UpToDate acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer Health announced it intends to acquire UpToDate.  According to Arvind Subramanian, President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions, Kluwer will combine their experience in developing point of care decision support tools with UpToDate’s best-of-breed offerings in content and search, to develop robust EMR integration tools, expand their existing offerings and accelerate UpToDate’s global expansion. With the acquisition, Wolters Kluwer Health plans to further expand UptoDate’s specialty areas to cover neurology, immunology and other medical fields.