Who is Abridge’s CEO Shiv Rao? No, Really…
At the annual South Asian Health Leaders Forum held in Boston last week, Shiv Rao talked candidly about his biography and how it propelled him to build Abridge
At the annual South Asian Health Leaders Forum held in Boston last week, Shiv Rao talked candidly about his biography and how it propelled him to build Abridge
Healthcare leaders know how to test software. We don't yet have a shared playbook for onboarding agents expected to do a job end to end. That is the gap a probation period is meant to fill.
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
Since implementing AI clinical documentation improvement (CDI) tools, Intermountain has seen a 22% point increase in inpatient chart completion during or immediately after rounds.
If trust, transparency, and accountability remain core values in medicine, AI governance cannot be left to improvisation.
The problem is not that companies have failed to make easy-to-use applications. Rather, it’s that there have been limitations to what software can realistically do in a modern healthcare environment.
Flare Capital Partners led the Series A round. Craft, Obvious Ventures, Eniac Ventures, InHealth Ventures, Epsilon Health Investors and ARTIS also participated.
Imprivata CEO Fran Rosch said AI agents should be treated similarly to the way hospitals treat a new contract nurse — vetted, monitored and then cut off as soon as the job is done.
Michelle Watson, Lifepoint Health's chief nurse executive, believes ambient listening and AI-powered patient prioritization are helping nurses reclaim time on tasks that don't require clinical judgment. The goal is to free nurses up for the work that actually requires their expertise.
Isolated improvements rarely translate into enterprise-wide transformation when they are layered onto outdated, inefficient workflows instead of being integrated into redesigned care delivery.
If AI is not one of the CEO’s top two or three priorities, the organization will produce pilots and slide decks while better-mobilized peers pull ahead and the institution’s ability to fulfill its mission erodes
A new report found that while more than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI tools, less than half have the infrastructure to properly test and validate them before they become embedded in patient care.