Johns Hopkins Medicine is launching a partnership with OpenEvidence focused on clinical practice and physician training, reports Fierce Healthcare. The parties will develop AI systems that integrate the evidence base with patient medical records and Johns Hopkins protocols, using them to build a new model of medical education. OpenEvidence describes Johns Hopkins as the birthplace of modern medical education.
Recently, Northwestern Medicine announced that it had integrated OpenEvidence into its Epic electronic health record system. The service is accessible to nurses, pharmacists, and other clinical staff in addition to physicians, with access provided via hospital credentials. Prior to this, OpenEvidence had been adopted by Mount Sinai, Cedars-Sinai, Penn Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, and AdventHealth.
OpenEvidence is free for US medical professionals; according to the company, 1.12 million licensed specialists used the platform in September. Integrations are moving the service from physicians' mobile phones into the operational systems of the country's largest health systems—and, through the Johns Hopkins partnership, into the training of the next generation of medical professionals.
In September, Forbes reported that investors valued OpenEvidence at $15 billion, a 25% increase over its valuation in the January funding round.
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