Who is BMJ Group?
For over 180 years, BMJ Group has been a trusted global healthcare knowledge provider, helping clinicians, researchers, and health systems make better decisions through rigorous, transparent, and high-quality clinical evidence. While known for The BMJ and its specialist journals, BMJ Group goes beyond publishing, delivering practical tools and guidance that translate evidence into everyday clinical practice.
Its digital health products provide curated, current evidence and step-by-step clinical guidance to support diagnosis, treatment, and patient care worldwide. By combining trusted research with actionable decision support, BMJ Group empowers medical professionals to improve outcomes and deliver safer, more effective care every day.
What Does it Mean that BMJ Group is a Heidi Evidence Partner?
The partnership between Heidi and BMJ Group addresses the growing crisis of "evidence overload" and the safety risks of non-validated AI tools. By bringing BMJ Group content directly into Heidi Evidence, clinicians no longer need to switch between fragmented tools or face paywall friction during patient care if the user has authorised access.
The risk of fragmented evidence access for clinicians
The challenges healthcare professionals face in accessing and utilizing clinical evidence are significant, contributing to potential errors and inefficiencies in patient care:
- Scattered guidelines in high-pressure clinical settings lead to cognitive overload and delayed decisions.
- Poor access to evidence increases the risk of using outdated information or relying on unverified LLMs that potentially offer inaccurate recommendations.
Reducing organisational risk through source control
For health systems, integrating trusted sources like those from BMJ Group into a governed AI workflow offers several key benefits:
- Reduces clinical variation and medicolegal risk: Fragmentation of information access is mitigated.
- Standardizes practice: Ensures consistency across the care team by aligning with the latest evidence.
How Heidi makes BMJ Group content accessible in the workflow
Heidi Evidence enhances the clinical workflow with BMJ Group through:
- Surfacing the most relevant research and treatment protocols at the point of care.
- Providing evidence-based answers and transparent citations directly within the natural documentation workflow.
- Bridging the gap between global evidence and local clinical practice without the need for separate searches.
BMJ Group provides trusted, evidence-based, and continually updated clinical knowledge, structured to reflect real patient workflows. When this content is used within healthcare technologies such as Heidi, it helps clinicians focus on patient care with increased confidence, leading to safer, more consistent, and evidence-based care.
Louise Crowe
How Heidi Evidence Works with BMJ Group
Heidi’s newly launched product Evidence uses contextual understanding to provide structured clinical answers that draw directly from BMJ Group's clinical decision support information.
What healthcare professionals receive is structured, citation-backed clinical answers within existing workflows, so when a question arises mid-consult, you get guidance grounded in peer-reviewed research without leaving the patient.
Rapid clinical queries and differential building
When a clinician faces a complex patient presentation, they can use Heidi Evidence to cross-reference symptoms with BMJ Group’s evidence-based content quickly.
This supports faster differential building and ensures that management plans are aligned with the latest evidence-based algorithms rather than anecdotal practice.
Contextual evidence in consultation notes
Heidi helps generate structured clinical notes that are both accurate and defensible. By surfacing BMJ Group citations relevant to the specific case being documented, clinicians can easily validate their reasoning, ensuring that every note is backed by trusted guidance before it is finalized.
Clinician control and transparency
At all times, the clinician remains the final decision-maker. Heidi surfaces the evidence with full transparency, allowing clinicians to review, validate, and verify every source. The tool informs the decision. The judgment stays with the clinician.
Evidence, in the Flow of Care
Heidi is the world’s leading AI care partner, designed to do more than just scribe. By integrating trusted evidence into an efficient documentation workflow, we help clinicians reclaim their time and focus on what matters most: the patient.
- 2 hours saved per clinician per day
- 20 million consults in the UK since launch
- Rated 93.1 by KLAS Research, above the category average
