Doximity Ask vs Vera Health (2026)
Two clinical answer tools free to verified clinicians, built on different ideas. Doximity Ask, formerly Doximity GPT, sits inside the professional network most United States clinicians already use. It answers with inline citations, draws drug answers from monographs grounded in FDA labeling, reads uploaded documents and drafts the letters around care. Vera Health, run by Veracity-Health Inc., is a clinical evidence search engine that retrieves and grades evidence before it writes a short cited answer, and it awards continuing education credit per search. A clinician who wants answers and paperwork in one place they already use looks at Doximity Ask. One who wants a graded evidence search looks at Vera Health.
- Answers and administrative drafting in one tool: prior authorization requests, appeal letters, letters of medical necessity and patient communications.
- Already inside a network most US clinicians belong to, so adoption needs no decision by anyone else.
- A named SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, a public SOC 3 report and a business associate agreement entered with every member.
- Retrieval first by design over a stated corpus of more than 60 million papers, guidelines and care pathways, with evidence grading before generation.
- The full text of its business associate agreement is published at a public address.
- Continuing education credit accrues per search.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Doximity Ask and Vera Health are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Doximity Ask | Vera Health |
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| Primary category | Clinical Reference & Evidence | Clinical Reference & Evidence |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | San Francisco, California |
| Website | doximity.com | verahealth.ai |
Side by Side
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Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
Doximity Ask
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Safety / governance
Doximity launched DoseCheck, a rule based check that tests every dosing claim in a Doximity Ask answer against a structured drug database built from FDA labeling and professional guidelines, instead of asking a model to grade itself.
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Clinical evidence
Doximity published Bedside Bench, an open source clinical AI benchmark of 500 cases across 10 sub benchmarks, including drug safety, guideline adherence, landmark trials, hallucination and false premises, health equity and diagnostic safety.
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Vera Health
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Clinical evidence
Vera Health ran 100 questions from the public Real-POCQi dataset of real physician questions through Vera and three frontier models, and reused the study's published answers from OpenEvidence and GPT-5.5.
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Safety / governance
Vera Health described how it governs answer quality.
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Each vendor in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph opens the AI Health Index profile of the vendor: what the product is, who buys it and what it does.
Doximity Ask, formerly Doximity GPT, is the clinical AI assistant inside Doximity's professional network, whose members include more than 85 percent of US doctors. It is free on desktop and mobile to verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students. Its clinical reference layer came from Pathway (Pathway Medical), the Montreal company Doximity acquired in July 2025, whose medical corpus and model were built into Ask that September.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Clinical evidence search engine for licensed clinicians, operated by Veracity-Health Inc., a Delaware corporation with a San Francisco address, and free to verified clinicians and trainees with unlimited searches. The product is built retrieval first, which the company describes as the reverse of assistants that generate first.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Doximity Ask and Vera Health work with the EHR?
Clinicians bring material in by uploading lab reports, imaging summaries, notes and letters, and send drafted letters out through Doximity's own secure fax; drafted notes are copied into the record by hand.
With Vera Health, the company's home page, FAQ, privacy policy and business associate agreement name no record system, marketplace listing, FHIR or HL7 conformance, or public API, and make no integration claim. The product is delivered on the web and as mobile apps and is used alongside the record rather than inside it; the privacy policy mentions third party integrations only in general terms. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Doximity Ask and Vera Health priced and sold?
Doximity Ask is free on desktop and mobile to verified US clinicians, with unlimited access and no paid tier described, so the full cost to an individual is clear without speaking to anyone.
The FAQ states that Vera is free for licensed clinicians and trainees, with unlimited searches and ongoing updates at no charge, on signing up with professional credentials. A clinician can see the full cost of the product they will use, and start, without speaking to anyone. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Doximity Ask and Vera Health handle patient data?
Doximity's member business associate agreement allows it to deidentify protected health information to the HIPAA standard and says deidentified data 'may be used, disclosed, and commercialized ... for any lawful purpose, including product development'. It also says return or destruction of protected health information at termination is not feasible, so Doximity may retain it under the agreement's continuing protections.
In Vera Health's case, the privacy policy (last updated 15 July 2026) states that personal data is not used to train the company's AI systems, and commits to data minimization with encryption, access controls and anonymization or pseudonymization for data used in training. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Doximity Ask and Vera Health cover?
For Doximity Ask, the product serves verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students, and covers clinical questions, drug information, literature, document review, clinical notes, patient communications and administrative letters.
With Vera Health, the corpus is given as more than 60 million papers, guidelines and care pathways, with calculators, differential diagnosis and treatment plan views, and the home page's example questions span endocrinology, family medicine, oncology and emergency medicine. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 23, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Clinical Decision Support page.
Vera Health's record has not yet been reviewed on this site, so its side of this page rests on the build record. Both are free to clinicians and funded elsewhere, so ask what each business gets from the attention.
Neither publishes a peer reviewed evaluation of its answers. Doximity's PeerCheck panel reviews Ask's answers without publishing results, and Vera Health's figures are its own. Neither publishes a record system integration or a bias or subgroup analysis. Doximity's member agreement lets it commercialize deidentified data, including for product development.