{
  "id": 10518867,
  "title": "OpenEvidence partners with Anthropic, Penn Medicine to expand physician access to AI across Africa and Asia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/openevidence-partners-with-anthropic-penn-medicine-to-expand",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T17:52:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fierce Healthcare",
    "slug": "fierce-healthcare",
    "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/openevidence-partners-anthropic-and-penn-medicine-expand-medical-ai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenEvidence, a company specializing in AI-powered clinical decision support technology, has announced a new partnership with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, and Penn Medicine, a renowned healthcare institution. This collaboration aims to expand the reach of AI tools to physicians in low- and middle-income countries across Africa and Asia.\n\nThe initiative will provide a specialized version of OpenEvidence's platform to healthcare providers in these regions at no cost. This move comes as limited access to medical literature and specialist expertise can negatively impact patient care in lower-resourced areas. Through this partnership, Anthropic is offering access to dedicated Claude Credits, engineers, and funding for a team dedicated to the expansion of AI tools to these countries.\n\nAnthropic's technology will serve as the back-end support, while OpenEvidence will tailor the system to suit different regions, taking into account the unique healthcare infrastructure. The AI-powered platform developed by OpenEvidence includes a medical search engine and a generative AI chatbot that simplifies and summarizes evidence-based medical information. As of September, 1.12 million licensed U.S. clinicians were using OpenEvidence, with the system being consulted 42 million times in August alone.\n\nThis collaboration is set to extend Penn Medicine's AI-powered clinical decision support to 10,000 clinicians across its seven-hospital U.S. health system, as well as to 10,000 clinicians in Botswana through the Botswana-UPenn Partnership. Founded on the belief that the best available medical evidence should reach every clinician, this partnership reflects a commitment to building tools that cater to the varied conditions under which most of the world practices medicine.",
  "summary": "OpenEvidence is teaming up with Anthropic to expand its artificial intelligence-powered clinical decision support technology to physicians in low- and middle-income countries across Africa and Asia.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}