Johns Hopkins Medicine and OpenEvidence, a medical AI platform for physicians, announced on October 13, 2026 a strategic collaboration to reimagine medical education and clinical care in the age of artificial intelligence. The collaboration rests on two pillars: preparing the next generation of clinicians for the future in which they will practice, and ensuring patients receive care grounded in the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines.
“Johns Hopkins designed modern medical education around a simple idea: that physicians learn medicine at the bedside, grounded in science and reasoning. The arrival of AI, in many ways, invites us back to the bedside with new tools and capabilities we have yet to fully imagine. Working with OpenEvidence enables us to design and inspire, very deliberately, the model of education and the practice of medicine for this new era,” said Sanjay Desai, MD, MACP, Vice Dean for Education at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Redefining the Clinician’s Role
The partners share the view that AI’s growing ability to surface and synthesize the world’s medical knowledge in seconds shifts the clinician’s role toward what cannot be automated: first-principles reasoning, clinical and contextual judgment, and the deeply human work of caring for patients.
Johns Hopkins established the current model of U.S. medical education more than a century ago. Together, the two organizations will design an education model that strengthens foundational principles, including a deep understanding of pathophysiology, evidence-based medicine, first-principles clinical reasoning, and the diagnostic and interpersonal skills at the heart of compassionate care. Alongside that, they will create adaptive AI systems that prepare physicians to lead, and keep learning, in an AI-native environment.
“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. “We believe the future of medicine should be built, not reacted to, and that it must keep patients at the center. There is no institution better suited to build it with than Johns Hopkins, the birthplace of modern medical education.”
Human-First AI at the Point of Care
OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine will also develop human-first AI systems designed to improve care delivery. These systems will surface and synthesize the best available evidence in the context of each patient’s medical history and Johns Hopkins Medicine’s established best practices, helping clinicians reason through information more quickly and make the best decision for each patient.
“Johns Hopkins clinicians always strive to deliver the best care in the world. This collaboration with OpenEvidence is an opportunity to build on that — giving them tools that make every encounter more informed, more precise, and more attuned to the individual patient in front of them,” said Sara Murray, MD, MAS, Chief Medical Informatics & AI Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
About OpenEvidence
OpenEvidence is a Miami-based AI platform for physicians that provides clinical evidence sourced, cited, and grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature. The company describes itself as the most widely used AI for doctors in the United States, and it is free for all verified U.S. clinicians.
