Frost & Sullivan Radar ranks Wolters Kluwer as a top 20 AI innovation leader in healthcare IT

A Global Powerhouse for AI in Healthcare

Frost & Sullivan forecasts Wolters Kluwer will expand its AI-enabled healthcare IT footprint, “working closely with large health systems, government agencies, and leading start-ups from Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia in the next 2 to 3 years.” Frost sees growth from “healthcare stakeholders with the need and incentive to embrace full-fledged AI to improve clinical efficacy, augment financial performance, and streamline operational agility.”

“AI is deeply woven into the Wolters Kluwer DNA and it fully spans our Health solutions,” commented Jean-Claude Saghbini, Chief Technology Officer, Wolters Kluwer, Health. “The Frost Radar report validates years of effort and investment building a world-class AI ecosystem with a unique combination of data scientists, clinicians, and product teams that can make a meaningful impact on healthcare.”

Indicators of this AI innovation in Health solutions include:

• Adaptive learning for next-generation doctors and nurses: Tomorrow’s clinicians get a strong start in medical and nursing education with adaptive learning powered by AI that optimizes student testing skills, remediation and performance in high-stakes USMLE or NCLEX exams with Firecracker® and PrepU®.
• Earlier intervention when it matters most: Minutes can be the difference between life and death for patients with hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) like sepsis or C.difficile. AI technology in Sentri7® and POCAdvisor is predicting infections faster so patients get every fighting chance.
• Unlocking hidden insights: Critical patient information lost in physician notes is extracted and mapped by Health Language® clinical natural language processing (cNLP) for better-informed care and AI is eliminating barriers between siloed data across healthcare systems.
• Globalizing drug data: AI is being developed to dramatically accelerate and automate the mapping of highly variable drug data from countries around the world to Medi-Span’s trusted data to reduce medication errors, adverse drug events, and unnecessary alerts.

Other rapid response innovations in clinical content and data science:

• Wolters Kluwer leveraged conversational patient education from UpToDate® in a chatbot and developed Emmi Engage multimedia patient programs to help hospitals answer common questions about coronavirus. To help track the pandemic, a global interactive map visualizes spikes in frontline clinician searches on COVID-19 clinical topics at the point of care.

To learn more, download the Frost Radar report: Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare IT, Global, 2020.