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Daily Briefing for October 16, 2026

JAMA study counts 271 million clinician queries to OpenEvidence

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More than 950,000 U.S. clinicians, 556,200 of them physicians, sent 271 million queries to the AI reference platform OpenEvidence over 2.5 years, according to a study published Oct. 15 in JAMA.

Just over half of the queries, 51.9%, concerned clinical decisions, led by treatment and management at 33.1%, while 13.9%…

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