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ClinicalKey AI

Your clinical-grade AI workspace

ClinicalKey AI is a clinical decision support tool designed to quickly surface the latest evidence at the point of care—now with more content, workflow improvements and transparency features to help increase confidence and clarity.

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How Clinicalkey AI Supports clinicians

Used by clinicians globally, ClinicalKey AI is specifically designed for clinical application and offers the latest information.

Empowering clinicians with trusted support, education, and seamless access to information.

  • Clinicians can earn, track and claim Continuing Medical Education (CME)* and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits directly in the ClinicalKey AI platform, supported by the American Boards across eight medical specialties.
  • Elsevier's team of clinical professionals, representing various specialties, evaluate the quality, completeness, and safety of the system’s responses on a regular cadence.
  • Seamlessly access ClinicalKey AI from our hybrid app or SSO in Epic directly in your clinical workflow.

How Clinicalkey AI Supports clinicians

  • Clinicians can earn, track and claim Continuing Medical Education (CME)* and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits directly in the ClinicalKey AI platform, supported by the American Boards across eight medical specialties.
  • Elsevier's team of clinical professionals, representing various specialties, evaluate the quality, completeness, and safety of the system’s responses on a regular cadence.
  • Seamlessly access ClinicalKey AI from our hybrid app or SSO in Epic directly in your clinical workflow.

Get trusted, evidence-based answers in seconds 

Delivering deeper evidence, greater transparency, and improved usability

ClinicalKey AI has evolved to meet the demands of modern clinical practice with unrivaled full-text knowledge base and technology upgrades   to help you make informed decisions with speed and confidence.

  • Natural language queries enable you to ask questions in a conversational way that allows for follow-up questions   

  • Answers are backed by clear citations to published research, allowing for traceability via direct links to help keep your reasoning grounded in peer-reviewed evidence 

  • Responses can be tailored to consider patient context such as age, comorbidities and current medications, when prompted 

  • Share responses and manage query history in a privacy panel 

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More guidelines, more journals, more depth—right when you need it

ClinicalKey AI now offers the broadest collection of trusted medical evidence in a clinical AI solution, ensuring answers are not only fast, but firmly grounded in the latest evidence.

  • More clinical practice guidelines from leading medical societies, including ACC, AACE, CHEST, ACEP, AGA and more 

  • Doubled volume of fulltext journal coverage, featuring titles such as The Lancet family of journals, CHESTJournal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyJournal of Thoracic Oncology, and AJOG 

  • Best-in-class medical books, including Braunwald’s Heart Disease, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery and more 

  • Expanded sources beyond Elsevier, including the New England Journal of Medicine and cross-specialty abstracts from 1,100+ journals 

Confidence in AI through traceability and transparency

Instead of searching the open web, ClinicalKey AI is built with a clinician-in-the-loop approach and real-time evidence verification, bringing unprecedented clarity to AI-generated clinical responses.

  • Real-time citation validation making it easy to confirm evidence instantly

  • 100+ clinicians regularly review and test responses to help keep answers accurate and clinically relevant

  • Query assistance reframes closeended questions to mitigate anchor bias and improve precision 

  • Direct traceability from every answer to the primary source, down to the exact paragraph

A more intuitive, flexible point-of-care experience

The updated ClinicalKey AI interface improves usability and personalization—whether at the bedside or on the go.

  • Streamlined navigation with a more intuitive layout for faster answer retrieval 

  • Native voice-to-text dictation in the mobile app for hands-free querying 

  • New privacy panel to manage query history with greater control 

  • Population toggle to switch between adult and pediatric perspectives 

Share answers with your colleagues and earn CME credits while you work

Turn your everyday clinical questions into collaboration moments and ongoing professional growth. No extra forms. No after-hours effort. 

  • New share feature allows you to easily send ClinicalKey AI conversations to other medical professionals, even if they don’t have an account 

  • Get 0.5 CME credits for every ClinicalKey AI response you review

  • Check your dashboard anytime to see exactly how many credits you’ve earned 

  • Batch-claim credits whenever you’re ready  and submit them directly toward Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for boards like ABIM

What Clinicians are saying about ClinicalKey AI

"Before I started using ClinicalKey AI, it would take me hours and hours and days to bore through the literature to find exactly the details that I need … Now, in seconds, I can find an answer that would have taken days. It's a huge time saver."

 

John D. Walker MD, FAWM, FNAP; Wilderness Medicine Physician,  University of Texas at Austin

“I think the speed of the answer and the ability to ask questions in natural language, as opposed to going in and trying to do a search, gives it a real edge over other clinical resources. Just to be able to ask a question in natural language and get a very prompt answer that is accurate is great. The fact that it's pointing to evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles is really the key.”

 

Clinician at a major university

"Before I started using ClinicalKey AI, it would take me hours and days to bore through the literature to find exactly the details that I need … Now, in seconds, I can find an answer that would have taken days. It's a huge time saver."

 

 

 

Wilderness Medicine Physician, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

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John D. Walker MD, FAWM, FNAP;

Wilderness Medicine Physician, University of Texas at Austin

“I think the speed of the answer and the ability to ask questions in natural language, as opposed to going in and trying to do a search, gives it a real edge over other clinical resources. Just to be able to ask a question in natural language and get a very prompt answer that is accurate is great. The fact that it's pointing to evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles is really the key.”

 

MD, CMIO;  St. Elizabeth Healthcare

 

 

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Clinician

At a major university

“Gen AI isn't about replacing a doctor's training, intuition or expertise, it's about amplifying it. It’s having the world's medical library at your fingertips, instantly summarizing massive amounts of research at the bedside."

 

 

 

MD, CMIO;  University of New Mexico Health

quote author

Clinician

At a major university

"Before I started using ClinicalKey AI, it would take me hours and days to bore through the literature to find exactly the details that I need… Now, in seconds, I can find an answer that would have taken days."

Wilderness Medicine Physician, University of Texas at Austin

“I think the speed of the answer and the ability to ask questions in natural language, as opposed to going in and trying to do a search, gives it a real edge over other clinical resources.”

MD, CMIO; St. Elizabeth Healthcare

“Gen AI isn't about replacing a doctor's training, intuition or expertise, it's about amplifying it. It’s instantly summarizing massive amounts of research at the bedside."

MD, CMIO; University of New Mexico Health

Trusted, evidence-based content powered by AI

Confidence in every search, with content vetted by clinicians and powered by trusted innovation.

How ClinicalKey AI supports your decision making:

  • Explore a variety of disease conditions and medication alternatives, basing decisions on proven clinical practices - while investigating emerging treatments from trusted sources.
  • Quickly search for answers from our comprehensive base of clinical research which draws on the largest group of domain experts to deliver evidence-based content that is updated daily.
  • Enhance decision-making through technology and innovation with access to a responsible AI solution designed specifically for healthcare and built to prevent the creation and reinforcement of bias.

Trusted, evidence-based content powered by AI

  • Explore a variety of disease conditions and medication alternatives, basing decisions on proven clinical practices - while investigating emerging treatments from trusted sources.
  • Quickly search for answers from our comprehensive base of clinical research which draws on the largest group of domain experts to deliver evidence-based content that is updated daily.
  • Enhance decision-making through technology and innovation with access to a responsible AI solution designed specifically for healthcare and built to prevent the creation and reinforcement of bias.

Why ClinicalKey AI?

Vs generic AI tool responses: 

  • With a generic AI tool you could come across suggestions that might not be useful, relevant or grounded in evidence.
  • With ClinicalKey AI, you receive a response founded in evidence, as well as additional information (including citations), and follow-up question suggestions.
  • Continuous evaluation and real-world monitoring address concerns like algorithmic bias and potential unintended consequences, mitigating risks in AI adoption.

Vs other Clinical Decision Support Tools:

  • The information is these tools is typically limited to synoptic clinical content, and is not updated daily.
  • ClinicalKey AI parses the most current and most trusted evidence-based content from journal textbooks, drug monographs, clinical overview, refreshed on a daily basis.
  • Underpinned by Elsevier's five Responsible AI Principles.


Why you'll love ClinicalKey AI

A simple, conversational search tool

Ask questions the way you would speak to a trusted specialist.

Responses that consider patient context when prompted

For example, comorbidities, current medications, age.

Ability to answer niche and complex questions

ClinicalKey AI provides trusted answers to even the most niche clinical questions.

Multiple evidence-based content sources are updated daily.

ClinicalKey AI uses trusted, evidence-based clinical content

Answers include references from detailed, in-depth content with linked citations to supporting published evidence

Generative AI designed specifically for clinical application

Evidence-based clinical content updated daily, accessible in real time.

ClinicalKey AI will be personalized to you

Provides personalized responses based on the clinician’s profile.


What Clinicians are saying about ClinicalKey AI

"Before I started using ClinicalKey AI, it would take me hours and hours and days to bore through the literature to find exactly the details that I need … Now, in seconds, I can find an answer that would have taken days. It's a huge time saver."


John D. Walker MD, FAWM, FNAP; Wilderness Medicine Physician,  University of Texas at Austin

“I think the speed of the answer and the ability to ask questions in natural language, as opposed to going in and trying to do a search, gives it a real edge over other clinical resources. Just to be able to ask a question in natural language and get a very prompt answer that is accurate is great. The fact that it's pointing to evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles is really the key.”


Clinician at a major university