AI-enabled medical documentation company Abridge, health IT giant Epic and healthcare system Mayo Clinic are partnering to create a genAI documentation platform that integrates Abridge’s tools into Epic’s EHR for Mayo Clinic nurses.
Abridge, founded in 2018, offers an AI tool that records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients. It then organizes and summarizes that information, pulling important details such as health conditions, symptoms and care plans to the top of the report.
The tool can also send notes back to EHRs and integrate with telehealth services.
The companies will combine Abridge’s AI technology, Epic’s development expertise and Mayo Clinic’s nursing practice knowledge to create the genAI ambient documentation workflow tool.
Abridge’s AI technology will be extended and integrated into Epic’s nursing workflow platform to ease Mayo Clinic’s inpatient workflows.
“We are engaging [nurses] directly in the development of this technology to ensure its use meets the unique needs of nursing and patient care workflows along with regulatory requirements for ambient solutions,” Ryannon Frederick, chief nursing officer at Mayo Clinic, said in a statement.
“We are thrilled to bring the knowledge and expertise of our nursing staff to help shape the future of documentation, where documentation could happen automatically and organically.”
The companies plan to have the tool available to nurses by the end of 2024.
THE LARGER TREND
Abridge secured $150 million in Series C funding in February, just four months after securing $30 million in Series B funding. In 2022, it secured $12.5 million in Series A-1 funding.
At the time of the Series C announcement, Abridge relayed that it signed an enterprise agreement with Yale New Haven Health System in Connecticut to give its clinicians access to Abridge’s clinical documentation tools.
In 2023, the company became Epic’s first Pal in the health IT company’s Partners and Pals program, thus allowing Abridge’s platform to be integrated into Epic’s clinical workflows.
The company has also signed agreements with the University of Vermont Health Network, CHRISTUS Health, UChicago Medicine, MemorialCare, Sutter Health, NVIDIA, UCI Health, University of Kansas Health System and Priority Health.
Another company offering AI-enabled ambient documentation is San Francisco-based Augmedix. The company progressed from a Google Glass-based clinical documentation startup to a publicly traded company, first debuting on the NASDAQ through a $40 million IPO in 2021.