Abridge has launched an AI clinician intelligence platform designed around patients and healthcare providers. The AI clinician intelligence platform supports clinical workflows and decision-making. Moreover, the AI clinician intelligence platform helps improve care delivery, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes.
During its Keynote event in New York City, Abridge introduced the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform built around the patient experience. The platform aims to address healthcare fragmentation and workflow complexity. As a result, clinicians can spend more time with patients and less time on administrative work.
Abridge designed the platform around a simple principle. The foundation of healthcare begins with a clinician caring for a patient. Therefore, the platform integrates intelligence directly into existing clinical workflows. It prepares clinicians before visits, assists during patient conversations, and reduces documentation tasks afterward.
In addition, Abridge supports emerging care delivery models, payment alignment initiatives, and evidence-based treatment approaches. The platform also enables health systems to work more effectively with payers and life sciences organizations through trusted clinical workflows.
“We started Abridge to save time, save money, and save lives. This next chapter brings trusted intelligence into the most important moment in medicine: a clinician caring for a patient. By grounding AI in the clinical conversation, Abridge can free clinicians to focus more on the practice of medicine and less on the process, help health systems improve care delivery, align payment with the care actually delivered, and connect patients to evidence and resources that can improve outcomes,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge.
Currently, Abridge supports more than 300 health systems. These organizations include community health centers, specialty hospitals, and major healthcare providers. Together, these partners support more than 100 million clinical conversations annually and serve over 250 million patients. The company also announced that Northwestern Medicine will deploy the platform across all hospitals and care settings.
“By easing documentation demands with Abridge, our clinicians are able to be more present with their patients, resulting in more meaningful interactions and a stronger care experience. Just as importantly, it helps support continuity across the patient journey, enabling more coordinated care before, during, and after each visit,” said Doug King, Chief Information Officer, Northwestern Medicine.
Platform Supports Clinicians Before, During, and After Care
Abridge continues expanding beyond documentation support. The platform now functions as an intelligence layer throughout the care journey. Before appointments, the system prepares clinicians using pre-charted notes and specialty-specific patient summaries.
For inpatient care, it creates pre-round notes using emergency department records, nursing assessments, laboratory results, imaging reports, and hospital documentation. For outpatient visits, clinicians receive pre-drafted histories and summaries based on previous patient interactions and longitudinal care records.
Additionally, the platform identifies care gaps and chronic conditions before appointments begin. During patient visits, Abridge delivers real-time support. Consequently, clinicians can access relevant discussion topics and evidence-based information without switching applications.
The platform’s speech recognition and note-generation technology supports more than 28 languages across specialties and care environments. After appointments, Abridge generates documentation, patient summaries, billing codes, orders, and flowsheets for review. Furthermore, clinicians can customize outputs using natural language commands before transferring records into electronic health records. The platform integrates with major EHR systems, including Epic, Oracle Health, and athenahealth.
“The patient-provider relationship is at the heart of quality health care, and OCHIN’s goal with every technology integration we offer our members is to support that essential relationship. We are grateful for our innovative partnership with Abridge, which has helped our members reduce clinician burden and free up their capacity to focus on what matters most: caring for their patients in rural and lower-resourced communities,” said Abby Sears, President and CEO of OCHIN.
Clinical Decision Support and Nursing Innovation
Abridge also introduced advanced Clinical Decision Support capabilities. The solution combines trusted medical evidence with patient records and ongoing clinical conversations.
The platform incorporates content from organizations including the American Diabetes Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, Neurology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate, The New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA.
As a result, clinicians receive patient-specific insights at the point of care. Additionally, Abridge is expanding support for nursing teams. The platform captures nurse-patient conversations and converts them into structured draft documentation within the EHR. Hence, information gathered at the bedside becomes part of the broader clinical picture.
“Abridge gives our nurses something invaluable back—their presence. When they’re not buried in documentation, they can actually be with their patients. That’s the real win. Abridge has helped us bring our nursing vacancy rate down from 18% to 8.6% with zero contract staff, and we’ve cut incidental overtime by 70% on the teams where we’ve rolled this out. When you factor in that retraining a single nurse costs nearly $100,000, the financial impact is already significant,” said Misti Foust-Cofield, Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer, Reid Health.
The company is also developing smart room integrations with Artisight and hellocare.ai to enhance inpatient care workflows.
Abridge and NVIDIA Build Clinical AI Foundation Model
Abridge announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop a foundation model built specifically for clinical conversations. The model will support documentation, workflow automation, evidence-based reasoning, and clinical decision support.
The project builds on the NVIDIA Nemotron open model family and NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure. Training will use advanced processes and de-identified healthcare data. Consequently, the model will improve accuracy, reliability, customization, and auditability across healthcare environments.
“Abridge reset the clinical experience for physicians and patients alike—and every deployment makes their clinical intelligence smarter and more capable,” said Kimberly Powell, Vice President, Healthcare, NVIDIA. “Nemotron is the open frontier model created exactly for this moment, giving Abridge the foundation to break new ground across the entire healthcare ecosystem.”
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