An UpToDate practice with UpToDate
August 09, 2021

An UpToDate practice with UpToDate

George DeMaagd, PharmD.,BCPS | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with UpToDate

We are a College of Pharmacy (Pharm.D Program) we need to provide students, faculty and preceptors with the latest in medical and pharmacy data. Our whole organization uses this tool and it provides a fingertip resource and guides for patient care, teaching in the classroom and experiential training (clinical clerkships).
  • Identify new clinical data for both procedures and drug use
  • Identify approved and unapproved uses of medications
  • Provides detail on new medications and their role in therapy
  • The app is sometimes a bit hard to use
  • Offering a resource for patient care is a positive return on investment
  • An UpToDate drug resource is a positive return on investment
  • An UpToDate clinical disease resource is a positive return on investment
UpToDate offers a much more comprehensive tool when compared with Epocrates. Although both provide good drug references UpToDate goes far beyond the Epocrates tool in terms of clinical disease diagnostic data.

Do you think UpToDate delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with UpToDate's feature set?

Yes

Did UpToDate live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of UpToDate go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy UpToDate again?

Yes

  • On patient rounds (working with the medical team and providing them updates on various therapies
  • Answering drug information questions (MDs questions that may need further review and response)
  • Updating lecture material (ensuring upToDate data)
  • Patient education utility (ensuring appropriate and up to date patient information)
  • Not useful for a comprehensive clinical review e.g. writing a paper, but it is not designed for that function

UpToDate Feature Ratings

Real-time eligibility verification
5
Coding
5
Claims management
6
Patient billing
4
Financial Reporting
5
Rule-based scheduling
Not Rated
Automated patient check-in
Not Rated
Automated appointment reminders
Not Rated
Multi-location support
Not Rated
Calendar interface
4
Charting / document management
Not Rated
Templates
Not Rated
E-prescribing
Not Rated
Fax integration
Not Rated
Patient portal
Not Rated
Mobile/tablet support
Not Rated
Speech recognition
Not Rated
Integration with other EMR and PM systems
Not Rated
Customization
Not Rated
Workflow automation
Not Rated
Role-based permission levels
1
Data backups and redundancy
3
HIPAA compliance
3
Local mode / networking failsafe
Not Rated
Task tracking
4
Specialty-specific workflows
3
Multi-office / multi-physician capabilities
7