Health care artificial intelligence company Suki is teaming up with Wolters Kluwer Health to bring evidence-based clinical decision support directly into physicians' existing workflows—at the point of care. Today, the two companies are launching Ask, a clinical decision support tool powered by Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate Expert AI. Available within the Suki for Clinicians application, Ask allows physicians to retrieve patient information and consult medical evidence without switching between applications.
The tool combines UpToDate—the popular medical reference resource used by more than 3 million clinicians worldwide—with the patient-specific context available through Suki's ambient clinical intelligence platform. The integration marks the first use of Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate Expert AI application programming interface (API) by an external technology partner. Suki founder and CEO Punit Soni told Newsweek that his team seeks out "the best in the market" when they want to “plug in" rather than building capabilities from scratch.
UpToDate fit their bill for Ask, with over three decades of experience providing evidence-based clinical guidelines. Consider a 78-year-old patient with hypertension and diabetes who arrives at a physician's office complaining of dizziness. The physician might want to consult the latest clinical guidance on a potential diagnosis.
Traditionally, Soni said, that could mean searching a separate medical reference platform, reviewing recommendations and manually determining how they apply to the patient's medications, medical history and other risk factors. Ask is designed to bring those steps together. Because Suki can access relevant patient information from the EHR, clinicians can ask for clinical guidance without having to reenter the patient's history.
The system combines that context with information from UpToDate, whose evidence base is maintained by more than 7,600 physician authors, editors and peer reviewers. Clinicians can also ask straightforward questions about the patient, including their most recent A1C result, current medications or documented allergies. Questions can be spoken aloud or typed, although responses are currently text-based.
The answers remain available in Suki for Clinicians after the encounter and include citations to supporting clinical evidence when drawing on UpToDate, a spokesperson for Suki told Newsweek. Unlike general-purpose AI models that may generate responses from a broad range of sources, UpToDate says that Expert AI grounds its clinical answers exclusively in the company's proprietary, physician-reviewed content. In early evaluations, clinicians preferred responses incorporating Suki-supplied patient context over those without it 83 percent of the time, according to a joint news release shared with Newsweek.
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