Guyana to introduce OpenEvidence AI platform to support healthcare delivery

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, has announced that Guyana will soon introduce OpenEvidence, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform designed to support doctors and nurses in improving healthcare delivery across the country.

OpenEvidence is a leading AI-powered clinical decision support platform and medical search engine used by over half of physicians in the United States. It answers medical questions by grounding its responses directly in peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines, and medical literature with clear citations.

Addressing a graduation ceremony for medexes on Tuesday, Dr Anthony said Guyana will soon be introducing this system.

“Open Evidence, this is something that is being used in the United States for the medical doctors and we are one of the first countries outside of the US that would be using this system. So that it does, if you wanna treat somebody with any condition, malaria or something, you can type it into the AI and it would tell you the latest treatment that is available and it would be able to give you all the differential diagnoses and a whole host of other things. Now, malaria might be a simple example but there are sometimes very complicated patients that would have different things happening to them at the same time and for those complicated patients, if you put the scenario into this particular OpenEvidence software, it would be able to give you options on how you can treat the patient. Ultimately, it’s the doctors’ decision, but this is heling you to give you information and maybe sometimes things you haven’t thought about. So, we’re embracing AI tools,” the health minister noted.

Dr Anthony emphasised that the government is committed to building out a world-class healthcare system and this means embracing modern technology, including artificial intelligence.

Already, AI-assisted systems have been deployed at some medical institutions to rapidly read and interpret CT scans and X-rays, helping clinicians detect abnormalities in seconds.

Additionally, the government is developing an AI-supported system that tracks pharmaceuticals and medical supplies in real time from the Materials Management Unit, cutting down drug spoilage, expiration, and shortages.

Another component of the modernisation effort is the implementation of an electronic patient health record system. The initial phase, which involves digitising patient records at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), began in March 2025.

Meanwhile, addressing the medexes, the Health Minister encouraged them to embrace the use of technology in their work.

“You are part of a system that is changing, that is growing, that is developing and we want you to change and to make sure that the changes happen on the ground as well and with these changes, you also gotto know about computers…you gotto be able to use some of the tools that would be available to you,” he noted.