Wolters Kluwer is launching a comprehensive toolkit for opioid taskforces in healthcare systems and pharmacy chains to address clinical variability in opioid-related pain therapy care and stem the tide of the opioid epidemic. With over 130 people dying from opioid overdoses every day, health systems around the United States are implementing cross-functional opioid task force teams to reduce overdoses, treat dependence and addiction, and prevent iatrogenic opioid use disorder that may start
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Wolters Kluwer Harnesses AI to Bridge Data in EHRs to Speed Accuracy of HAIs
With healthcare M&A at an all-time high, many hospitals and health systems are feeling interoperability pains following mergers. Wolters Kluwer is now harnessing AI to bridge data in electronic health records (EHRs) and disparate systems, such as lab results, to improve how organizations identify and report hospital-acquired infections.Real World Data Integration Challenges for ProvidersIntegrating data from disparate EHRs across health systems continues to be a largely manual process. But
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Wolters Kluwer Integrates ProVation Order Sets with Epic EHR
Wolters Kluwer announced ProVation Order Sets integration with Epic EHR to support the importing and exporting of information to streamline and optimize order set management. This integration enables healthcare providers to streamline labor-intensive governance processes, optimize order set management and support existing order sets with evidence-based clinical content.ProVation Order Sets integration leverages new order set import functionality to quickly and easily transfer Panels, Smart
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Wolters Kluwer to Acquire Emmi for $175M
Wolters Kluwer Health announced it will acquire Emmi Solutions (Emmi), a providers of patient engagement solutions, for $170 million in cash to expand its market share in the patient engagement market. For Wolters Kluwer Health, Emmi’s offerings are a natural extension to its existing Clinical Solutions portfolio, in particular to UpToDate in decision support and Lexicomp and Medi-Span in drug information.Founded in 2002, Emmi offers an enterprise-wide, integrated and multi-media patient
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