I’ve temporarily taken MedQA offline - I’m working on a more nuanced, intricate set of Clinical AI Agents! If you’re interested and would like to be pinged when it’s up, please feel to reach out.

The document below is a comprehensive outline of the MedQA tool and its capabilities.

MedQA is an AI-powered clinical reference tool designed to provide a flexible interface for clinical knowledge. You can use natural language to ask MedQA to provide information specific clinical questions, provide a bulleted outline of a particular topic, generate differential diagnoses, and more!

There are two main distinguishing goals of MedQA compared to other AI-based or clinical reference tools:

1. Clinical guideline adherence: MedQA follows a multi-tiered approach to combine the flexibility and contextual awareness of AI-based approaches with factual grounding in clinical guidelines
2. Domain-Driven Design: I started developing MedQA during the clinical years of medical school — it is tightly designed for the medical domain and has AI-powered features built specifically around clinical use-cases. For example:
   • Synthesize Topics: When comparing different topics, rather than having to manually look up each one, MedQA will pull information from different topics and synthesize that information to answer the query
   • Flexible Answer Format: Depending on the need, MedQA can provide answers in various formats: paragraph answers, bullet point outline-style, tables.
     • It can answer factual queries in a reference-style format, clinical questions in a handbook style, describe procedures step-by-step

• The goal is to provide a reference that sits in between the spectrum of resources like UpToDate and a quick Google search -- it can answer queries concisely and provide contextual information like a quick search would, but also support the answer with clinical references like UpToDate.
• There is a growing number of domain-specific AI tools (such as for programming, general knowledge, writing) — the goal for MedQA is to be a tool that leverages AI appropriately and effectively for the clinical domain.

Ultimately, MedQA is an experimental tool. Please do not use it for clinical decision making or medical advice. I believe experimenting and gaining empirical info about techniques that do & don't work in this domain is very important to inform future progress!

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