Artificial Intelligence Medical Records Company Restrictmedical informatics giant Epic and the healthcare system Mayonnaise Clinic are collaborating to create a genAI documentation platform that will integrate Abridge tools with Mayo Clinic’s Epic nursing EHR system.
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 crucial details like health conditions, symptoms and care plans to the top of a report.
The tool can also send notes back to the EHR and integrate with telemedicine services.
The companies will combine Abridge’s AI technology, Epic’s development expertise, and Mayo Clinic’s nursing expertise to create the genAI ambient documentation tool.
Abridge’s AI technology will be expanded and integrated with Epic’s nursing workflow platform to enhance inpatient workflow at Mayo Clinic.
“We cooperate [nurses] directly in the development of this technology to ensure its apply meets the unique needs of nurses and patient care processes, as well as regulatory requirements for community-based solutions,” Ryannon Frederick, chief nursing officer at Mayo Clinic, said in a statement.
“We are excited to leverage the knowledge and experience of our nursing staff to help shape the future of documentation, where documentation can happen automatically and organically.”
The companies plan to make the tool available to nurses by the end of 2024.
BIGGER 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 financing.
During the Series C announcement, Abridge announced a corporate agreement with Yale Modern Haven Health System in Connecticut that will give physicians access to Abridge clinical documentation tools.
In 2023, Abridge became Epic’s first Partner in the healthcare IT company’s Partners and Pals program, integrating the Abridge platform into Epic’s clinical workflows.
The company also has agreements with University of Vermont Health Network, CHRISTUS Health, UChicago Medicine, MemorialCare, Sutter’s HealthNVIDIA, UCI Health, University of Kansas Health System and Priority Health.
Another company offering AI-powered environmental documentation is a San Francisco-based company augmedix. The company has grown from Google Glass– a clinically based company that became a public company for the first time debut on NASDAQ via a $40 million initial public offering in 2021.