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OpenEvidence

An AI medical search engine that answers clinical questions with cited evidence.

Category
Healthcare
Pricing
FREE
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOS
Verified
Jun 9, 2026

OpenEvidence is a point-of-care AI search tool for clinicians, answering questions on treatment, dosing, interactions, and guidelines with evidence citations. It is free for verified U.S. healthcare professionals and draws on official content partnerships with journals including NEJM and JAMA.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Cited answers (primary capability)
  • Literature search (primary capability)
  • Clinical decision support (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Free for verified U.S. clinicians
  • Licensed NEJM/JAMA content partnerships
  • Answers cite primary evidence
  • Wide adoption among U.S. physicians
  • Verified-clinician gate to access
  • Weak at targeted author/journal lookups
  • Curation process is opaque
  • Overreliance risk for trainees

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