{"id":325803,"date":"2026-03-06T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:54:21","slug":"microsoft-uptodate-partner-to-give-clinicians-evidence-backed-treatment-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/325803\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, UpToDate partner to give clinicians evidence-backed treatment recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">Microsoft is partnering with a new company in an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/stories\/2026\/03\/02\/microsoft-strategy-healthcare-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">double down<\/a> on its healthcare ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">Professional software provider Wolters Kluwer Health\u2019s clinical decision support tool, UpToDate, is integrating with Microsoft\u2019s Dragon Copilot AI clinical assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Teams, the two companies announced today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">UpToDate is an over 30-year-old subscription-based content library full of peer-reviewed clinical information and recommendations for 13,000+ healthcare topics across 25 specialties, all written exclusively for UpToDate by physicians. It\u2019s used as a reference tool in more than 50,000 institutional sites worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">The collaboration will allow Dragon to cite and link back to UpToDate\u2019s content when guiding its more than 600,000 users, Hadas Bitran, partner general manager of health and life sciences AI services at Microsoft, told Healthcare Brew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">\u201cThis integration allows us to provide information [and] answers to clinicians within their workflow from a trusted source,\u201d Bitran said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">The deets. Essentially, UpToDate\u2019s content library will be \u201cplugged in\u201d to Microsoft\u2019s system, Yaw Fellin, SVP and general manager of UpToDate clinical decision support and provider solutions, told Healthcare Brew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">The information gathered by Microsoft\u2019s AI through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/stories\/what-are-ai-scribes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ambient listening and scribing features<\/a> will be combined with the information in UpToDate\u2019s library to create custom recommendations for patient care, all without leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/stories\/2026\/02\/18\/microsoft-health-vps-ai-development-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft ecosystem<\/a>, said Fellin, who described the move as a response to customer demand.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate the healthcare industry<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-subscribe\">Healthcare Brew covers pharmaceutical developments, health startups, the latest tech, and how it impacts hospitals and providers to keep administrators and providers informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">\u201cWe might have a recommendation on what\u2019s the best way to treat hypertension, but if you know from the ambient experience that the patient has had elevated blood pressure for the last week or month or if you know that the patient happens to be pregnant\u2026what you\u2019re going to get is a much more sophisticated, rich set of recommendations,\u201d Fellin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">This collaboration is the latest step in Wolters Kluwer Health\u2019s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/02\/uptodate-artificial-intelligence-openevidence-clinical-decision-chatbot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">remain a go-to physician resource<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/stories\/2026\/02\/19\/shadow-ai-healthcare-settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">era of AI search<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">In September, Wolters Kluwer Health announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/ai-and-machine-learning\/wolters-kluwer-rolls-out-gen-ai-version-uptodate-clinical-decision-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduction<\/a> of its own generative AI, UpToDate Expert AI, trained exclusively on UpToDate\u2019s content. It provides a similar service as other healthcare-focused generative AI search tools, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/14\/openevidence-chatgpt-doctors-learns-verified-medical-journals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OpenEvidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">But whereas other tools train their bots directly on peer-reviewed literature or on information from the internet, UpToDate\u2019s generative AI is trained on its library of expert-written clinical recommendations based on peer-reviewed literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">This AI is not being used in the Microsoft deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-5791265-8 bdIWsa\">UpToDate also has a partnership with ambient note-taking software <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-brew.com\/resources\/how-abridge-uses-generative-ai-to-reduce-clinician-burnout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abridge<\/a>, announced in October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is partnering with a new company in an effort to double down on its healthcare ambitions. 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