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Abridge
Ambient AI that turns clinical conversations into notes for health systems
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What is Abridge?
Abridge is an enterprise AI platform that captures clinician-patient conversations and turns them into draft clinical documentation, coding detail, orders and patient summaries. The company says it is used by more than 300 health systems and handles over 100 million conversations a year.
The platform covers the whole visit. Before the visit, it gathers patient history and prior visit context. During the encounter, it captures the conversation in real time, offers clinical decision support and flags care gaps. Afterward, it produces finalized notes, coding specificity and summaries for review and billing. Separate products serve clinicians, revenue cycle teams and nurses, and capabilities include the Abridge Assistant and Care Signals.
Abridge is built for large healthcare organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Duke Health, and it also lists payers, life sciences organizations and the public sector. Pricing is not published, and access starts by contacting sales.
Key features
- Real-time capture of clinician-patient conversations
- Draft clinical notes generated from visit conversations
- Pre-visit summaries of patient history and prior visits
- Clinical decision support and care gap identification
- Coding specificity and billable documentation for revenue cycle
- Nursing documentation from natural conversations
- Patient summaries and order support after visits
- Supports conversations in 28 languages
Use cases
Who it's for
Health systemsPhysicians and cliniciansNursesRevenue cycle and coding teamsPayers and life sciences organizations
Reducing physician documentation time
Clinicians get draft notes produced during the visit. One customer reported saving 30 minutes a day across 800+ providers.
Revenue cycle and coding accuracy
Coding and CDI teams get notes with coding specificity and can use pre-bill review. Riverside Health reported a 14% increase in HCC diagnoses documented per encounter.
Nursing documentation
Nurses' conversations with patients are turned into draft documentation.
Pre-charting before appointments
Patient history and context are gathered before the visit, so clinicians arrive prepared.
Abridge pricing
From the vendor's site, checked Oct 26, 2026; we re-check prices monthly. Prices change — confirm on their pricing page.
Pricing is by quote: contact the vendor.
How Abridge compares
- Abridge has no free plan, while 1 of the 4 alternatives below has one.
| Tool | Starts at | Free plan | Free trial | API | Open source | |
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| AAbridge | Quote | — | — | — | — | |
| M | Quote | — | — | — | — | Abridge vs Microsoft Dragon Copilot |
F Freed | $39/mo | — | — | — | Abridge vs Freed | |
U Upheal | $39/mo | — | — | Abridge vs Upheal | ||
S Suki AI | Quote | — | — | — | Abridge vs Suki AI |
The closest alternatives in our directory by category. “Starts at” is the cheapest paid plan per month, as each vendor lists it.
Abridge data and privacy
Trains AI on your content
Not stated
Data retention
Customer Data retained as described in the customer's agreement with Abridge
“When processing Customer Data on behalf of our customers, we will retain Customer Data as described in our agreement with that customer.”
Where data is stored
US
“your personal information will be processed within the US and countries where our service providers are located”
Security and compliance
None stated
From Abridge's own privacy and security pages , checked Oct 28, 2026. We only show what the vendor states in writing; “not stated” means the pages don't say.
Who's behind Abridge
- Company
- Abridge AI, Inc.
- Based in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Founders
- Shiv Rao
“Shiv Rao, MD CEO, Co-Founder”
From Abridge's own about, terms and privacy pages, checked Oct 28, 2026.
Pros and cons
Strengths
- Used by 300+ health systems, including Kaiser Permanente and Johns Hopkins
- Named Best in KLAS for ambient AI in 2025 and 2026
- Covers pre-visit, encounter and post-visit work
- Publishes whitepapers on AI evaluation and hallucination reduction
Limitations
- No public pricing; access is through sales
- Built for enterprise health systems rather than individual practitioners
- No free plan or trial listed
Abridge FAQ
What does Abridge do?
It turns clinical conversations into documentation, coding detail, orders and patient summaries, and it supports clinicians before, during and after visits.
How much does Abridge cost?
Pricing is not published. Organizations need to contact Abridge's sales team.
Who uses Abridge?
More than 300 health systems, including Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Duke Health and Yale New Haven Health.
Does Abridge support multiple languages?
A customer story cites use across 28 languages.
Is there a version for nurses?
Yes. Abridge for Nursing turns natural conversations into draft documentation.
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