Introducing iatroX Guidance Summaries
iatroX Guidance Summaries are a new, guideline-first layer inside iatroX: actionable, clinician-oriented summaries of current UK guidance (including NICE, CKS and SIGN-aligned path...
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Guideline-first vs literature-first: the 90-second evidence stack (MediSearch, PubMed.ai, PubMed Clinical Queries, iatroX)
Should you start with guidelines or with papers? In UK practice, most clinical questions are **guideline-first**: orient quickly using **NICE CKS** (370+ topics) or **SIGN**, jump ...
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NHS AI in practice: 7 reasons pilots die (and the playbook to scale safely)
NHS AI is moving from pilot to practice — and the NHS AI Knowledge Repository now includes an “AI in practice” collection of implementation resources, plus “Spread and scale AI” gu...
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Who is responsible when AI is used? (GMC expectations + what UK doctors actually say)
Who is responsible when AI is used in clinical work? The GMC’s answer is simple: professional standards still apply, and clinicians remain responsible for decisions they take when ...
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AI scribe consent & transparency: what patients should be told (and how to document it)
AI scribes (ambient scribes / AVTs) are arriving fast in UK general practice — and the real adoption bottleneck is not accuracy, it’s trust. This practical guide summarises what pa...
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NICE CKS vs GPnotebook vs iatroX: the 90-second GP workflow (2026)
When you are mid-consultation, the question is rarely “which platform is best?” — it is “what is the fastest defensible workflow?” This 2026 guide shows a practical 90‑second routi...
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How to use iatroX as a “NICE/CKS front door” (and stop losing 15 minutes per query)
iatroX can act as a practical “front door” to NICE and NICE CKS: start in iatroX Knowledge Centre, jump to the authoritative leaf page, sanity‑check edge cases with a /shared scena...
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Eolas vs ‘reference apps’ vs iatroX: they solve different problems — here’s how to choose
Clinicians are drowning in tools, but not all "clinical AI" is trying to do the same job. We break down the 4-bucket model of clinical knowledge—National, Summary, Local, and Reaso...
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Eolas just raised $12M: why ‘clinical knowledge infrastructure’ is the next NHS battleground
Yesterday’s $12M Series A for Eolas Medical isn’t just good news for Belfast tech; it’s a signal that the NHS "intranet problem" is finally getting fixed. We explore why "clinical ...
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The Evidence Ladder for Clinical AI Tools: From Preprints and Surveys to RCTs (PRECISE as the Case Study)
Clinicians are drowning in AI claims. Here’s a practical evidence ladder—bench tests, vignette studies, real-world adoption surveys, and RCTs—using OpenEvidence’s PRECISE trial as ...
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OpenEvidence’s PRECISE Trial: Why an RCT for an “Answer Engine” Matters
OpenEvidence is being evaluated in a randomised study (PRECISE) comparing a retrieval-augmented system against GPT-4 for diagnostic reasoning and management decisions. Here’s what ...
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Beyond UpToDate: 5 New Clinical Reference Apps Clinicians Should Know (and how to choose)
The era of the static textbook is over. We review the 5 new "Answer Engine" apps challenging UpToDate in 2026—OpenEvidence, ClinicalKey AI, DynaMedex, AMBOSS, and DoxGPT—and explai...
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