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Abridge vs. OpenEvidence, round one
New announcements from Abridge and OpenEvidence, two of the most prominent health tech startups to emerge in recent years, highlight how despite different initial offerings, many artificial intelligence companies in health care will just end up competing with each other for physician eyeballs.
On Monday morning, Abridge, best known for its AI scribe that helps doctors automate the writing of clinical notes, announced a new product that will surface “real-time insights, prompts, and pathways” from the widely-used medical resource UpToDate based on t