The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and OpenEvidence, the most widely used medical AI platform among U.S. physicians, have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate ACOG’s evidence-based clinical guidance into OpenEvidence’s platform – giving ob-gyns and clinicians across specialties access to ob-gyn guidance within seconds at the point of care.
The collaboration addresses both access and geography: more than a third of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts, and clinicians outside major medical centers are often the first to field women’s health questions. Women’s health is also one of the most frequently searched topics on OpenEvidence, which has supported more than 200 million queries from verified health professionals.
“More than a third of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts, and clinicians outside major medical centers are often the first to field women’s health questions,” said OpenEvidence chief medical officer Travis Zack, MD, PhD. “Bringing that guidance into OpenEvidence means a family physician in a small community has the same evidence at their fingertips as a colleague at a large academic center.”
ACOG is OpenEvidence’s first content partner in ob-gyn, joining other partnerships with the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Beyond point-of-care access, the collaboration will generate insights from clinician search patterns to help ACOG identify where evidence gaps remain in women’s health – and inform future clinical guidance development.
“The patterns in clinicians’ questions also reveal where evidence gaps remain,” said Mondira Ray, MD, senior vice president of clinical informatics at OpenEvidence. “In an area of medicine that has historically been under-resourced, these insights will help inform where continued investment can have the greatest impact for women’s health care.”
ACOG’s clinical guidance is available within OpenEvidence now.
