News
Today, Virtual Hallway launched Asklepius, a first-of-its-kind Canadian clinical AI that combines AI with the insight of Canadian specialists, helping clinicians get trusted answers faster and bringing specialist-informed care to more patients.
Guides & How-Tos
*First in a series adapting our CME talk, “Demystifying AI for Clinicians,” into written form. The series is AI education for clinicians — how these systems actually work, where they fail, and what to ask before trusting one.* In May 2024, Google published the research paper introducing Med-Gemini, its flagship medical AI. It was a […]
CME
Dr. Julie Mongeau on the Laboratory Workup of Early SLE Ordering an ANA “just to rule out lupus” is one of the most common — and most consequential — testing decisions in primary care. In Part 2 of Virtual Hallway’s early SLE diagnosis series, Dalhousie-trained rheumatologist Dr. Julie Mongeau delivered a masterclass on rheumatologic investigations: […]
CME
Dr. Alexandra Legge on the Clinical Assessment of Suspected Connective Tissue Disease Few referrals cause more uncertainty in primary care than the patient with fatigue, joint pain, and a positive ANA. In a recent Virtual Hallway webinar — part one of a two-part series on early SLE diagnosis — Dr. Alexandra Legge, rheumatologist, Director of […]
Guides & How-Tos
There’s been a lot of research published on clinical AI this summer, and it’s worth talking about. In June, a Nature Medicine study compared general-purpose language models against dedicated clinical AI tools — OpenEvidence, UpToDate Expert AI — and found that the general-purpose models outperformed them across medical knowledge benchmarks and real physician queries. Weeks […]
Guides & How-Tos
If you follow clinical AI right now, you’ve seen the race. Every few weeks a new comparison: which model retrieves guidelines faster, which one synthesizes the literature better, which one cites more sources. The benchmarks keep improving, and honestly, the results are impressive. Ask a well-formed question and within seconds you have prescribing information, guideline […]
Clinical Stories
A four-month-old whose weight kept dropping percentiles, an anxious mother doing everything right, a growth chart that told a story her exam didn't, and the 10-minute consult that redirected the workup before rare diseases were chased.
Clinical Stories
Two years of watching an eGFR slowly slip, a patient asking if he was heading for dialysis, outdated worries about starting SGLT2 inhibitors, and the 11-minute consult that stopped the slide for the first time in years.
VH Updates
In this Asklepius release: Seven new clinical calculators spanning cardiology, respirology, psychiatry, nephrology, and neonatology. Calculator UX overhaul: search, favorites, recently used, topic chips, and PDF export. Inline calculator links in chat — jump from prose to a prefilled score without leaving the conversation. Drug Mode improvements: formulation-specific retrieval and collapsible accordions. 👉 Read on […]
Clinical Stories
A funeral for an aunt with ovarian cancer, a mother who'd survived breast cancer at 46, a daughter asking if she should be tested, and the 11-minute consult that clarified who needed testing first and why.
