Abridge partners with Epic, Mayo Clinic to create a genAI nurse workflow tool

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 durante 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 sommità of the report.

The tool can also send agenda 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 durante 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 durante a statement.

“We are thrilled to bring the knowledge and expertise of our nursing team 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 durante Series C funding durante February, just four months after securing $30 million durante Series B funding. 2022, it secured $12.5 million durante 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 durante Connecticut to give its clinicians access to Abridge’s clinical documentation tools. 

2023, the company became Epic’s first Pal durante 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 Rete televisiva privata, 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 acceso the NASDAQ through a $40 million IPO durante 2021.