Wolters Kluwer Joins Healthcare Services Platform Consortium to Advance HIT Interoperability Roadmap and Improve Patient Care

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#HSPC—Wolters
Kluwer, Health announced today that it will collaborate with the
Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) to accelerate the
non-profit’s mission of solving the interoperability challenge in
healthcare. A focal point of current industry initiatives, the
advancement of IT standards and interoperable frameworks holds the keys
to unlocking the full potential of artificial intelligence, patient
information and digital knowledge resources for better care delivery.

A leading industry collaborative, HSPC
brings together providers, vendors and public and private stakeholders
to tackle barriers to meaningful exchange of health information. Since
2013, the organization has worked to speed the realization of
healthcare’s big data promise through an open marketplace of
interoperable applications, content and services designed to shorten
development cycles for next-generation solutions. Clinical and
informatics experts with Wolters Kluwer, Health will join more than 270
HSPC contributors to help healthcare organizations align their IT
strategy and investment with broader initiatives focused on better care
coordination, clinical pathways and patient experience.

“HSPC is committed to resetting healthcare’s costly quest for
interoperability through provider-level collaboration that draws from a
shared platform community that help promote innovation,” said Oscar
Diaz, CEO with HSPC. “Our work with Wolters Kluwer moves us one step
closer to achieving our mission of improving health outcomes and quality
through this vibrant, open ecosystem.”

The consortium will benefit from the Wolters Kluwer’s experience in
terminology and knowledge based management solutions and clinical
expertise to help the HSPC community deliver capabilities that unlock
data silos and enable complete, accurate real-time and on demand access
to healthcare information for reliable analytics, decision support and
workflow based applications.

“Interoperability remains one of healthcare’s greatest opportunities and
challenges and pioneering new solutions will take industry-wide
collaboration,” said Diana Nole, CEO, Wolters Kluwer, Health. “We hope
that by working together with the HSPC community, we can help healthcare
extract greater value from its immense data assets to achieve increased
clinical effectiveness by improving patient outcomes while driving down
unsustainable healthcare costs.”

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. (AEX: WKL) is a global provider of professional
information, software solutions, and services for physicians, nurses,
accountants, lawyers, tax specialists, and finance, audit, compliance,
and regulatory sectors.

The company provides expert solutions – a combination of deep domain
knowledge with specialized technology and services – that help
professionals navigate change, solve complex problems, and deliver
impact in their respective fields.

Headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer
holds market-leading positions in 40 countries globally, represents
customers across 180 countries and employs 19,000 people worldwide. In
2017, it reported annual revenues of €4.4 billion.

Wolters Kluwer provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based
solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers and students
with advanced clinical decision support, learning and research and
clinical intelligence. For more information about our solutions, visit http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com and
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Contacts

Media
Ann Joyal
VP, Global Communications, Health
Division
Wolters Kluwer
781 392 3831
ann.joyal@wolterskluwer.com