Johns Hopkins and OpenEvidence plan AI work in medical education and care

The partners say they want to prepare future clinicians for the environments where they will practice while grounding patient care in current evidence-based guidelines.[1] Their planned education model emphasizes pathophysiology, evidence-based medicine, first-principles clinical reasoning, and diagnostic and interpersonal skills.[1] They also plan to create adaptive AI systems to help physicians lead and continue learning in an AI-native environment.[1] The stated aim is to define rigorous, patient-centered medical education for the AI era.[1] For educators, the emphasis is on how clinicians learn and reason, not simply on introducing an AI tool into instruction.

The partners also plan to develop human-first AI systems intended to improve care delivery.[1] Those systems are planned to combine available medical evidence with a patient’s history and Johns Hopkins’ clinical best practices.[1] The organizations say the AI is intended to help clinicians reason through information more quickly and put it in context when making decisions.[1] Johns Hopkins executive Sara Murray described the opportunity as giving clinicians tools to make encounters more informed, precise and tailored to individual patients.[1] Murray told Fierce Healthcare that the partners are exploring ways to bring evidence-based AI more directly into clinical workflows.[2]

The partnership is still at an early stage of defining the capabilities the organizations will build together, Murray said.[2] She said they want to identify high-impact clinical uses and evaluate effects on decision-making, quality and patient outcomes.[2] OpenEvidence CEO Daniel Nadler described the work as at least a research-and-development and product collaboration; the company did not disclose commercial arrangements.[2] Becker’s Hospital Review reported that the announcement included no financial terms, timeline or details on which tools would be built first.[3] Those omissions mean the announcement sets out aims, but does not yet give health systems a deployment schedule or a product specification.

Fierce Healthcare reported that 1.12 million U.S. clinicians verified by medical license were using OpenEvidence as of September.[2] OpenEvidence says its platform is free for all verified U.S. clinicians.[1] Fierce Healthcare has reported that the company integrated generative AI tools into health systems including Mount Sinai, Cedars-Sinai, Penn Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and AdventHealth.[2] It also reported that Northwestern Medicine had most recently embedded OpenEvidence directly into its electronic health record.[2] These examples provide context for the company’s existing reach, but the Hopkins announcement does not identify which tools the partners will build first.[3]