Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine Launches as Part of Epic’s Workshop Program

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abridge, a market-leading generative AI platform for clinical conversations, has launched new enhancements designed for the fast-paced environment of emergency care. Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine features seamless integration with Epic’s ASAP module in Haiku and Hyperspace and transforms high-pressure clinical conversations into structured notes.

“Abridge Inside has reduced burnout and increased job satisfaction in the Emergency Department without changing anything else,” said Dr. Tricia Smith, an attending emergency physician at Emory University Hospital Midtown. “We have adopted one technology that has really impacted our work and, therefore, our patients—and I can’t think of a single person who uses Abridge who would go back.”

A few key product elements of the Abridge platform were critical to suit the needs of Emergency Medicine:

• ASAP and Haiku integration: Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine is integrated within Epic’s note drafting workflows for emergency department clinicians. Clinicians can now select patients from the department’s Track Board and begin an ambient recording immediately with Haiku.
• Purpose-built AI: Abridge’s market-leading automatic speech recognition models detect specialty, language, and multiple speakers (without manual setting adjustments) to create an accurate transcript and exceptional clinical documentation.

Clinicians who use Abridge expend 86% less effort writing notes, do 60% less after-hours documentation work, and report a 55% reduction in burnout, the leading cause fueling the U.S. doctor and nurse shortage. According to a 2024 Medscape survey, emergency medicine clinicians face the highest rates of burnout of any specialty at 63%. Currently, Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine is being used at many systems across the country including Deaconess Health System, Emory Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and UChicago Medicine.

“Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine was developed in close collaboration with Epic as part of the Workshop program,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Founder of Abridge. “There continues to be a strong collaborative effort to build new generative AI capabilities within Epic workflows. This trailblazing partnership will continue with the inpatient module that’s in development and nearly ready for beta testing.”

Abridge is being increasingly utilized for enterprise-wide deployment at leading healthcare systems across the country, including CHRISTUS Health, Corewell Health, Deaconess Health System, Duke Health, Emory Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Reid Health, Sutter Health, UCI Health, UChicago Medicine, The University of Kansas Health System, University of Vermont Health Network, UPMC, Yale New Haven Health System, and many more. Abridge has also formed partnerships with Wolters Kluwer, OpenNotes, and other leading healthcare organizations to enrich the Abridge platform ecosystem. In early 2024, Abridge announced a $150M Series C financing, which included a strategic investment from NVIDIA.

About Abridge
Abridge was founded in 2018 to power 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 28+ 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. Abridge was also recently recognized on the 2024 Forbes AI 50 list, alongside companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and others.

*Epic, ASAP, Haiku, and Hyperspace are registered trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation.