A typical physician’s job is much more than just seeing patients. In fact, most doctors spend hours every week outside of clinic hours catching up on typing notes and getting visits and treatments cleared with insurance providers.
As a practicing cardiologist, Shiv Rao had gotten used to doing this work late at night. That’s why he launched Abridge, an AI platform that can turn conversations between doctors and patients into clinical notes in real time. So far, Abridge has raised $780 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Khosla Ventures, and struck up partnerships with more than 150 health systems nationwide.
I recently sat down with Rao, and we discussed: • How Abridge’s ability to understand and transcribe nearly 100 languages tranforms patient visits into cli