Abridge’s AI Platform to Ease Clinical Documentation Burden Across UI Health’s Enterprise

CHICAGO & PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abridge today announced that UI Health, the academic health enterprise at the University of Illinois Chicago, will deploy its enterprise-grade AI platform across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care.

“We prioritize technology that enables the best experience for both our workforce delivering care and the patients receiving it,” said Dr. David Chestek, Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Chief Medical Information Officer for UI Health. “With Abridge, we’ve focused on easing the documentation burden for clinicians while supporting a more seamless experience for our diverse patient population.”

UI Health serves a linguistically diverse population of 1.4 million patients annually. Abridge’s automatic speech recognition technology is tailored to support bilingual clinicians who converse with their patients in non-English languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Polish, and Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), among many others.

During a previous pilot phase, with Abridge, UI Health saw a six percentage point increase in patient scores reported to Press Ganey from 91 to 97 percent in response to the survey question “provider explained in a way you understand.”

With an easy-to-use interface that integrates directly into UI Health’s electronic health record Epic Systems, Abridge’s AI platform will be able to quickly scale across care teams to support compliant, systemwide adoption.

“Abridge helps reflect one of the things that matter most: enabling clinicians to meet their patients where they are,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge and a practicing cardiologist.

About Abridge

Abridge was founded in 2018 to power deeper understanding in healthcare. Abridge is now trusted by more than 200 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. The enterprise-grade AI platform transforms medical conversations into clinically useful and billable documentation at the point of care, reducing administrative burden and clinician burnout while improving patient experience. With deep EHR integration, support for 28+ languages, and 50+ specialties, Abridge is used across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, emergency department, and inpatient.

Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform is purpose-built for healthcare. Supported by Linked Evidence, Abridge is the only solution that maps AI-generated summaries to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output. As a pioneer in generative AI for healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.