Boston Children’s Hospital and OpenEvidence Collaborate to Advance AI-Powered Analysis of Clinical Practice Patterns

MIAMI & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Children's Hospital, one of the nation's top pediatric hospitals, and OpenEvidence, the leading AI-powered clinical decision support platform, today announced a multi-year collaboration to examine how clinicians' real-world use of AI tools at the point of care relates to practice patterns and delivery of care.

OpenEvidence has seen broad adoption in clinical settings, yet little is known about how that adoption relates to clinical practice patterns at a population level. By bringing together one of the leading pediatric academic medical centers at the forefront of clinical innovation with the most widely used medical AI platform, the collaboration is positioned to evaluate the relationship between OpenEvidence and real-world clinical practice at a scale and resolution not previously possible. To ensure patient privacy, the teams will focus on analyzing only aggregated, provider-level data; no patient-level data will be accessed or used.

"This initiative brings together Boston Children's deep clinical expertise and OpenEvidence's clinical evidence platform to better understand care delivery and help children thrive, while preserving patient privacy," said John Brownstein, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital. "OpenEvidence has quickly become a trusted, everyday resource at the point of care, supporting millions of patient visits across the U.S. By analyzing anonymous patterns in how clinicians ask and answer questions during these encounters, we can surface insights into health trends that would otherwise remain hidden—and, in collaboration with OpenEvidence, continue helping clinicians deliver better care."

The collaboration includes an integration that enables Boston Children's clinicians to access OpenEvidence directly within the electronic health record, reflecting how central the tool has become to clinical workflows at Boston Children's. "As a pediatrician who trained and practiced at Boston Children's before joining OpenEvidence, I have watched the tool go from nonexistent to indispensable among my colleagues in a remarkably short period of time," said Mondira Ray, MD, MBI, Senior Vice President of Clinical Informatics at OpenEvidence. "OpenEvidence has become part of how clinicians practice. A change this visible carries implications we are eager to examine."

Boston Children’s Hospital is ranked among the best children’s hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and is a pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Home to the world’s largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, Boston Children’s has led the way in life-changing pediatric innovation since its founding in 1869. Today, 3,000 researchers and scientific staff, including 15 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 37 members of the National Academy of Medicine and 13 Howard Hughes Medical Investigators across ~1M square feet of lab space comprise the research community. From bench to bedside, scientists work on preventing, treating, and curing diseases that impact both children and adults, no matter how rare or complex the condition. Founded as a 20-bed hospital for children, Boston Children’s is now a 491-bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care.

With nine satellite locations and the Martha Elliot Health Center, Boston Children’s also provides 24/7 pediatric care at five hospitals including Beverly Hospital, Winchester Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, South Shore Hospital and Cape Cod Hospital.

Boston Children’s also includes: Affiliation with Franciscan Children’s Hospital, including 112 beds and 700+ employees; Boston Children’s Primary Care Alliance, a robust network of 33 pediatric practices serving patients and families throughout Massachusetts; The Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Boston Children’s Hospital (PPOC) with more than 400 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants devoted exclusively to pediatric primary care, in close collaboration with subspecialists at Boston Children’s in more than 90 locations throughout Massachusetts; Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP) which is the largest pediatric multispecialty group in New York's Metropolitan Area, the Hudson Valley, and Connecticut, including nearly 300 clinicians in more than 60 locations.

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About OpenEvidence

OpenEvidence is the fastest-growing and most widely-used clinical decision support platform in the United States, and the most widely used medical search engine among U.S. clinicians. OpenEvidence is trusted by hundreds of thousands of verified healthcare professionals to make high-stakes clinical decisions at the point of care that are sourced, cited, and grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature. Founded with the mission to organize and expand global medical knowledge, OpenEvidence is actively used daily, on average, by the majority of physicians in the United States. Learn more at openevidence.com