Travis Zack: How OpenEvidence Picks and Grades the Evidence

Doctors hallucinate too. That's the provocation Travis Zack, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of OpenEvidence, brings to this conversation with Steve Labkoff and Leon Rozenblit. A physician with 20 patients and no time to look things up goes with their gut, and can get it wrong in the same ways a language model does. Travis explains why OpenEvidence was built on retrieving evidence rather than generating answers, what makes one set of references better than another, how it grades the strength of evidence behind an answer in real time, why health systems and EHR vendors act as gatekeepers, and why the last mile of a clinical decision still belongs to a human.