March 2025
Published: 06 Mar 2025
Author: Precedence Research
Wolters Kluwer Health partners with Microsoft Copilot Studio to strengthen artificial intelligence in clinical decision support. Specifically, the collaboration will explore how generative AI (GenAI) could help provide real-time, patient-specific evidence-based insights at the point of care will thus transform how clinicians access critical medical information. It is a Microsoft healthcare agent service platform that enables healthcare technology developers to develop and deploy AI-based healthcare solutions. With the integration of UpToDate into this service, both companies raise the bar in AI-driven clinical decision support.
Professionals now have seamless access to credible medical content in their daily workflow. Committed by Greg Samios, President and CEO, of Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health, this project will, according to him, mean real-time access to trustable, evidence-based answers for organizations that will save time on patient visits by reducing administrative overhead.
Trusted by over three million clinicians worldwide, UpToDate has been integrated with Microsoft Copilot Studio's healthcare agent service, which helps streamline clinical workflows and improve patient care outcomes. This allows the organizations to create generative AI-powered agents using a comprehensive set of healthcare-specific features such as reusable templates, healthcare intelligence pre-built from credible databases, extensibility via plugins and enhanced safeguard mechanisms for compliance with healthcare regulations and ethical AI standards. By embedding UpToDate content into this ecosystem, Microsoft and Wolters Kluwer guarantee that clinicians can access accurate, evidence-based guidance without time-consuming searches and manual data entry. The healthcare agent service offered by Microsoft Copilot Studio enables the healthcare organization to create its own AI agents, which will comply with healthcare regulations and ethical AI standards.
Microsoft and Wolters Kluwer are uniting toward the development and deployment of AI-based solutions for clinical decision-making. Their first joint undertaking involves the real-time GenAI content integration from UpTo-Date into Microsoft Dragon Copilot AI-cum-voice recognition device for purposes of clinical documentation. This integration should advance ambient and voice-enabled clinical workflows to make it more convenient for clinicians to access relevant medical knowledge instead of requiring a two-step documentation process while documenting patient interactions. The long-term vision for collaboration will create completely new healthcare workflows: less administration, improved accuracy, smarter hospitals, empowered healthcare organizations, and alignment with the vast majority of existing EHRs. The personalized AI agents would give hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers an added performance advantage through seamless data exchange and improved interoperability in this seamless integration. It assures the two partners' requirements and aspirations towards transparency, accuracy, and ethical usage of AI in every aspect of the integration process.
The integration of UpToDate into Microsoft's health agent is a watershed moment in AI-powered clinical decision support wherein Wolters Kluwer and Microsoft collaborated. The combination of this trusted medical content and generative AI will provide clinicians with the best possible support at the point of care. The resulting transformation of the delivery of medical knowledge and the use of that knowledge in real-world clinical settings will bring about care that is more efficient, effective, and patient-centered. This partnership envisions extending the AI capabilities and testing new use cases, leading to a future wherein AI-assisted decision support becomes a necessary weapon in the armamentarium of clinicians.
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