OpenEvidence, Johns Hopkins Medicine Partner to Develop AI Tools for Medical Education, Clinical Care

October 15, 2026 by matray

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine announced a strategic collaboration to develop artificial intelligence tools designed to reshape medical education and help physicians make clinical decisions using evidence-based guidelines and individual patient information.

The partnership, announced Oct. 13, will focus on two areas: developing a medical education model that prepares future physicians to practice in an AI-driven healthcare environment and creating clinical AI systems that integrate current medical research with patients’ medical histories and established treatment practices.

The organizations said the collaboration reflects the growing need to reconsider how physicians are trained and how they deliver care as AI systems become increasingly capable of retrieving, analyzing and synthesizing medical information.

Under the agreement, OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins will work to develop an educational framework that emphasizes foundational medical knowledge, including pathophysiology, evidence-based medicine, diagnostic reasoning and interpersonal skills, while incorporating AI-powered learning systems.

The approach is intended to strengthen physicians’ clinical judgment and ability to evaluate complex medical information rather than rely exclusively on automated recommendations.

"Johns Hopkins designed modern medical education around a simple idea: that physicians learn medicine at the bedside, grounded in science and reasoning," said Sanjay Desai, MD, vice dean for education at Johns Hopkins Medicine. "The arrival of AI, in many ways, invites us back to the bedside with new tools and capabilities we have yet to fully imagine."

The clinical component of the partnership will focus on developing AI systems that synthesize medical evidence in the context of individual patients' medical histories and clinical practices established at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The organizations said the systems will be designed to help clinicians evaluate relevant information more efficiently, apply evidence-based guidelines and make treatment decisions tailored to individual patients.

Sara Murray, MD, chief medical informatics and AI officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said the collaboration presents an opportunity to provide physicians with tools that make clinical encounters more informed, precise and responsive to individual patient needs.

The partnership also reflects a broader shift in the role of physicians as AI becomes more deeply integrated into clinical practice. Rather than replacing clinical decision-making, the organizations envision AI systems that support physicians while preserving their responsibility for diagnostic reasoning, contextual judgment and patient care.

"The question in front of medicine is not whether AI will change the physician's role — it is who will define that change, and on what principles," said Travis Zack, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of OpenEvidence.

OpenEvidence operates an AI-powered medical information platform that allows clinicians to obtain answers to clinical questions using information drawn from peer-reviewed medical literature. The company says its platform is used by millions of verified U.S. healthcare professionals and is available free to verified U.S. clinicians.

The organizations did not disclose financial terms of the collaboration or provide a timeline for introducing the proposed educational programs and clinical AI systems.