UpToDate Reminder

Last month, WellStar Health System purchased a System subscription to UpToDate®, the Internet-based clinical decision support system which includes CME credit. All Medical Staff members (physicians and advanced practitioners) are able to access UpToDate® from the Physician Portal.  

If you currently have your own individual subscription, do not cancel your subscription until you transfer your CME credits to your new account. Unclaimed CME credits will not be available for processing once your individual subscription has been canceled. For assistance on how to merge your accounts, cancel your individual subscription and get a refund for unused months, please call UpToDate's Customer Service Department at 1-800-998-6374. You will also receive information from Petra Young, Director of CME and Library Services, explaining how to merge your accounts.

UpToDate includes original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 4,400 leading physicians. As a member of the WellStar Medical Staff, you can access:
·       More than 8,300 topics in 17 specialties, including Hospital Medicine
·       Graded treatment recommendations
·       Link to full text for referenced articles (provided your institution subscribes to a service that 
        allows this access)
·       Drug database and drug interactions program (in partnership with Lexi-Comp®)
·       Medical calculators
·       What’s New (summary of important new findings by specialty)
·       Practice Changing Updates
·       Patient education materials

UpToDate is used by more than 400,000 clinicians in 147 countries. In the United States, nearly 90 percent of major teaching hospitals and 1,600 community hospitals subscribe to UpToDate. The widespread use of UpToDate has had a profound impact on patient care and positively impacts thousands of decisions made by clinicians every day.

Click on the following links for instructions for accessing UpToDate, linking to full-text journal articles from UpToDate and merging your UpToDate CME/CE accounts. These documents are also available by going to the Physician Portal > Home/Lib/CME tab > Physician Communication > System.