, 18]
- Review medication information relevant to the question: A side panel can display drug monographs and related information from UpToDate and Lexidrug, supporting further review of dosing, warnings, and medication considerations. [17]
- Access support on mobile devices: Expert AI is accessible through web and mobile experiences, with a dedicated app for enterprise users. Voice input on supported interfaces makes asking questions more convenient. [17, 20]
Features that support everyday clinical practice
- Find relevant information quickly: Search by disease, symptom, laboratory abnormality, procedure, or drug. Topic outlines and result filters provide direct access to relevant sections during consultations, ward rounds, and case discussions. [3]
- Understand the basis for recommendations: Experts author, peer-review, and update content through a multistep process. Graded recommendations, supporting references, and named authors help clinicians assess the scientific basis of management options. [2]
- Use tools within the clinical topic: Tables, management algorithms, and medical calculators support assessment, use of clinical scores, and interpretation. Clinicians can consult guidance and relevant tools within the same reference resource. [4, 16]
- Connect treatment guidance with drug information: Drug names link to monographs, while interaction analysis tools provide further support when considering treatment, particularly for patients taking multiple medications. [5]
- Keep up with important practice developments: “What’s New” summarizes developments by specialty; “Practice Changing Updates” highlights information that may change clinical practice. These sections help clinicians follow relevant changes alongside their daily workload. [4]
- Support patient communication: Accessible patient education materials help clinicians explain conditions and treatments, provide reading materials, and discuss care choices with patients. [4, 16]
- Access information flexibly and support ongoing learning: Browser and mobile app access bring the resource to clinicians’ working locations. CME/CPD accrual now extends to Expert AI, with learning credit and certificates available under the applicable program and accrediting organization’s requirements. [6, 7, 22]
Value for hospitals
- A shared clinical reference: Teams can discuss clinical questions using the same reviewed UpToDate knowledge base. Expert AI adds a conversational route to that content, supporting convenient evidence exploration and a consistent information foundation across departments. [1, 18]
- Education connected to daily work: Hospitals can combine UpToDate topics with Expert AI dialogue in case discussions and junior clinician supervision. Learners can practice asking questions, adding context, examining rationale, and verifying sources to understand the evidence behind an answer. [3, 4, 18]
- Convenient access from electronic health records: Integration options allow access to UpToDate content within EHR workflows, reducing the need to switch between systems. Implementation is tailored to the hospital’s systems and configuration. [8]
- Insights to guide education and resource use: UpToDate Enterprise Edition analytics show utilization, referenced topics, and trends by role or specialty. Hospital leaders can use these usage insights to identify support needs, plan education, and assess how the purchased resource is being used. [9]
- A clear basis for AI adoption and evaluation: Traceable content, reasoning, and citations give hospitals a verifiable foundation for user training, professional discussion, and internal evaluation of AI for medical reference and knowledge updating. [18]
Contact us to explore UpToDate with Expert AI and discuss a suitable solution for your hospital.
Official Wolters Kluwer references
[1] UpToDate for hospitals
[2] Expert authorship and editorial review
[3] Searching and navigating UpToDate
[4] Clinical tools and clinical updates
[5] Drug reference content and interaction tools in UpToDate
[6] Mobile access to UpToDate
[7] Earning and redeeming CME
[8] Electronic health record integration
[9] UpToDate Enterprise Edition analytics
[16] Clinical tools and patient education for physicians
[17] UpToDate Expert AI and latest features
[18] The UpToDate Clinical Intelligence Model
[19] Expert AI value for physicians
[20] UpToDate and Expert AI mobile apps
[21] Terms and regional scope of Expert AI use
[22] CME CPD and learning credit with Expert AI
[2] Expert authorship and editorial review
[3] Searching and navigating UpToDate
[4] Clinical tools and clinical updates
[5] Drug reference content and interaction tools in UpToDate
[6] Mobile access to UpToDate
[7] Earning and redeeming CME
[8] Electronic health record integration
[9] UpToDate Enterprise Edition analytics
[16] Clinical tools and patient education for physicians
[17] UpToDate Expert AI and latest features
[18] The UpToDate Clinical Intelligence Model
[19] Expert AI value for physicians
[20] UpToDate and Expert AI mobile apps
[21] Terms and regional scope of Expert AI use
[22] CME CPD and learning credit with Expert AI
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