News Release


*For Immediate Release:*

July 23, 2026

 

*Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and OpenEvidence Partner to Connect Physicians with Local Public Health Guidance*

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) and OpenEvidence, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform, today announced a collaboration to help physicians quickly find official LA County Public Health resources when searching for clinical information. Under this new partnership, when physicians in LA County search the platform for selected public health topics, OpenEvidence will display related LA-specific messages from Public Health. The messages connect clinicians to local public health resources and health alerts related to reportable diseases, outbreaks, and other time sensitive public health issues.

“Physicians often need local public health guidance at the same moment they are working through a clinical challenge,” said *Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.* “This collaboration helps bring LA County resources closer to that decision point. A search about measles, TB, or any other reportable condition should not end only with general information but connect to the next step. We want that action to be easy to find and easy to take.”

“Local health departments produce some of the most actionable information in the country, and while they spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing the right guidance, they often have to dedicate considerable extra effort to bring that guidance to the attention of clinicians,” said *Travis Zack, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at OpenEvidence. *“Working with LA County allows us to add practical help when physicians need it, without requiring additional searching.”

The effort builds on OpenEvidence’s experience reaching physicians with public health messaging in New York City in partnership with their Department of Health, Mental Health, and Hygiene. The collaboration comes as Los Angeles County continues to strengthen routine and emergency public health readiness across a large and complex healthcare landscape.

LA County DPH and OpenEvidence plan to evaluate the effort to refine future messages and identify additional areas where local public health guidance can be made easier for physicians to find.

*Contacts*


* LA County Department of Public Health, [email protected]
* OpenEvidence, [email protected]

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"*The Los Angeles County Departmen**t of Public Health* "

"The Department of Public Health is committed to promoting health equity and ensuring optimal health and well -being for all 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. Through a variety of programs, community partnerships and services, Public Health oversees environmental health, disease control, and community and family health. Nationally accredited by the Public Health Accreditation Board, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health comprises of more than 5,000 employees and has an annual budget of $1.3 billion."

 

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"*OpenEvidence* is the fastest-growing and most widely-used clinical decision support platform in the United States, and the most widely used medical search engine among U.S. clinicians. OpenEvidence is trusted by hundreds of thousands of verified healthcare professionals to make high-stakes clinical decisions at the point of care that are sourced, cited, and grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature. Founded with the mission to organize and expand global medical knowledge, OpenEvidence is actively used daily, on average, by the majority of physicians in the United States. Learn more at openevidence.com [ [link removed] ]"

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