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Remember doctors griping about patients self-diagnosing with Google? Today, two out of three doctors ask an AI chatbot what to do about you. Said one doctor: "It referred me to this New England Journal of Medicine paper from 2014, which, for the life of me, I could not find on Google.” (Of course he couldn't, Google is shit now.) OpenEvidence is free to use, because it's funded by drug and medical supply ads. BUT you can only use it if you're a practitioner with a healthcare ID number supplied by the U.S. govt. The company says its technology is HIPAA-compliant -- which is such a relief because technology companies would never lie about data privacy, or have massive breaches of customer records. A preliminary academic study found that "OpenEvidence accurately answered more complex medical questions less than 45% of the time." Crows the OpenEvidence CEO: "We got the majority of American doctors to all voluntarily adopt a single technology platform.” #AI #health #tech #technology https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openevidence-ai-doctor-medical-physician-login-app-what-npi-uptodate-rcna341064