OpenEvidence was granted a patent for an AI medical question-answering system.

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    "patent_abstract": "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating answers to medical questions using neural networks and other components. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving, from a user and by way of a user interface presented to the user on a display of a user device, a query for medical information; generating multiple responses to the query from the user by automatically retrieving and parsing data from a corpus of documents; and presenting, by way of the user interface and on the display of the user device: a first user interface element that presents a first response generated based only on clinical practice guideline documents, and a second user interface element that presents a second response generated based at least in part on documents that are not clinical practice guideline documents.",
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