Wolters Kluwer Health Partners With Epic to Integrate Clinical Content Solutions Into EHR Workflows

The offering is designed for safety-net healthcare organizations, including rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), state hospitals, tribal healthcare organizations, and small ambulatory practices.

Wolters Kluwer Health has partnered with Epic to offer an integrated suite combining UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education directly within Epic electronic health record (EHR) workflows. The offering is designed for safety-net healthcare organizations, including rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), state hospitals, tribal healthcare organizations, and small ambulatory practices.

The collaboration brings together three clinical decision support and medication safety solutions into a single procurement, implementation, and support model. According to the company, the native integration within Epic eliminates the need for standalone software testing and validation, reducing the workload for clinical informatics and IT teams.

The combined solution also establishes a single cost center for medication intelligence, evidence-based clinical decision support, and patient education resources.

The integrated offering includes UpToDate Lexidrug, which provides evidence-based drug referential content and clinical consult guidance within prescribing workflows to support medication prescribing, dosing, and administration decisions.

Medi-Span serves as the medication data foundation, screening medication orders in real time for drug-drug interactions, dose range appropriateness, and duplicate therapy alerts to help prevent adverse drug events.

The package also includes UpToDate Patient Education, which offers individualized, multilingual patient education materials and discharge instructions intended to support medication adherence and care transitions.

According to Wolters Kluwer Health, the solutions are integrated natively into existing Epic environments, allowing healthcare organizations to avoid extensive local IT testing, validation processes, and ongoing maintenance associated with standalone third-party software deployments.

The collaboration is intended to address financial and administrative challenges faced by rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), tribal healthcare providers, community health systems, and other resource-constrained organizations when deploying clinical decision support platforms.

“Healthcare organizations serving rural and underserved populations need access to the same evidence-based resources used across the broader healthcare ecosystem, but often face significant financial and operational barriers,” said Yaw Fellin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Decision Support and Provider Solutions at Wolters Kluwer Health.

“The result is faster onboarding, reduced administrative complexity and a single cost center for trusted solutions,” Fellin added.

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