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Abridge today announced that UI Health, the academic health enterprise at the University of Illinois Chicago, will deploy its enterprise-grade AI platform across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care.

UPMC is expanding Abridge enterprise-wide, cementing a longstanding partnership forged in Pittsburgh that has scaled from a small pilot to thousands of clinicians using Abridge to document the care they deliver to millions of patients each year.

Northwell Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, announced today its plan to deploy Abridge's ambient artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its 28 hospitals to improve clinical documentation of patient conversations as part of its system-wide digital transformation.

Abridge has finalized an enterprise-wide agreement with Seattle Children’s to deploy its AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform across the health system, following a successful 90-day pilot spanning 18 pediatric specialties. Seattle Children’s, which employs more than 2,000 clinicians and supports over half a million patient visits annually, is implementing Abridge to reduce documentation burden and advance its long-term strategy for pediatric care innovation.

Abridge’s AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform has been selected by Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network, following a rigorous evaluation and successful pilot.

Abridge today announced its collaboration with Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) to enhance clinical documentation, communication, and care outcomes—starting at the point of conversation. HSS, the world’s No. 1 health system for orthopedics, is implementing the Abridge AI platform across the enterprise to enhance care for approximately 200,000 patients annually. As the hospital of choice for athletes from more than 100 professional sports teams and a destination for patients from all 50 states and over 100 countries, HSS performs more than 40,000 surgeries each year. With the lowest orthopedic readmission rates in the nation, it is an ideal environment for advanced, ambient listening technology that helps clinicians document care more efficiently.

Abridge, a leading generative AI platform for clinical conversations, is expanding its capabilities to support inpatient care settings and queue up outpatient orders—extending the value of clinical conversations through additional integrated workflows as part of Workshop, a program through which Epic and Abridge have worked together to develop new, innovative healthcare technologies that are piloted and refined before wider release. These new offerings are already showing impact across care settings from early health system partners.

Abridge has been chosen by AltaMed Health Services Corporation, the nation’s largest federally qualified health center (FQHC), as its AI platform for documenting clinical conversations. Abridge’s enterprise-grade technology supports AltaMed’s diverse multilingual population across the organization in all care settings and specialties.

Sharp HealthCare, the largest integrated health system in San Diego, is implementing the Abridge generative AI platform across the enterprise to create comprehensive, compliant, and billable documentation, enabling clinicians to fully focus on caring for patients. Abridge will now be deployed across Sharp HealthCare locations, which support more than one million patients annually.

Abridge announced that its AI platform to support clinical conversations will be utilized by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) clinicians in an extensive rollout that will take place throughout 2025 and 2026. MSK previously piloted the Abridge AI platform in a viability study conducted by its Digital Informatics & Technology Solutions (DigITs) group through the MSK Innovation Hub program (iHub).

Inova Health, the leading health system in Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC metropolitan region, has selected Abridge as its system-wide generative AI platform for clinical conversations to improve documentation for clinicians. This partnership will enable 1,000+ Inova clinicians to deliver value to patients through more focused visits while saving time and reducing cognitive load. Inova chose Abridge after a rigorous evaluation involving other Ambient AI vendors.

Akron Children's, consistently ranked among the best children’s hospitals in the U.S., is expanding use of the Abridge generative AI platform for clinical conversations across pediatric specialties, including primary care, gastroenterology, cardiology, and pediatric psychiatry.

Abridge, the leading generative AI platform for clinical conversations, has raised a $250 million Series D investment, coinciding with the milestone of surpassing 100 deployments at some of the largest and most complex health systems in the United States. The Series D investment, co-led by Elad Gil and IVP, includes contributions from Bessemer Venture Partners, California Health Care Foundation, CapitalG, CVS Health Ventures, K. Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital, and SV Angel. The investment will fuel additional development of AI capabilities and commercial growth to support broader applications.

UNC Health, one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in the southeast, is expanding the use of Abridge AI across its network of thousands of clinicians to improve the patient and clinician experience.

Abridge, the leading AI platform for clinical conversations, has appointed Sagar Sanghvi as its first Chief Financial Officer for its next phase of growth. With nearly fifteen years of experience as an operator and investor, Sanghvi brings a long history of financial leadership to Abridge as it continues to scale rapidly.

Abridge, a market-leading generative AI platform for clinical conversations, has launched new enhancements designed for the fast-paced environment of emergency care. Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine features seamless integration with Epic’s ASAP module in Haiku and Hyperspace and transforms high-pressure clinical conversations into structured notes.

Abridge has finalized an enterprise-wide agreement with Mayo Clinic to implement the AI-powered clinical documentation platform, starting with approximately 2,000 clinicians who serve over 1 million patients annually across a wide range of specialties and care settings.

Promising results from a pilot program using a generative AI platform to help with clinical documentation show improvements in both patient and clinician experiences at the University of Chicago Medicine, according to survey data of patients at the academic health system. UChicago Medicine will expand the program to more than 800 clinicians across its health system.

Today, Abridge became the first generative AI company to be ranked across three of four categories in the KLAS Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report, which highlights exceptional technology partners based on insights from 49 healthcare-technology thought leaders and executives across the country. The Top 20 consists of the five highest-ranked companies in each of four categories, representing healthcare’s Quadruple Aim—improve outcomes, improve patient experiences, improve clinician experiences, and reduce cost of care. The 2024 edition of the report ranked Abridge first for “Improve Clinician Experience,” third for “Improve Patient Experience,” and fourth for “Improve Outcomes.”

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, has finalized an enterprise-wide expansion agreement with Riverside Health, an integrated care system with over 750 providers in South Eastern Virginia. After evaluating several solutions and a successful two-month pilot, Riverside is implementing Abridge across all care settings and specialties, that will include the emergency department and inpatient hospitals, as well as medical residents and physical therapists.

Abridge is launching the first clinical research collaborative dedicated to studying the impact of ambient AI across five key focus areas: clinician experience, patient experience, healthcare costs, outcomes, and health equity. This independent research effort will bring together experts across academia, professional well-being, informatics, health operations, and policy. The goal is to provide evidence-driven guidance on the use of ambient AI as it becomes ubiquitous in clinical settings.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, has finalized an enterprise-wide agreement with Reid Health, a rural healthcare system that serves 280,000 people in Indiana and Ohio. Abridge has already been used by some clinicians across Reid for six months and will now be available to all clinicians.

Today, Tim Hwang is joining Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, as General Counsel. Hwang, a nationally renowned expert on technology and AI policy, will spearhead legal strategy, public policy, and trust and safety initiatives.

Today, Abridge, Mayo Clinic, and Epic announced a generative AI ambient documentation workflow for nurses. This collaboration will put cutting-edge solutions in the hands of nurses. Powered by Epic, Abridge’s new product combines the strength of Abridge’s generative AI platform with seamless integration into existing Epic nursing workflows.

Today, Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced an enterprise-wide agreement with The University of Vermont Health Network. UVM Health Network, an integrated academic health system serving over 1 million patients in Vermont and northern New York, selected Abridge following a robust vetting process with 50 primary care providers evaluating multiple solutions. Clinicians at UVM Health Network have already been using Abridge’s generative AI solution for 4 months. The enterprise rollout will soon expand to cardiology, endocrinology, and other specialties.

Today, Abridge announced an enterprise-wide agreement with CHRISTUS Health, an international, not-for-profit health system based in Texas with 15,000 physicians and more than 600 care centers. With Abridge’s generative AI solution for clinical documentation in use over the last few months, CHRISTUS clinicians have already experienced a significant reduction in burnout and now give more undivided attention to patients.

Today, Abridge announced that the University of Chicago Medicine will make Abridge's generative AI platform for clinical documentation available to groups of clinicians across their system. UChicago Medicine is focused on improving clinician wellness and transforming the patient experience using evidence-based technology.

Today, MemorialCare and Abridge announced a partnership to make Abridge’s generative AI tool for clinical documentation available to MemorialCare’s physicians across southern California. MemorialCare expects that Abridge will restore the human-to-human connection between clinicians and patients, and strip away the administrative burden for clinicians.

Today, Abridge and Sutter Health announced they will make Abridge’s generative AI platform for clinical documentation available to groups of its physicians across California. Sutter Health expects the broad deployment to improve patients’ experiences by helping support more focused face-time with clinicians.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to utilize NVIDIA’s compute resources, foundation models, and expertise in efficiently deploying AI systems at scale to bolster Abridge’s mission to improve clinician and patient lives through technologies powered by generative AI. The company also announced an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm.

Abridge has announced that UCI Health, the health system of the University of California, Irvine, has adopted its leading generative AI solution for clinical documentation. The deployment will be focused on reducing the burden of clinical documentation and improving operational efficiency for clinicians across the system.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced an additional $150 million investment, leveraging momentum from their product’s rapid uptake among health systems throughout the nation. This raise comes just 4 months after their $30M Series B, and is one of the largest funding rounds made to date in generative AI for healthcare.

Abridge, the leader in evidence-based generative AI for clinical documentation, today announced Abridge Inside—a new offering embedded inside standard Epic workflows. From recording patient conversations in Haiku to embedding AI-generated notes within the patient chart in Hyperdrive, clinicians will be able to harness the power of Abridge from start to finish without ever leaving Epic.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced a Series B raise of $30 million, led by Spark Capital. The round also included existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as several leading healthcare innovators including CVS Health Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Lifepoint Health, Mayo Clinic, SCAN Group, UC Investments (University of California), and the American College of Cardiology. This investment will support large-scale health system rollouts and accelerate product advances that will create additional value for patients, clinicians, and health systems.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced today that healthcare workforce expert Dr. Tina Shah will join its leadership team as Chief Clinical Officer.

Abridge, the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, is now the first Pal in Epic’s Partners and Pals program. The collaboration will make Abridge’s generative AI-based documentation solution available for integration in Epic’s clinical workflows, giving providers the ability to generate real-time, structured summaries of their patient conversations with complete auditability. Together, Abridge and Epic aim to help providers be more present and attentive to patients while also creating better notes, faster.

Today, Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, announced a partnership with The University of Kansas Health System that will mark the most significant rollout to date of generative AI in healthcare. Abridge has already helped more than 2,000 clinicians with their enterprise solutions, and also served more than 200,000 patients with their consumer app. By delivering a solution that optimizes patient-provider communication, the new partnership has the potential to serve and support more than 1,500 practicing physicians across The University of Kansas Health System’s 140+ locations, as well as additional clinicians in a phased rollout.

Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, today announced the appointment of Zachary Lipton as Chief Scientific Officer. Lipton brings with him a wealth of experience through his role as Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and his experience as a research scientist at Amazon AI. His research expertise spans core machine learning methods, with notable contributions in deep learning, natural language processing, and the development of robust and adaptive machine learning algorithms. He has also played a leadership role in the emergence of the study of fairness, accountability and transparency and focused his applied work squarely on problems in clinical medicine.

CB Insights today named Abridge, the leader in medical conversation AI, to its fourth-annual Digital Health 150, showcasing the 150 most promising private digital health companies of 2022.

Abridge, the healthcare conversation company whose mission is to encourage understanding and follow-through across every medical conversation, today announced a partnership with Priority Health, a nationally recognized nonprofit health plan. Priority Health now includes Abridge in its list of supplemental benefits for all Individual Medicare Advantage and Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) members to help them follow through on their care plans.