Nayara Gerez, Product Specialist Customer Success Specialist at Wolters Kluwer Health
Clinical effectiveness solutions from Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of solutions and information for the healthcare industry, has a new look and is even more aligned. The changes aim to improve the user experience and are part of the company's strategy to provide harmonized content based on evidence and contextualized information, with the same language, to serve the different teams - nurses, pharmacists, doctors - within a health institution. The company's objectives are to standardize health care, improve the quality of care and reduce the rates of medical errors and unwanted variability in care.
“Compliance is the word that best explains our purpose with these changes. It's more than visual. We seek compliance and harmonization at all levels and for all professionals. Today we are able to work with the needs and provide much of what a health institution needs in terms of health and evidence-based medicine that allows it to provide the best care, improve clinical effectiveness and reduce the variability of care”, explains Nayara. Gerez, Product Specialist Customer Success Specialist at Wolters Kluwer Health.
With the modernization of the interface, the Update®, evidence-based clinical decision support solution, and Lexicomp®, a solution that provides care teams with information related to drug therapies. This means that regardless of the area in which the professional works, he will have access to information that complements each other, something that directly contributes to the standardization of clinical decision support.
The use of this type of solution is essential for the daily routine of health institutions that value the quality of patient care. Both Uptodate® and Lexicomp® add intelligence to the workflow of teams that are in direct contact with the patient. In addition to the new interface, Uptodate® is also even more personalized and can be customized according to the professional's history and profile. It is possible to configure to receive alerts, favorite content, view access history and view on the home page if any content that you access frequently has been updated, among other features that speed up and facilitate the day to day of the health professional to keep up to date. Another important differential is that the user can not only verify their accesses, which are registered as credits/hours that can become certificates of continuing education, which prove the update in the specialties on which they accessed content.
In addition, institutions that have Uptodate Advanced® – which provides 60 interactive protocols (Pathways) covering health conditions in which care variability is already known – will also experience the same interface in both UpToDate® Pathways and Lab Interpretation. ™.
Clinical effectiveness solutions from Wolters Kluwer Health
UpToDate, the world's most used clinical decision support resource, helps embed trusted content into workflows and enables healthcare professionals to adopt more efficient approaches to care. More than 80 studies link improvements in patient care and hospital performance to widespread use of UpToDate. There are 6,700 clinical experts who continuously maintain and publish updates, more than 250,000 researches per year, from 11,000 clinical topics, 465,000 references and 430 researched and reviewed articles.
On the other hand, Lexicomp, which can help institutions reduce the rates of medical errors due to medication, provides care teams with information related to medications that can be quickly accessed when questions arise about drug therapy. Contains additional content and resources to support medication decisions and administration, such as information regarding dose, indication for use, interactions, toxicology, IV compatibilities, comparisons of up to four medications, pregnancy and lactation considerations, and medications associated with better results and even information for patients in Portuguese. Complete information is available on more than 2,500 drugs, covering 99% of the top 300 drugs according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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