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AI · August 7, 2023

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Medical LLM API on par with Google Med-PaLM 2. 92% USMLE accuracy

Hello HN! I’d like to share a medical question-answering API which has state-of-the-art performance on the USMLE self-assessment exam. You can try out the MediSearch API in 10 seconds in this Colab [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-colab], or test the search engine live at MediSearch [https://medisearch.io]. See our API page [https://medisearch.io/api] to apply for access. Some technical highlights: 1. State-of-the-art accuracy of 92% on the USMLE self-assessment exam [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-eval]. 2. Ranked 2nd on MedQA benchmark,…

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MediSearch is a medical question-answering API that achieves 92% accuracy on USMLE self-assessment exams and ranks second on the MedQA benchmark. It is designed for developers building medical applications, such as chatbots or search features within healthcare software. The API provides answers with article references to support clinical decision-making and medical research.

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Hello HN! I’d like to share a medical question-answering API which has state-of-the-art performance on the USMLE self-assessment exam. You can try out the MediSearch API in 10 seconds in this Colab [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-colab], or test the search engine live at MediSearch [https://medisearch.io]. See our API page [https://medisearch.io/api] to apply for access. Some technical highlights: 1. State-of-the-art accuracy of 92% on the USMLE self-assessment exam [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-eval]. 2. Ranked 2nd on MedQA benchmark, closely tailing Google's Med-PaLM 2 (within ~2%). 3. The API provides article references as an output. We’d love to hear feedback from this community! We’ve seen people use the MediSearch API to implement a chat bot or search field within their app. Please note that MediSearch does not have a 100% accuracy. Therefore, a human professional should always make a final decision on the information suggested by MediSearch. You can use the MediSearch API similarly to the OpenAI API [https://pypi.org/project/medisearch-client/]. If you’d like access to the MediSearch API, please email [email protected] or visit our API page [https://medisearch.io/api]. Please specify your use case in the application.

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