Wolters Kluwer and OpenAI have expanded their enterprise AI collaboration, providing Wolters Kluwer with broader access to OpenAI’s application programming interfaces (APIs) and platform capabilities to support the development of AI-powered professional solutions across healthcare, legal, tax, accounting, and compliance sectors.
The collaboration will be delivered through Wolters Kluwer’s proprietary AI-enablement platform, Foundation and Beyond (FAB), which serves as the company’s infrastructure for building and deploying enterprise-grade artificial intelligence across its product portfolio. FAB is designed as a model-agnostic platform, allowing integration with multiple AI models rather than relying on a single technology provider.
According to Wolters Kluwer, FAB incorporates governance and operational capabilities such as grounding, tracing, logging, tuning, and evaluation. These functions are intended to support the controlled and scalable deployment of AI within professional workflows while maintaining oversight and governance standards.
Commenting on the expanded relationship, Alex Tyrrell, Wolters Kluwer SVP and head of advanced technology, said, “This collaboration accelerates our Expert AI vision – bringing trusted AI to the professional workflows of clinicians, lawyers, accountants, and other experts, who rely on Wolters Kluwer in high-stakes environments.”
He added, “By combining OpenAI's latest enterprise capabilities with our Expert AI, curated content, deep domain workflows and the guardrails of our Responsible AI Principles, we are scaling purpose-built AI to support critical professional decision-making.”
Wolters Kluwer stated that the partnership will directly support its Expert AI product portfolio, including UpToDate Expert AI, a generative AI-enhanced version of its clinical decision support platform. The tool enables clinicians to ask questions in a conversational format, with responses grounded in UpToDate’s evidence-based clinical content rather than publicly available web sources. The platform is designed to provide transparency by presenting assumptions, treatment considerations, and supporting source material alongside responses.
The company also noted, “The expanded collaboration with OpenAI will directly strengthen our model-agnostic GenAI enablement platform, FAB, driving development from foundation models to agentic outcomes.”
Wolters Kluwer reported that, as of April 30, more than half of its U.S. Enterprise Edition customers—representing approximately 2,000 hospitals—had committed to adopting UpToDate Expert AI. The company expects adoption to reach roughly 70% of eligible customers by midyear.
The announcement comes as healthcare organizations continue assessing AI technologies. A 2024 HIMSS and Medscape report found that 86% of surveyed clinicians, nurses, IT professionals, and healthcare executives reported organizational use of AI, while 72% identified data privacy as a significant concern. Among respondents, clinical documentation and patient note transcription remained the most common AI application.
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