Abridge and UChicago Medicine to Collaborate on Research Using AI-Generated Clinical Conversation Data
09 May 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
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.
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UChicago Medicine and Abridge will collaborate on research as
part of the initial deployment, measuring how Abridge’s
Epic-integrated AI platform impacts clinician wellness, retention,
and patient outcomes. Several health systems across the country are
already evaluating the improvement in clinician well-being with
Abridge. UChicago Medicine teams hope to take a deeper look at
additional population health signals that may be derived from
structured clinical conversation data, including more accurately
capturing the social determinants of health impacting their most
complex and vulnerable patients.
“The ability to effortlessly and accurately capture every
clinician-patient conversation will be one of the most important
paradigm shifts in healthcare within our careers,” said Dr. Sachin
D. Shah, Chief Medical Information Officer, UChicago Medicine. “We
hope this type of emerging technology will not only allow our
clinicians to focus more completely on their patients, but also
help us explore new insights from their conversations. Until now,
these conversations have been a lost dataset. Having more
structured data enables us to know and care for our patients
better, while also analyzing key metrics that we have never before
been able to measure.”
Abridge generates a draft note in real-time based on the
conversation between the clinician and patient. Once clinicians
review and verify the note, the patient record in Epic is updated
automatically. UChicago Medicine will also serve as a development
site for new experimental workflows enabled by Abridge’s
co-development relationship with Epic.
“We are excited to work with UChicago Medicine, and deploy
technology that improves the care delivery experience,” said Dr.
Shiv Rao, CEO and Founder of Abridge. “We are also privileged to
partner together on a broader research vision, studying the impact
of responsible AI on a diverse clinician and patient
population.”
This news follows successful deployments of the Abridge
technology at Sutter Health, Yale New Haven Health System, UCI
Health, Emory Healthcare, The University of Kansas Health System,
UPMC, and dozens of other health systems. Abridge recently
announced a $150M Series C financing, which includes a strategic
investment from NVIDIA.
About Abridge
Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper
understanding in healthcare. The AI-powered platform was
purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical
documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on
what matters most—their patients. With support for 14+ languages
and 50+ specialties, Abridge is able to support a wide range of
clinician and patient encounters.
Abridge’s enterprise-grade technology transforms
patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in
real-time with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence
and their auditable AI, Abridge is the only company that maps
AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly
trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for
healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standards for the
responsible deployment of AI across health systems.
In a survey by KLAS across multiple systems that have adopted
the platform, Abridge scored a 95.3 rating (out of 100) with a
grade of A+ on the likelihood to recommend, and time to outcomes
being reported as immediate. Abridge was also recently recognized
on the 2024 Forbes AI 50 list, alongside companies like OpenAI,
Anthropic, Databricks, and others.
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