Monument Health Blocks OpenEvidence for Clinicians — SkimNews
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- Monument Health, the South Dakota- and Wyoming-based health system, decided to block access to OpenEvidence for its hundreds of clinicians, prompting CIO Patrick Woodard to hold talks with doctors who objected.
- Patrick Woodard said one "super user" doctor was storing more than a hundred patient records inside OpenEvidence and feeding them to the AI for help making medical decisions — a practice Woodard told him had to end.
- OpenEvidence, along with Doximity Ask and ChatGPT for Clinicians, has grown in popularity over the last year, with hundreds of thousands of doctors using the free chatbots built to answer clinician questions.
- HIPAA compliance claims are what let clinicians share a patient's protected health information directly with the AI after signing an agreement.
- Clinicians use the tools in part because of that assurance, which is meant to address one potential risk of the technology while making the chatbots more valuable day-to-day.
Why it matters: The HIPAA-compliance pledge is what makes these chatbots valuable day-to-day for clinicians, yet Monument Health still blocked OpenEvidence for its hundreds of clinicians after one doctor stored more than 100 patient records inside it — leaving peer health systems weighing the same block-or-buy-in choice.
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