The answer, the evidence, and this patient — in one place.
AskEvidence is ElderberryMD’s clinical answer engine. Ask a question in plain language and get a concise, cited answer grounded in trusted medical literature and your patient’s own chart — with drug-interaction screening built in. It’s a tool your clinicians wield: it shows its sources, you verify and decide. It never replaces clinical judgment.
No clinician can keep up with the evidence — and the question won’t wait.
The evidence base doubles while you’re between patients. AskEvidence does the reading, so the answer is there when the question is.
How AskEvidence answers
Not a chatbot guessing from memory. AskEvidence retrieves real evidence first, then writes the answer from it — the approach researchers call retrieval-augmented generation. That’s why it can show you exactly where every statement came from.
Understands the question
Ask in plain language — “safest DOAC for a 78-year-old with CKD and afib?” — from the chart or the care conversation.
Retrieves the evidence
It pulls the relevant passages from authoritative sources and this patient’s record — not the open web.
Synthesizes a cited answer
A concise, patient-specific answer with inline citations and links back to every source.
You verify & decide
One click to the source. The clinician confirms and makes the call — always.
Grounding in retrieved, cited evidence dramatically reduces the unsourced fabrication risk of general-purpose chatbots — it doesn’t eliminate it, which is exactly why every answer is built to be verified.
Grounded in the sources clinicians already trust
Every answer is built from authoritative, citable evidence — and shows its work. No anonymous web pages, no black box.
PubMed / MEDLINE
The NLM’s index of 40M+ peer-reviewed biomedical citations.
Primary literatureCochrane Library
Independent systematic reviews — the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine.
Systematic reviewsUSPSTF
Graded, evidence-based preventive-care recommendations.
PreventionSpecialty guidelines
ACC/AHA, ADA, IDSA and other society guidelines for real-world practice.
GuidelinesDailyMed & FDA labeling
Authoritative, current prescribing information: indications, dosing, warnings.
Drug labelingCDC
Public-health guidance, immunization schedules, and treatment recommendations.
Public healthClinicalTrials.gov
The NLM registry of 400,000+ studies for emerging and off-label evidence.
TrialsNICE & MedlinePlus
Rigorous international guidance and plain-language patient explanations.
ReferenceWe integrate the sources appropriate to your specialty — tell us what your practice relies on and we build to it.
Aware of your patient — not just the literature
A web search gives you the average patient. AskEvidence answers for the one in front of you. It reads the chart and the live care conversation, so guidance accounts for age, comorbidities, current medications, allergies, and recent labs — the difference between a textbook answer and the right answer.
Connected to the record through ElderberryMD’s FHIR-native integration, AskEvidence works with the chart you already keep. See EHR integration →
Context AskEvidence draws on
- Problem list & active diagnoses
- Current medications & the full med list
- Documented allergies & intolerances
- Recent labs & vitals — renal function, A1c, BP
- Age, sex & relevant history
- The live care conversation — what the patient just told your team
Medication safety, built in
Because AskEvidence knows the patient’s full medication list, it screens every answer for safety — the same family of checks hospital pharmacists rely on, surfaced at the point of care. A third of point-of-care questions are about drugs; this is where it earns its keep.
- Drug–drug interaction (DDI) screening — flags clinically significant interactions across the active med list
- Drug–allergy checking — against documented allergies, including cross-sensitivities
- Drug–disease contraindications — e.g. an NSAID flagged in chronic kidney disease
- Dose-range checking — dose, frequency, and route against recommended and renal-adjusted ranges
- Duplicate-therapy detection — two drugs in the same therapeutic class
- Normalized via RxNorm — the U.S. standard drug vocabulary, so checks stay consistent across systems
Signal, not another ignored alert
Clinicians override roughly 90% of traditional drug-interaction alerts — the legacy systems cry wolf. AskEvidence is different by design: checks are patient-specific, evidence-cited, and surfaced in the context of the question you actually asked. It earns attention instead of training your team to click through.
Built to be trusted
The fastest answer is worthless if your clinician can’t stand behind it. AskEvidence is engineered for verifiability: cited sources, patient context, and a clinician in control of every decision.
AI assistance for clinical information — not medical advice and not a diagnosis. The clinician reviews the evidence and makes every call.
Give your team a clinical answer engine — not another chatbot.
AskEvidence is included from the Free plan. Patients are always free; providers start free and scale through Practice, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise plans.