What is MedCite?
MedCite provides healthcare professionals with direct, evidence-based answers to medical questions, supported by clinical guidelines and scientific literature.
It is designed for questions that arise during everyday clinical work, including treatment choices, diagnostic pathways, contraindications, follow-up, risk assessment and interpretation of current evidence.
MedCite does not replace clinical judgement. It helps clinicians find and assess the relevant evidence faster.
How MedCite works
Ask a medical question
Ask in your own words. You can enter a focused question, describe a patient scenario or compare diagnostic and treatment options.
MedCite searches the evidence
MedCite searches trusted clinical guidelines, national healthcare sources and peer-reviewed medical literature, prioritising authoritative and locally relevant guidance where available.
Read and verify the answer
MedCite synthesises the relevant evidence into a readable answer with citations. Every citation links to its original source, so the evidence can be inspected directly.
Choose the level of detail you need
Quick
A concise, clinically useful answer supported by a focused selection of relevant sources.
Use Quick for rapid orientation during everyday clinical work.
Review
A broader evidence search with a more detailed synthesis of guidelines and scientific literature.
Use Review for complex cases, teaching, departmental discussions, protocol development and literature review.
Built for healthcare professionals
MedCite is a medical search and reference tool for qualified healthcare professionals.
It does not diagnose patients, prescribe treatment or make clinical decisions. The treating healthcare professional remains responsible for interpreting the evidence and applying it to the individual patient.
General-purpose AI systems may provide convincing answers without consistently exposing the underlying evidence. MedCite is designed around medical evidence retrieval, source-linked answers and independent verification.
Why MedCite instead of a general AI chatbot?
General AI chatbots are designed to answer almost anything. MedCite is designed to help healthcare professionals find and inspect medical evidence.
| General AI chatbot | MedCite |
|---|---|
| Generates an answer from broad model knowledge | Starts by retrieving relevant medical sources |
| May provide links or citations inconsistently | Links clinical claims to the sources used |
| Usually optimised for general global use | Prioritises national and European clinical context |
| Conversation is the product | Verifiable medical evidence is the product |
| Can confidently produce unsupported details | Restricts claims according to the retrieved evidence |
| Broad consumer tool | Purpose-built clinical reference tool |
MedCite brings guidelines, authority sources and biomedical literature together in one cited answer, so clinicians can move from question to evidence without searching across multiple databases.
Built by clinicians, for clinicians
MedCite was created by healthcare professionals who experienced how much clinical knowledge is available—and how difficult it can be to find, compare and verify during a working day.
The team combines clinical practice, medical research and software development.
Chief Executive Officer
Mahican Gielen is a radiologist and founder of MedCite. She studied technical ICT at Delft University of Technology and completed her medical degree in the Netherlands before specialising in radiology in Denmark. With experience in AI research on medical data, she founded MedCite to make medical evidence easier to access and verify through source-linked summaries for European healthcare.
Chief Technical Officer
Willem Gielen is a cardiologist and software developer based in Denmark. He began professional web development while studying medicine in the Netherlands, building a cardiology department website and later creating Cardiofind, a search engine for cardiology. He combines clinical practice as a cardiologist with software development, leading MedCite's technical development.
Development Partner
MedCite is developed in collaboration with Humanstack.dk.