Wolters Kluwer and Cloudnine Hospitals come together to provide effective clinical decision through UpToDate

Wolters Kluwer, Health in association with Cloudnine Hospitals to integrate its clinical decision support (CDS) resource, UpToDate to enhance patient care and quality throughout its group.

Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate will now be available to Cloudnine Group of Hospitals across geographies in India.

UpToDate, a clinical decision support resource, which leverages evidence-based content to enable improved patient outcomes and quality care.

Cloudnine Hospital selected UpToDate for its Pathways, which provide interactive guidance along critical decision points, personalised for each patient.

UpToDate Pathways will also be used in the development of local clinical pathways that are specific to the hospital and designed to improve quality performance metrics through the adoption of evidence-based medicine. UpToDate is reportedly used by over 1.9 million clinicians around the world – is the “only clinical decision support resource associated with improved patient outcomes and hospital performance.”

“We are honored to extend our support to Cloudnine Hospitals in their endeavor of providing the best clinical outcomes for every patient, commented Harish Ramachandran, Country Head for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer- Health. “Their profound commitment of bringing standardisation and quality care with UpToDate Advanced resonates with our values and mission to provide evidence-based clinical decision support in the clinical set-up for standardised and high-quality care throughout a patient’s care journey”, he added.

Raviganesh Venkataraman, CEO, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals said, “Customer safety is our priority and innovation has always been core to our business. As more of the population ages, life expectancy increases, and as the nursing shortage continues, new age medical technologies are becoming more crucial for continued medical care. Thus, integrating UpToDate will help support the clinicians to drive consistent high-quality care, minimise errors and improve hospital efficiency to provide seamless maternity services.”

Maternal and peadiatric care are one of the topmost priorities in India and digital solutions are a way to help healthcare practitioners to provide best medical practices for quality care to women and children. As the first mover and pioneer in this sector, Cloudnine has been innovating constantly to handle high-risk pregnancies and critical cases. With the adoption of UpToDate, they intend to improve healthcare delivery and provide interactive guidance along with critical decision points which is personalised for each patient.

The technological innovation allows clinicians to develop a patient-specific pathway for every patient. CDS systems have become the need of the hour especially with the COVID-19 outbreak as it provides accurate and reliable information to healthcare professionals for the treatment of patients with different ailments.