OpenEvidence: Most physicians quietly use this medical AI tool

OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, has become a fast friend to America’s doctors and is now used by nearly two-thirds of physicians.

Your doctor is probably using AI, even if they haven’t told you about it.

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Over the past two years, medical providers across America have quietly embraced a new AI tool called OpenEvidence to help them make clinical decisions, brush up on medical knowledge and even prepare for their licensing exams. The service, a sort of chatbot for doctors, was used by about 65% of U.S. doctors across almost 27 million clinical encounters in April alone, the company told NBC News.

“Everyone is using it,” said Dr. Anupam Jena, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard. “Its growth really has been exponential.”