Introducing a New Reading Experience in Clinical Key

 Clinical Key is a clinical search engine provided for our UHNM users only.

Reading Assistant – a new feature from Clinical Key

Clinical Key is adding a Reading Assistant, an integrated generative AI feature designed to help you quickly comprehend and navigate complex clinical content. This enhancement uses structured summarisation and inline clarification to present key insights from book chapters and journal articles, all while keeping the original expert-authored content fully visible and authoritative.

What the Reading Assistant Provides

1. Concise, structured summaries of the content currently on the page
2. Clarification of complex concepts without changing the underlying evidence
3. Faster navigation through long chapters and dense journal articles
4. Reduced cognitive load when approaching complex or lengthy material

How It Works — Designed for Clinical Reliability

The Reading Assistant has been built with a strong emphasis on safety, privacy, and the integrity of evidence-based content.

It does:

• Summarizes and clarifies licensed ClinicalKey content already on the page
• Maintains full visibility of the authoritative original source
• Enables multilingual interaction without altering the underlying content

It does not:

• Pull from the open web
• Introduce external models trained on unknown data
• Store, process, or retain patient-identifiable information
• Generate new or speculative clinical recommendations
• Replace or override guideline-based or expert-authored content

To see the Reading Assistant in action view a short demonstration video here.

For more help using Clinical Key

• Complete our online tutorial Get started with Clinical Key for an introduction to the key features and video demonstrations
• Book on library training
• Contact the Health Library