HealthMarch 26, 2025

UpToDate — Clinical decision support for life sciences

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When you need answers to point-of-care questions.

Life Sciences professionals around the world turn to UpToDate® as the one trusted reference for answers even when the evidence isn’t clear

A view of all the comprehensive information you need is within reach. Let UpToDate help your organization make better business decisions, develop drugs more efficiently, and optimize commercialization plans.

Consulting multiple vendors can be confusing. UptoDate brings together expertise from global healthcare experts across 25 specialties all in one place.

The wrong decision can be costly and impact the quality of your drug development research. UpToDate synthesizes clinical expertise from more than 7,400 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to provide graded recommendations in a succinct, searchable format.

UpToDate is widely used among research and development staff within Life Sciences organizations. Regardless of your organization’s areas of clinical focus, UpToDate offers valuable insights for key initiatives, ranging from your clinical trials work to your pharmacovigilance efforts.

As different disease states come up, I can refer to the latest information on the disease and currently accepted treatments.
Director, patient safety, pharmacovigilance

Check out a few things you can accomplish with UpToDate

Research and development

Quickly access the underlying evidence, including care guidelines and research studies, used to develop best practices and recommendations. For instance, easily explore new developments in different therapeutic areas by searching for information on safety, positioning, and uses of drugs by therapeutic area.

Pharmacovigilance

Research adverse reactions to understand which are related to specific therapies. Additionally, use UpToDate for guidance on current treatment that is most effective with less side effect risks.

Market intelligence

Track competitor drugs, including off-label uses supported by clinicians and the medical literature or access detailed background information with real-time updates on rapidly evolving fields.

When choosing effective treatment options, consulting UpToDate helps me to provide current treatment that is most effective, with less side effect risks.
Associate medical director, occupational medicine

A view of all the comprehensive information you need is within reach. Let UpToDate serve as a valuable catalyst for your Life Sciences research.

The evidence-based clinical and drug information contained in UpToDate is continuously updated, but it is not merely an aggregation and report on the latest research. UpToDate presents a thorough synthesis of the evidence along with graded recommendations for action at the point of care.

UpToDate can be especially effective when deployed across your entire organization, helping to ensure your clinical leaders, research and development staff, and other key teams have access to the same information, whenever and wherever it’s needed.

  • 82% of users in Life Sciences organizations agree UpToDate helps their organization make better business decisions*
  • 87% agree UpToDate helps them perform their job more effectively*
  • 84% of users in Life Sciences organizations agree UpToDate saves them time1
  • 78% agree UpToDate provides valuable information not available from other resources

* UpToDate user survey, December 2022, N=89

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