The one-liner: why the most important number in every risk model is structurally unknowable, three health system heavyweight leaders on Becker's this Tuesday, welcoming CVA USA clinicians, our biggest product launch in Evidently history coming September 14, teaching AI a powerful medication safety Skill, and finding V-tach buried deep in the chart of an ED waiting room patient.
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Trust But Verify: September 2026 Edition

This Tuesday on Becker’s: Hard ROI & Repeatable Outcomes from AI 🏥
David Marcozzi, MD commanded COVID-19 incident response across an 11-hospital system. Jim Blum, MD co-authored the first peer-reviewed study on AI-driven clinical documentation outcomes. Spencer Dorn, MD has led clinical informatics at UNC Health for over a decade.On Tuesday they join our very own Kalie Dove-Maguire, MD on Becker's to talk about what changed when their clinicians finally had the patient’s entire longitudinal history at their fingertips. This is a conversation of healthcare heavyweights if there ever was one.

Risk Models Are Confident. They’re Also Frequently Wrong 🚨
A clinical leader at a value-based care organization said something on a call recently that our CRO Casey Conlon has been talking about all week. Major depression carries a meaningful RAF weight. Mild depression carries zero. The evidence that separates them is usually already in the chart. Just invisible at the point of care. His post digs into what that one example reveals about the structural problem we see over and over in customer deployments.

A Whole New Way to Interact with the Patient Chart, Coming Sept 14. See it Live at Beckers in Chicago 🚀
Everyone here at Evidently HQ has been heads-down for the last few months refining something we’re all really proud of. A huge thank you to all of our beta testers as we’ve iterated. Last week an oncologic surgeon told me “this gives me goosebumps. It feels like something from a movie but it’s real and already knows my patient.”The team will be at Becker’s in Chicago for Health IT week showing off all the new functionality - come get a hands-on demo!And if you want the behind-the-scenes dish from the people who built it, we have one (maybe two) spots left for The Full Course: Dinner with Evidently & Friends on Tuesday 9/15 at 5pm, walking distance from the Hilton. Reply and let me know if you’re interested!

Welcome aboard CVA USA Clinicians! 🩺🩵
We're thrilled to have you, and we can't wait to see what kinds of Skills you write. Last month we asked University Health Texas transplant team for brisket recommendations and got some great ones. This month we're coming to you: best caffe americano near your location, go! Reply to this email and let us know where to go next time we're in town!

Skill of the Month: Safe to Prescribe 💊
I know I say every Skill of the Month is my new favorite, and this one is no exception. This month's Skill comes from John Garvey IV, a medical student. It cross-references a patient's full history, chronic conditions, and current medications against the 10 most common hospital-acquired illnesses, flagging what's safe to prescribe and what isn't.
Running it on Jane Doe, one of our synthetic ICU patients with a very complex medical history shows how critical specific details can be: for a patient on CVVH with recent GI bleeding and ulcerative colitis, John’s Skill flags TMP-SMX for a urinary tract infection not because of the kidneys, but because the patient's on spironolactone, making hyperkalemia the real risk.

Live Webinar, Oct 1: How UNC Health Evaluated Clinical Data Intelligence and Scaled Fast 🚀
I’m really looking forward to this conversation with our President Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire and Vineeta Khemani, Executive Director of ISD Enterprise Architecture & Clinical Systems at UNC Health. Hear the story first-hand from a UNC leader - clinicians saving up to 40 minutes a day on chart review. Surfacing an average of three to four additional quality-impacting diagnoses per chart.
And how the results shaped a fast expansion across hospitals and clinics in the Triangle Region, and not just for physicians. Pharmacists, social workers, clinical documentation specialists, the full care team.

V-Tach Buried Deep in the Haystack 🪡
This story happened late last year and I still think about it at least once a week. A patient in their mid-30s walks into the ED with anxiety and palpitations. Routine presentation. The clinician opens Evidently routinely and sees a dramatically different story. An implanted cardiac defibrillator. Congenital heart repair. And a history of recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
Kalie, Kai, and Mara talk about what happens when having full patient complexity at your fingertips means it’s time to get that patient out of the ED waiting room ASAP.

Come Say Hi at Events This Fall 📍️
Evidently Scaling Health AI Fall Summit - next week!
Looking forward to seeing all of you coming to our Scaling Health AI Summit next week! Buckle up for the new product sneak peek. It's a doozy.
Becker’s Health IT & RCM - 9/14 in Chicago, IL
Booth #5218. One (maybe two!) seats available for The Full Course: Beckers dinner event. Respond to this email if you're interested!
ACEP 2026 - 10/5 back in Chicago, ILBooth #3212. 3 seats available for The Full Course: ACEP dinner event. Respond & let me know you're in!
AMIA Symposium 2026 - 11/7 in Dallas, TX
See our very own Dr. Karen Sedivy's talk on AI impact across major health systems. 5 seats available for The Full Course: AMIA dinner event. We'll have the whole Evidently informatics crew at Symposium this year, and a very special guest - are you in? Respond "informatics nerds unite" to grab a seat

Ask Evidently has been a game-changer for our providers. It empowers clinicians with a chat tool that has already read the patient chart, letting them spend more time asking important questions and less time on exhausting chart biopsy. And it aligns with our goals at Allina Health to provide effective and efficient experiences for our patients.”

Evidently is a modern clinical intelligence platform that gives healthcare organizations superpowers.
From H&P to CDI review, pre-charting, chart summarization, risk adjustment and more, we’re your partner for AI in healthcare, helping to increase revenue and decrease clinician burnout. We’d love to show you a demo