Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced plans to acquire UpToDate, a leading evidence-based electronic clinical information resource. This acquisition is projected to strengthen WK Health's portfolio in the growing point of care and electronic medical record markets by expanding its product and services offerings. While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, the transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2008 pending regulatory approval.
UpToDate collaborates with about 3,800 physician experts, who use their clinical experience and review of the latest research to create recommendations on how to diagnose and treat thousands of conditions in 13 medical specialties. Nearly 320,000 clinicians in 130 countries, thousands of patients and the majority of academic medical centers in the US look to UpToDate for clinical guidance, practice guidelines, peer-reviewed articles, photographs, and X-ray illustrations.
Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, UpToDate specialises in physician-driven products designed to improve healthcare at the point of care and integrate smoothly into Electronic Medical Records. Accessible through the web, desktop and PDA, UpToDate is an electronic information resource designed to provide clinicians with practical and reliable answers to clinical questions at the point of care. All of UpToDate's content is original material written by a faculty of more than 3,800 authors who are practicing physicians and leading experts in their specialties.
