Anthropic and OpenEvidence to provide free medical AI to 100 countries

Anthropic and OpenEvidence have announced a partnership to provide free AI-powered clinical decision support tools to healthcare professionals in approximately 100 countries. The initiative specifically targets low- and middle-income nations where access to medical literature and specialized expertise is often limited.

Anthropic will provide the underlying artificial intelligence infrastructure, while OpenEvidence will adapt the system to local medical conditions, peer-reviewed research, and treatment guidelines. The program aims to bridge the global knowledge gap in healthcare, with initial focus areas including Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Haiti, and Mongolia.

The collaboration follows pilot programs conducted in Rwanda and Botswana, where the tool was tested by local doctors and nurses to ensure it could be adapted to regional disease patterns and available resources. OpenEvidence founder Daniel Nadler stated, “Access to medical knowledge should not depend on geography.”

While the initiative offers significant potential to assist clinicians in resource-limited settings, experts and the World Health Organization have noted potential challenges. These include the need for tools to be accurately localized to reflect local medical infrastructure and the risk that AI models trained primarily on data from high-income countries may not fully account for the specific clinical environments of developing nations.