Abridge

About Abridge

Abridge is a clinical AI company founded in 2018 at Carnegie Mellon University, specialising in ambient AI documentation that captures, transcribes, and summarises patient encounters into structured clinical notes. Deeply integrated with Epic—the EHR used by over 350 major health systems—Abridge's technology is embedded natively within the Epic Hyperdrive interface, meaning clinicians never leave their existing workflow to access AI-generated documentation. The platform supports a wide range of encounter types and clinical specialties, producing SOAP notes, assessment and plan sections, after-visit summaries, and other document types specific to the clinical context. Abridge's AI models have been trained and validated in partnership with some of the most prestigious academic medical centres in the United States, including UCSF, Mayo Clinic, Yale New Haven Health, and Kaiser Permanente, giving it a clinical validation pedigree that distinguishes it from newer entrants to the ambient scribe market. Abridge takes an exceptionally rigorous approach to patient data privacy. Patient audio and conversation content are used solely to generate the immediate note for that encounter and are not retained for AI model training. The company signs HIPAA Business Associate Agreements with all health system customers and conducts regular third-party security assessments. Data is hosted in HIPAA-eligible AWS environments within the United States, with access controls, audit logging, and encryption at rest and in transit. Founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Abridge raised a $150 million Series C round in 2024, bringing total funding to over $212 million. The company's rapid growth reflects strong clinician adoption—Abridge consistently reports that physicians save one to two hours of documentation time per clinical day, directly addressing the documentation burden cited as a leading contributor to physician burnout across the US healthcare system. Abridge is offered exclusively through enterprise agreements with health systems and large medical groups. Pricing is customised based on the number of clinicians, specialties, and level of EHR integration required. For health systems evaluating ambient AI documentation tools, Abridge's combination of Epic-native integration, academic validation, strict privacy controls, and growing deployment scale make it a leading choice for compliance-conscious healthcare organisations.