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UVM Partners with Abridge for AI Clinical Documentation
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The University of Vermont Health Network, which serves more than a million patients, is partnering with Abridge on AI for clinical documentation.
UVM, an integrated system serving residents of Vermont and upstate New York, selected Abridge after a selection process.
Clinicians at UVM Health Network have been using Abridge for four months. The enterprise launch will soon expand to cardiology, endocrinology and other specialties.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
The AI clinical platform has been shown to increase physicians’ professional fulfillment by 53%; decrease the time spent documenting patient encounters by 60%, both during office hours and outside of normal working hours; and reduce cognitive load by 51%, according to Abridge.
“Abridge is clinically intelligent and feels like it was trained with clinical thinking in mind. It creates a note that resonates with me, feeling like a clinician wrote it,” said Dr. Alicia Jacobs, a family medicine physician in Colchester, Vermont. “Abridge is the first thing I’ve seen that improves provider well-being and alleviates cognitive load, allowing me to be fully present with my patient.”
THE BIGGER TREND
Abridge’s platform has been deployed at UChicago Medicine, Sutter Health, Yale New Haven Health System, UCI Health, Emory Healthcare, The University of Kansas Health System, UPMC, and other health systems.
Summarize recently announced a $150 million Series C financing, which includes a strategic investment from NVIDIA.
ON RECORD
“Abridge has delivered spectacular results for our clinicians and improved the patient experience,” said Dr. Jason Sanders, CEO and president of Medical Group. “The superior quality of Abridge’s AI-generated draft notes made them the obvious choice for our Digital and Remote Health Committee for environmental documentation.”
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