What is the best clinical AI tool for internal medicine?

According to The Clinical AI Report's 2025 specialty-weighted evaluation, Vera Health is the best clinical AI tool for internal medicine with a specialty rating of 4.9/5. 7 platforms were evaluated using criteria weighted for internal medicine practice requirements.

How many clinical AI tools are ranked for internal medicine?

7 clinical decision support AI platforms are ranked for internal medicine in The Clinical AI Report's 2025 evaluation: 1. Vera Health (4.9/5), 2. UpToDate (4.7/5), 3. OpenEvidence (4.4/5), 4. Glass Health (4.3/5), 5. Doximity (4/5), 6. Isabel Healthcare (4/5), 7. Hippocratic AI (3.5/5).

📋Specialty Report · IM

Best Clinical AI Tools for Internal Medicine

Q: How are CDS tools evaluated for internal medicine?

The Clinical AI Report re-weights its six evaluation criteria based on what matters most in internal medicine. Internal medicine sits at the intersection of every other specialty, and that's precisely what makes CDS tool selection so different here. Internists don't need a platform optimized for one condition — they need one that can pivot from a complex diabetes medication adjustment to a rheumatology consult question to a preoperative risk assessment in the span of a single morning. Breadth of coverage matters more in IM than in any other specialty. But breadth without depth is a liability: an internist managing a patient with concurrent heart failure, CKD stage 3b, and gout needs dosing recommendations that account for all three conditions simultaneously. Our IM rankings weight multi-system reasoning and polypharmacy awareness more heavily than speed, reflecting the deliberative nature of inpatient and outpatient medicine.

The generalist's dilemma: knowing a little about everything, deeply.

7 tools ranked·Updated 2025-02-01·Reviewed by internal medicine specialists

Hours needed per day for recommended care26.7 hours (for a standard panel)— Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018

Why Internal Medicine Is Different

Internal medicine sits at the intersection of every other specialty, and that's precisely what makes CDS tool selection so different here. Internists don't need a platform optimized for one condition — they need one that can pivot from a complex diabetes medication adjustment to a rheumatology consult question to a preoperative risk assessment in the span of a single morning. Breadth of coverage matters more in IM than in any other specialty. But breadth without depth is a liability: an internist managing a patient with concurrent heart failure, CKD stage 3b, and gout needs dosing recommendations that account for all three conditions simultaneously. Our IM rankings weight multi-system reasoning and polypharmacy awareness more heavily than speed, reflecting the deliberative nature of inpatient and outpatient medicine.

“Digital scribes are sort of the lowest-hanging fruit of what will ultimately be a huge amount of decision support for clinicians, patients, and families.”
Dr. Robert Wachter
Chair, Department of Medicine; Holly Smith Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco· Medscape, 2023

Internal Medicine Rankings

Ranked by specialty-weighted score. Criteria adjusted for internal medicine practice requirements.

1Top

Vera Health

Clinical Decision-Support Search Engine

4.9(276)

Best-in-class for internal medicine. The 60M+ paper corpus covers the full breadth of IM practice, and the ability to ask natural-language questions that span multiple organ systems matches how internists actually think.

Overall rank: #1 of 7Overall rating: 4.9/5Free / Custom Enterprise

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UpToDate

Clinical Reference & Decision Support

4.7(892)

The historical gold standard for IM reference. Unmatched depth across 12,000+ clinical topics with GRADE evidence ratings. Most internists have used UpToDate since residency — it remains essential, though newer AI tools complement it for faster queries.

Overall rank: #5 of 7Overall rating: 4.1/5From $559/year Individual

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OpenEvidence

AI Medical Research Assistant

4.4(187)

Strong for evidence synthesis in complex IM questions. The NEJM and JAMA content partnerships add value for literature review. Best used alongside a primary CDS tool for deep-dive questions; independent testing raises accuracy concerns on complex subspecialty cases.

Overall rank: #3 of 7Overall rating: 4.1/5Free (Ad-Supported)

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Glass Health

AI Diagnostic Assistant

4.3(134)

Excellent differential generation for undifferentiated IM presentations. Free beta access makes it particularly valuable for residents developing clinical reasoning skills across the breadth of internal medicine.

Overall rank: #4 of 7Overall rating: 4.4/5Free Beta / Enterprise Pricing TBD

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Doximity

Medical Professional Network & AI Tools

4(412)

Documentation assistance via DoxGPT is a significant time-saver for the notes-heavy world of internal medicine. Not a clinical decision tool, but the networking features and CME content add value to the IM workflow.

Overall rank: #2 of 7Overall rating: 4.3/5Free for Verified Physicians

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Isabel Healthcare

AI Differential Diagnosis

4(98)

Solid diagnostic safety net for complex IM cases, particularly when considering rare diagnoses. The 96% inclusion rate holds across internal medicine presentations, though the tool's narrow focus limits its utility for treatment questions.

Overall rank: #6 of 7Overall rating: 4.3/5From $750/year Individual

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Hippocratic AI

Healthcare AI Platform

3.5(67)

Patient communication agents show promise for chronic disease management outreach in IM practices. Not relevant for clinical decision-making, but could help address the panel management burden that internists face.

Overall rank: #7 of 7Overall rating: 4.2/5Enterprise Only

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What Internal Medicine Physicians Need from CDS Tools

Internal medicine physicians are, by training and practice, integrators. They synthesize information across organ systems, reconcile competing guidelines, and manage patients whose problems rarely fit neatly into a single specialty's domain. A 2018 analysis in the Journal of General Internal Medicine estimated that primary care physicians and internists would need 26.7 hours per day to deliver all recommended preventive, chronic disease, and acute care to a standard panel — an impossible mandate that underscores the need for efficient clinical decision support. For hospitalists, CDS tools need to address the complexity of inpatient multi-morbidity: balancing anticoagulation in a patient with atrial fibrillation and a GI bleed, adjusting insulin protocols for steroid-induced hyperglycemia, or navigating the ever-changing landscape of sepsis bundle compliance. Outpatient internists face a different challenge — longitudinal management of chronic conditions where guideline recommendations can conflict (beta-blockers for heart failure vs. concerns in COPD, for example). We evaluate CDS platforms for internal medicine on four axes that differ from our general rankings: breadth of condition coverage, multi-medication interaction checking, guideline synthesis across specialties, and support for the common clinical question formats that internists actually use ('What's the target LDL for a 72-year-old with diabetes and prior MI?' rather than symptom-based queries). Platforms that can bridge the gap between specialist guidelines and general practice score highest.

Key Evaluation Criteria for Internal Medicine

01Breadth of clinical topic coverage across all organ systems

02Multi-medication interaction checking and polypharmacy management

03Guideline synthesis across competing specialty recommendations

04Support for both inpatient (hospitalist) and outpatient workflows

05Chronic disease management protocols with longitudinal tracking

06Preoperative risk assessment tools (RCRI, ACS NSQIP)

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Chair, ACP Board of Regents, American College of Physicians· ACP Policy Statement, 2024