AI-enabled medical documentation firm Abridge, well being IT big Epic and healthcare system Mayo Clinic are partnering to create a genAI documentation platform that integrates Abridge’s instruments into Epic’s EHR for Mayo Clinic nurses.
Abridge, based in 2018, provides an AI instrument that information and transcribes conversations between suppliers and sufferers. It then organizes and summarizes that data, pulling necessary particulars equivalent to well being circumstances, signs and care plans to the highest of the report.
The instrument can even ship notes again to EHRs and combine with telehealth providers.
The businesses will mix Abridge’s AI expertise, Epic’s growth experience and Mayo Clinic’s nursing observe data to create the genAI ambient documentation workflow instrument.Β Β Β
Abridge’s AI expertise might be prolonged and built-in into Epic’s nursing workflow platform to ease Mayo Clinic’s inpatient workflows.Β
“We’re partaking [nurses] straight within the growth of this expertise to make sure its use meets the distinctive wants of nursing and affected person care workflows together with regulatory necessities for ambient options,” Ryannon Frederick, chief nursing officer at Mayo Clinic, mentioned in an announcement.
“We’re thrilled to convey the data and experience of our nursing employees to assist form the way forward for documentation, the place documentation might occur routinely and organically.”
The businesses plan to have the instrument obtainable to nurses by the tip of 2024.Β
THE LARGER TREND
Abridge secured $150 million in Collection C funding in February, simply 4 months after securing $30 million in Collection B funding. In 2022, it secured $12.5 million in Collection A-1 funding.Β
On the time of the Collection C announcement, Abridge relayed that it signed an enterprise settlement with Yale New Haven Well being System in Connecticut to provide its clinicians entry to Abridge’s medical documentation instruments.Β
In 2023, the corporate grew to become Epic’s first Pal within the well being IT firm’s Companions and Buddies program, thus permitting Abridge’s platform to be built-in into Epic’s medical workflows.Β
The corporate has additionally signed agreements with the College of Vermont Well being Community, CHRISTUS Well being, UChicago Medication, MemorialCare, Sutter Well being, NVIDIA, UCI Well being, College of Kansas Well being System and Precedence Well being.
One other firm providing AI-enabled ambient documentation is San Francisco-based Augmedix. The corporate progressed from a Google Glass-based medical documentation startup to a publicly traded firm, first debuting on the NASDAQ via a $40 million IPO in 2021.
