Voices of Healthcare · #3
Shiv Rao
Co-founder and CEO
Abridge
Abridge moved ambient clinical documentation from specialty pilots into Epic-centered enterprise budgets with measurable note workflow claims.
Shiv Rao co-founded Abridge and leads the company as CEO. Abridge builds ambient clinical documentation that records clinician-patient conversations and drafts notes intended to land in the electronic health record with less after-hours charting.
Under Rao, Abridge pushed hard into Epic-embedded pathways and specialty coverage, which is where health system RFPs now concentrate. Buyers still dig into edit rates and pricing, but the company is one of the clearest examples of ambient documentation leaving the innovation theater.
HIR publishes a scored review of Abridge in the clinical systems category.