OpenEvidence's 42M August queries imply ~5 searches per workday per physician, beating Google
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-24
A back-of-the-envelope estimate: assuming 40% of US physicians are OpenEvidence DAUs and 22 workdays a month, 42M queries in August implies 5 queries per workday per physician — higher than Google (4.2 searches/day) and ChatGPT (2.5 queries/day).
The author argues this pulse on real-time clinical uncertainty is remarkable: categorizing those queries could reveal where clinical knowledge or solutions are scarcest, letting researchers and funders target those gaps — a flywheel that could spin faster than AI labs'.
Note: back-of-envelope math, not official figures.
Related event: OpenEvidence Hits 42M Monthly Queries, Doctors Use It 5 Times a Day(2 posts)→
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