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Evidence-Grounded AI for Musculoskeletal Care

Wenjie Li, Yujie Zhang

Featured July 26, 2026

Original Paper

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Simply

A smart AI system called OrthoPilot helps doctors manage bone and joint problems over a long time by combining a patient's hospital records with all the latest medical knowledge, making care more continuous and evidence-based.

In depth
The paper introduces OrthoPilot, an agentic AI system powered by a 32-billion-parameter LLM called CHEESE, designed for continuous, evidence-based musculoskeletal care. It addresses the challenge of fragmented patient data by integrating real-time in-hospital information with authoritative external medical knowledge through a Tool Plaza interface, enabling longitudinal management decisions from diagnosis to rehabilitation.

Key Takeaways

  • 1
    OrthoPilot is an agentic AI system that moves clinical AI beyond isolated predictions to full-pathway, longitudinal management in musculoskeletal care.
  • 2
    The system integrates patient-specific in-hospital data (EHR, imaging, labs) with external medical knowledge (guidelines, literature) through a unified 'Tool Plaza' interface.
  • 3
    Evaluations using the novel OrthoBench benchmark and ORACLE framework demonstrate OrthoPilot's superior performance over human experts and other LLMs, improving decision-making and hospital efficiency.

Conceptual Flow

HIGH LEVEL
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Methodology: Orchestrating Dual Evidence Worlds

The system uses a smart brain to ask for patient details from hospital computers and general medical facts from the internet, then puts them together to help doctors.

Patient's Hospital Data
General Medical Knowledge
Combine and Understand
Smart Care Plan
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Results: Outperforming Experts in Continuous Care

This new system helped doctors make better decisions for patients over their entire treatment journey, even doing better than very experienced specialists.

Old Doctor Decisions
New System Decisions
Compare Performance
Better Patient Outcomes
More Efficient Hospitals

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