For oncology and clinical research

Medical
AI agents

AI assists. People decide.

Specialized digital assistants for patients, physicians, researchers and coordinators. Not a universal chat interface, but a team of bounded agents around a real healthcare process.

Synthetic scenariosNo autonomous clinical decisionsSources remain visible
HUMANClinical decisionprofessional oversight
01Patientpathway
02Physiciancopilot
03Researcherevidence
04Coordinatorworkflow
not one super-agent×not a physician replacement×not a black boxroles, controls and handoffs

Product system

Four agents.
Four boundaries.

Each assistant receives only the context required for its role, knows when to stop and hands a reviewable result to a person.

01

Patient and family

Care-path navigator

Clarifies the next step and helps people stay oriented between appointments.

  • prepares questions for the care team
  • reminds users about documents
  • explains non-clinical steps
  • escalates complex cases to a person
Stop line

Does not diagnose, prescribe treatment or assess urgency instead of a clinician.

Metriccompleted pathway · escalations · comprehension

02

Physician

Clinical copilot

Reduces routine work around a decision without making the decision.

  • drafts a clinical note
  • links facts to sources
  • flags missing information
  • records clinician edits
Stop line

Does not sign records, alter prescriptions or present unchecked text as clinical fact.

Metricdrafting time · corrections · acceptance

03

Researcher

Research copilot

Speeds up source review, protocol analysis and preparation of an auditable hypothesis.

  • finds primary sources
  • compares criteria
  • maintains an evidence trail
  • prepares reviewer questions
Stop line

Does not replace the statistician, ethics committee, principal investigator or peer review.

Metricsearch time · completeness · reviewer errors

04

Coordinator

Operations agent

Moves an administrative task forward while making every action visible.

  • checks completeness
  • coordinates time windows
  • sends reminders
  • builds an exception queue
Stop line

Does not determine trial eligibility, interpret tests or hide automated actions.

Metriccycle time · incomplete tasks · touchpoints

Trust architecture

The agent never bypasses the person.

Every clinically material action passes through four visible layers.

  1. 1
    Context

    Only authorized data and the user’s role

  2. 2
    Agent

    One bounded workflow and predictable actions

  3. 3
    Controls

    Sources, logs and stopping rules

  4. 4
    Person

    Confirms the clinical or research decision

Market atlas · 18 Aug 2026

What is already used
in real workflows.

Solutions shown: 8

Ambient documentationProduction deployment

Abridge

Turns clinician–patient conversations into reviewable draft notes linked to the source conversation.

Pattern to reuse

A draft inside the workflow, traceability and mandatory professional review.

Evidence boundary

Scale and outcome claims come from the vendor and cannot be transferred to a local pilot without validation.

Abridge
Clinical workflowProduction deployment

Microsoft Dragon Copilot

Supports draft clinical documentation and compatible EHR workflows.

Pattern to reuse

Role-specific interfaces, workflow integration and confirmation before the record is finalized.

Evidence boundary

Microsoft limits the product to support for qualified professionals; it does not replace medical judgment.

Microsoft Learn
Evidence searchClinical reference workflow

OpenEvidence

Provides clinicians with literature-linked answers; Cedars-Sinai has reported EHR integration.

Pattern to reuse

Evidence stays next to the answer and inside the professional workspace.

Evidence boundary

Evidence retrieval does not replace appraisal of study quality or clinical judgment.

Cedars-Sinai
Care navigationPatient navigation

Ada

Uses conversational symptom assessment to route users toward an appropriate level of care and local resources.

Pattern to reuse

A clear dialogue, a localized pathway and an explicit handoff to care.

Evidence boundary

Each language, population and local pathway requires separate clinical validation.

Ada Health
Non-diagnostic agentsScaled communications

Hippocratic AI

Supports non-diagnostic tasks such as outreach, reminders, information collection and structured handoff.

Pattern to reuse

Narrow roles, non-diagnostic tasks and a return path to the responsible organization.

Evidence boundary

Vendor claims about scale and safety require independent validation and do not justify high-risk expansion.

Agent API
Multi-agent platformRussian product platform

SberMedAI · Digital Assistant

The official product page describes management of agents for medical and operational tasks.

Pattern to reuse

Russian-language clinical context, specialized agents and process integration.

Evidence boundary

Functions, training-data scale and effects are vendor-reported; each clinical scenario needs independent local evaluation.

SberMedAI
Trial matchingResearch system

TrialGPT

An NLM and NCI system for search, matching and ranking of clinical trials, evaluated in a pilot user study.

Pattern to reuse

Search, criterion-level explanations and ranking for expert review.

Evidence boundary

Research results do not authorize autonomous screening or enrolment.

National Cancer Institute
Operational assistantsHospital operations

Qventus

Operational assistants support outreach, task tracking, missing-information collection and coordination.

Pattern to reuse

The agent advances an administrative task and maintains an exception queue.

Evidence boundary

Vendor performance figures require local comparative validation.

Qventus

Publications

Map the market.
Verify the boundaries.

An English knowledge base on medical AI agents, clinical trials and oncology pathways, with dates and sources that can be checked.

All publications

Science and methods

From a hypothesis
to testable evidence

See how failures, human oversight and workflow effects should be measured—not only which products exist.

Open the science section
  1. 01Intended use and boundaries
  2. 02Synthetic evaluation
  3. 03Offline validation
  4. 04Clinical evaluation

Implementation strategy

Reuse patterns.
Validate outcomes.

We reuse specialization, workflow integration, source traceability and human handoff. Outcomes are measured in the local pilot.

00

Track 00

Closed synthetic prototype

Four roles, fictional cases, source library and action log. No real medical data.
Now
01

Track 01

Measurable base pathways

Four navigation scenarios: clinical trials, OMS, VMP and self-pay services. Each is evaluated separately.
Base pathways
02

Track 02

Expert review

Clinicians and coordinators label omissions, unsupported answers, time and reasons for escalation.
Before use
03

Track 03

Permissioned integration

Connection only after legal, security, clinical and operational readiness.
Separate decision

Proposed base pathways

Four scenarios for staged evaluation

Each pathway is designed as a separate agent workflow with traceable sources and a clear handoff.

01

Oncology clinical-trial navigation

Find current studies, show criterion-level rationale and hand the enquiry to a coordinator and physician.

02

Oncology care navigation under Russia’s mandatory health insurance (OMS)

Explain the official OMS pathway, questions for the physician and commonly required documents.

03

Oncology care navigation for high-technology medical care (VMP)

Explain referral grounds, VMP paperwork and the route to a specialist medical center.

04

Oncology care navigation for self-pay services

Compare service scope, clinical assumptions, documents and cost transparency without selecting treatment.

Safety by default

Boundaries first.
Autonomy later.

01

Human confirmation

Diagnosis, prescriptions, trial enrolment and other clinical decisions remain with an authorized professional.

02

Source beside the claim

Material outputs are linked to a document, version and reviewable passage.

03

Minimum necessary data

The agent receives only what it needs. The public demonstration does not use real medical data.

04

Logs and reversibility

Actions and escalations are recorded; automated steps should be visible and, where possible, reversible.

05

Test before scale

Start with one bounded task, an error set and stopping criteria, then seek expert evaluation.

06

Emergency exit

The agent does not replace emergency services. In an emergency, contact local services; in Russia call 112 or 103.

Open design track

Have a workflow that needs an agent?

Propose one specific task for a patient, physician, researcher, coordinator or healthcare organization—without medical data or a promise of implementation.

Propose your agent

Review basis · 18 Aug 2026

Primary and official sources