Abridge

Abridge is a healthcare technology company founded in 2018 that provides an AI-powered platform for clinical documentation. The platform converts patient-clinician conversations into structured, clinically useful and billable documentation in real time. It is designed for health systems, with deep integration into electronic medical record (EMR/EHR) systems, and it maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth through what the company describes as auditable AI. The company operates across the United States.

The company's technical work spans generative AI, ambient AI and speech recognition, natural language processing, clinical documentation automation and revenue cycle AI. Its single product, the Abridge AI Clinical Documentation Platform, is projected to support more than 80 million conversations this year and is used by more than 250 of the largest and most complex health systems in the country. The work sits within a market the company frames around $600 billion to $1 trillion in annual US healthcare administrative burden.

Clinicians using the platform report a 78% decrease in cognitive load, with 86% doing less after-hours work, 90% giving more undivided attention to patients and 53% seeing an improvement in professional fulfilment. Abridge has been recognised as Best in KLAS for Ambient AI in the Revenue Cycle category. The company was founded by Dr. Shiv Rao, a practising cardiologist, and emphasises enterprise-grade technology, deep EMR integration and responsible deployment of AI in clinical settings.