AI Rounds by the Cumming School of Medicine
Jul 29, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Many of you have written in asking about OpenEvidence. In this episode I walk through what's actually inside the AI clinical search tool that didn't exist before 2023 and is now used by an estimated…
Let me start by placing Open Evidence next to three things you already know.
I want to make that distinction clear right away because the user experience feels similar.
You type in a question in natural language, you get an answer in natural language, but the architecture underneath is different.
Up-to-date is structured, edited, peer-reviewed content written by human experts and updated on a schedule.
It is an AI tool that searches and synthesizes the medical literature directly.
Google Scholar gives you a list of papers ranked by some sort of algorithm, but you have to go through and read the papers yourself.
It reads the papers, and in effect gives you an answer with citations attached.
So if Open Evidence is not ChatGPT, not UpToDate, and not Google Scholar, what is it? Well, it's an AI-powered question-answering tool that searches and synthesizes peer-reviewed medical literature.
It's free for verified healthcare professionals, and it's got citations attached to every claim it makes.
Let me start by placing Open Evidence next to three things you already know.
I want to make that distinction clear right away because the user experience feels similar.
You type in a question in natural language, you get an answer in natural language, but the architecture underneath is different.
Up-to-date is structured, edited, peer-reviewed content written by human experts and updated on a schedule.
It is an AI tool that searches and synthesizes the medical literature directly.
Google Scholar gives you a list of papers ranked by some sort of algorithm, but you have to go through and read the papers yourself.
It reads the papers, and in effect gives you an answer with citations attached.
So if Open Evidence is not ChatGPT, not UpToDate, and not Google Scholar, what is it? Well, it's an AI-powered question-answering tool that searches and synthesizes peer-reviewed medical literature.
It's free for verified healthcare professionals, and it's got citations attached to every claim it makes.
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