< b > Waltham, MA - < /b > & nbsp; On the heals of an imminent 60 Minutes documentary exposing the inner workings of UpToDate ®, the popular subscription-only, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, & nbsp;officials were forced to admit & nbsp;most of their authors use Google as their goto resource. < br / > < br / > In a pre..."> < b > Waltham, MA - < /b > & nbsp; On the heals of an imminent 60 Minutes documentary exposing the inner workings of UpToDate ®, the popular subscription-only, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, & nbsp;officials were forced to admit & nbsp;most of their authors use Google as their goto resource. < br / > < br / > In a pre..." /> < b > Waltham, MA - < /b > & nbsp; On the heals of an imminent 60 Minutes documentary exposing the inner workings of UpToDate ®, the popular subscription-only, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, & nbsp;officials were forced to admit & nbsp;most of their authors use Google as their goto resource. < br / > < br / > In a pre..." />

UpToDate ® Forced To Admit Google Used as Their Main Source of Information.

< div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on" > < b > Waltham, MA - < /b > & nbsp; On the heals of an imminent 60 Minutes documentary exposing the inner workings of UpToDate ®, the popular subscription-only, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, & nbsp;officials were forced to admit & nbsp;most of their authors use Google as their goto resource. < br / > < br / > In a prepared statement to reporters, Wolters Kluwer Health, which owns UpToDate, confirmed & nbsp;that Google is hands down the most popular resource used by their 6,000 physician authors to regurgitate medical information into neatly repackaged articles for the $500 per year professional service. < br / > < br / > "I don't even know why this is news. & nbsp;Everyone knows doctors have been using Google for years to get their trusted medical information like the rest of us, said CEO Nancy McKinstry. < br / > < br / > "As little as 20 years ago, our physicians would have had to go to a library and ask a librarian to find peer reviewed articles, but nobody has time for that anymore. & nbsp; The use of Google is just a natural extension of the internet revolution." < br / > < br / > UpToDate says they actually encourage their authors to use lay people resources to fine tine their articles for the current patient-satisfaction-centered model of care. & nbsp;"We know patients are using Google to find their trusted information. & nbsp;It just makes sense for our authors to use Google too so our us...
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