MDCalc launches a ‘rumble strip’ for doctors using generative AI tools – STAT

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By Brittany Trang
Nov. 11, 2026
Brittany Trang, a health technology reporter, is the author of AI Prognosis, a subscriber-only newsletter about the how artificial intelligence is transforming health care.
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Brittany Trang, Ph.D., covers AI in health and medicine: Does it actually work? Who benefits, or might be harmed? She writes the weekly AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.
MDCalc, a medical reference tool site, Wednesday announced the launch of CrossCover, which the company said is meant to help clinicians trust the answers of medical artificial intelligence chatbots while preserving patient and provider privacy.
Graham Walker, head of AI at MDCalc, said the company sees the tool as an accelerator for clinical generative AI. “We can take away some of the challenges and risks and problems with the technology so that physicians can feel more confident in using it,” he said.
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CrossCover takes an approach that contradicts that of medical AI tools from OpenEvidence, Abridge, and electronic health record company Epic, which are trying to incorporate an ever-widening repertoire of patient, provider, and payer information into their recommendations. Rather than requiring clinicians to register with their national identification numbers or trying to mitigate risk by brokering privacy agreements that allow clinicians to enter protected patient health information, MDCalc’s tool focuses on stripping out those types of information from clinicians’ queries.
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