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AI chatbot ClinicBot grounds medical advice in guidelines with verifiable citations

Researchers have developed ClinicBot, an AI system designed to provide accurate and verifiable clinical support by grounding responses in official medical guidelines. The system addresses the hallucination problem common in large language models by employing a novel retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach. ClinicBot prioritizes evidence based on clinical significance and guideline structure, rather than simple textual similarity, and presents answers with verifiable citations. It has been demonstrated using diabetes-related questions and the American Diabetes Association's Standards of Care. AI

IMPACT This system could improve the reliability of AI in high-stakes medical contexts by ensuring answers are grounded in established guidelines.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper describing a novel AI system for clinical support. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI chatbot ClinicBot grounds medical advice in guidelines with verifiable citations

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Navapat Nananukul, Mayank Kejriwal ·

    ClinicBot: A Guideline-Grounded Clinical Chatbot with Prioritized Evidence RAG and Verifiable Citations

    arXiv:2605.00846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis requires answers that are accurate, verifiable, and explicitly grounded in official guidelines. While large language models excel at natural language processing, their tendency to hallucinate undermines their util…