JAMA study: US clinicians' AI queries grew from 355 to 700K monthly users in 2.5 years
IAmSamFin · x · 2026-10-15
A JAMA paper led by Michael Liu, Sam Finlayson and Anupam B. Jena analyzed 271M queries from 950K+ clinicians on OpenEvidence over 2.5 years.
- Monthly active users grew from just 355 to over 700K, and 9 out of 10 kept coming back
- Finlayson likens the query data to "Google Street View cameras for medicine," revealing how clinicians navigate knowns and unknowns in clinical knowledge
- Mining these data could expose practice trends, gaps in guidelines and emerging clinical needs, but must be handled carefully for patient safety and clinician trust
This is the first published trend analysis from OpenEvidence data, with more work underway.
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