Abridge has introduced what it describes as the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform organized around the patient, with the goal of helping health systems coordinate clinical, financial and evidence-based decisions throughout the care journey. The announcement was made during the company’s keynote event in New York and includes a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to develop a foundation model specifically designed for clinical conversations.
The platform is built around clinician-patient interactions and is intended to support workflows before, during and after care encounters. Abridge stated that the technology prepares clinicians with pre-charted notes and patient summaries, provides in-visit clinical support and generates documentation, billing codes and orders following consultations. The platform is integrated with major electronic health record systems including Epic, Oracle Health and athenahealth.
"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," said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge. "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."
The company reported that its technology is now deployed across more than 300 health systems and supports more than 100 million clinical conversations annually. Abridge also announced that Northwestern Medicine is implementing the platform across its hospitals and care settings.
Beyond documentation, the platform incorporates clinical decision support capabilities that integrate evidence 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. Abridge is also expanding into nursing workflows, smart-room integrations and payment alignment initiatives designed to support value-based care and improve claims processing efficiency.
A key component of the announcement is Abridge’s work with NVIDIA to develop a specialized clinical foundation model. Built on the NVIDIA Nemotron open model family and trained using NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure, the model is intended to improve accuracy, reliability, auditability and workflow automation across healthcare settings.
"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."
The platform also supports future collaborations with payers and life sciences organizations, including initiatives related to real-time claims adjudication, clinical trial screening and evidence-based treatment pathways. Through these capabilities, Abridge aims to integrate AI-driven intelligence into the clinical workflows where care decisions are made while maintaining governance, security and clinician oversight.
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