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UpToDate Expert AI

by Wolters Kluwer  ·  NL

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Generative AI version of UpToDate that answers only from UpToDate's expert-authored library. Included in UpToDate Pro Plus.

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At a glance

Pricing
July 2026 figure from search summaries of vendor and review sites. The official page was not read. Trainees $219 per year with proof.
HIPAA
Not disclosed
SOC 2
Not disclosed
EHRs
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Founded
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HQ
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Independent score  ·  By our public rubric

13/100Tracked
How it’s computed →
  • Regulatory & Compliance
    0/28

    No FDA clearance listed

  • Clinical Integration
    0/26

    No EHR integrations listed

  • Evidence Strength
    0/30

    No peer-reviewed coverage

  • Vendor & Market
    12/18

    Top-tier funding and adoption

  • Sentiment & Transparency
    2.5/11.5

    Prices listed publicly

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Regulatory & Compliance

  • FDA clearance0/18

    No FDA clearance listed

  • HIPAA / SOC2 / BAA0/10

    No public HIPAA/SOC2/BAA attestation

Clinical Integration

  • EHR integrations (count)0/14

    No EHR integrations listed

  • Top-3 EHR coverage (Epic / Oracle / Athena)0/8

    None of the top-3 EHRs covered

  • Bidirectional write-back0/4

    No bidirectional write-back documented

Evidence Strength

  • Peer-reviewed papers0/21

    No peer-reviewed coverage

  • RCT / meta-analysis / systematic review0/9

    No RCT, meta-analysis, or systematic review

Vendor & Market

  • Funding & adoption signal12/12

    Top-tier funding and adoption

  • Years in market0/6

    Founded year not recorded

Sentiment & Transparency

  • Clinician sentiment (Reddit)0/9

    No clinician sentiment data available

  • Pricing transparency3/3

    Prices listed publicly

Scored October 15, 2026 · Public scoring method v1.1.0

Bottom line  ·  Best institutional CDS standard

The global institutional CDS reference, now with grounded generative Q&A.

$559/year individual or institutional licensing. Awards CME credit for queries (March 2026). Wolters Kluwer.

Editorial review  ·  By MedAI Verdict

Bottom line

UpToDate Expert AI is the generative-AI layer of UpToDate from Wolters Kluwer Health. It answers questions using only UpToDate's expert-written content and does not draw on the open web. Individual UpToDate costs $579 a year as of July 2026, and the Pro Plus tier that includes Expert AI starts at $699 a year in the US and Canada. It suits a clinician who already trusts UpToDate and wants faster lookup inside it. Its answers come from one editorial library, so it does not cite journals beyond UpToDate.

What is UpToDate Expert AI and who sells it?

Wolters Kluwer Health sells it. UpToDate is Wolters Kluwer's clinical decision support brand, and the parent, Wolters Kluwer N.V., is based in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands and listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Fierce Healthcare described Expert AI at launch as a generative-AI version of UpToDate grounded in UpToDate's own content. It launched in early October 2025 to select Enterprise customers, with wider availability from the fourth quarter of 2025 (Newsweek).

What does it do?

The system answers from the UpToDate library only, closed off from the web. Validated AI drug dosing had been added by August 2026, according to a Wolters Kluwer release. In that release the company reports about 2,500 US hospitals and health systems using Expert AI, plus more than 230 international pilot sites in 36 countries. Those figures are the vendor's.

What does it cost?

Listings of vendor and review-site pricing give $579 a year for an individual UpToDate subscription (July 2026) and $699 a year for UpToDate Pro Plus, which includes Expert AI, in the US and Canada. Trainees pay $219 a year with proof of status. Enterprise pricing is negotiated.

What does the evidence say?

No peer-reviewed accuracy study of Expert AI is published. The vendor says a closed corpus eliminates hallucination. Coverage of early testing, relayed through vendor press, names latency as the main complaint. HIPAA, BAA and SOC 2 documents are not public. No FDA status is listed, and a search of FDA's device database under Wolters Kluwer returns no matches.

How does it compare?

Doximity Ask is free to verified US clinicians (Doximity), while Expert AI is limited to one editorial library and starts at $699 a year.

Who is it for?

  • A hospitalist or internist who already pays for UpToDate and wants Pro Plus for the AI layer.
  • A health system with an enterprise UpToDate contract, where the add-on becomes a negotiation item.
  • A trainee on the $219 plan, for whom Pro Plus at $699 is more than three times the price.

The verdict

For a clinician already subscribed, Pro Plus costs $120 a year more than the $579 individual plan. Anyone not already on UpToDate pays $699 for an assistant whose accuracy rests on the vendor's word until an independent study appears.

Editorial review last generated October 15, 2026. Synthesized from clinician sentiment, peer-reviewed coverage, and our editorial silo picks. Refined by hand where vendor facts change.

Pricing

What it costs

All tiers are custom-quoted. The vendor does not publish per-provider list pricing.

TierMonthlyAnnualNotes
UpToDate individual—USD 579July 2026 figure from search summaries of vendor and review sites. The official page was not read. Trainees $219 per year with proof.
UpToDate Pro Plus (includes Expert AI)—USD 699From $699 per year in the US and Canada, per search summaries. The official page was not read.
Enterprise——Negotiated. No public price.

Source: vendor pricing page. Last checked October 15, 2026.

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