Abridge Selected to Bring Ambient AI to Veteran Care Nationwide Through the VA Enterprise Contract

Abridge’s clinician intelligence platform, trusted by more than 300 of the largest health systems in the U.S., is already operational on both of VA’s electronic health record systems through a nationwide pilot deployment.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abridge, the AI-native clinician intelligence platform, has been selected to provide ambient AI under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise contract through our distribution partner. The contract allows VA medical centers and regions across the country to bring Abridge to their clinicians as the agency modernizes how care is documented for Veterans. The multiple-award contract carries a total ceiling of $775.72 million over five years across all vendors who are eligible to compete for task orders.

Abridge’s platform is designed to support clinicians before, during, and after every patient conversation—from drafting clinical documentation to surfacing context-aware clinical insights. VA is undertaking one of the largest electronic health record transitions in history. Through a competitively awarded pilot, Abridge is fully operational on both systems today—VistA/CPRS and the Federal EHR—serving thousands of VA clinicians at more than 75 medical centers.

“It is an honor to support the clinicians who care for our nation's Veterans. We’ve worked to earn trust by meeting them where they are and preserving clinical context across providers, specialties, care settings, and the EHR migration,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge. “As a cardiologist, I’ve had the privilege of treating Veterans at VA medical centers in Ann Arbor and Pittsburgh. We've built Abridge to meet the scale and complexity that an enterprise-wide deployment requires.”

This year, Abridge will support more than 100 million patient-clinician conversations across more than 300 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. At VA, Abridge is live in primary care, across a dozen specialties, and in Clinical Resource Hubs, VA's virtual care network. The platform is validated to support encounters in more than 28 languages across specialties and care settings.

“What matters most during a transition of this scale is that care stays connected for every Veteran,” said Dr. David Shulkin, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs and a consultant to Abridge. “Abridge has proven its platform can support an integrated, consistent experience for VA clinicians and the Veterans they serve.”

Veteran care increasingly spans VA medical centers, community providers, and virtual settings. When documentation is clear and consistent, a Veteran doesn't have to retell their story at every visit, and their care stays connected wherever they're seen. Throughout the pilot, Abridge's deployment operated under VA security authorization, with Veteran data handled under VA's security controls.

"VA has demonstrated its focus on bringing commercial technology into the nation’s largest integrated health system," said Nadia Smith, former Acting Chief Digital Health Officer at the Veterans Health Administration and a consultant to Abridge. "Seeing that work carry forward into an enterprise contract shows VA's investment in digital health is paying off for the clinicians and Veterans it was built to serve."

The scope of what’s possible expands beyond documentation. For example, Abridge’s clinical decision support capabilities enable context-aware responses that draw from the patient chart, ongoing conversation, and the most highly cited and widely read peer-reviewed medical sources within existing clinical workflows and informed by the patient in the room.

The mission of Abridge’s AI-native clinician intelligence platform is to help clinicians and health systems improve the experience and outcomes of care for every patient.

About Abridge

Founded in 2018, Abridge is the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform organized around the patient, built for clinicians, and designed to help health systems coordinate the clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions for every moment of care. Powered by purpose-built AI for healthcare, Abridge connects patients, providers, payers, and life sciences companies. This year, the platform will support more than 100 million patient-clinician conversations across more than 300 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. With deep workflow integration, the Abridge clinician intelligence platform has been validated to support encounters in 28+ languages across specialties and care settings.

Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of Al across health systems with continual and transparent Al evaluation. Clinical decision support references and cites gold-standard sources of evidence, and features like Linked Evidence map AI-generated documentation to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output.

Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS for Ambient AI in 2025 and 2026, in addition to other accolades, including TIME Best Inventions of 2024 and 2025, CNBC Disruptor 2025, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2025.