UVM partners with Abridge for AI clinical documentation

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The University of Vermont Health Network, which serves over one million patients, is partnering with Abridge on AI for clinical documentation.

UVM, an integrated system serving the residents of Vermont and northern New York, selected Abridge following a vetting process.

Clinicians at UVM Health Network have been using Abridge for four months. The enterprise rollout will soon expand to cardiology, endocrinology and other specialties.

WHY THIS MATTERS

The AI clinical platform has been shown to increase clinicians' professional fulfillment by 53%; decrease by 60% time spent on documenting patient encounters, both during clinic hours and outside of regular work hours; and reduce cognitive load by 51%, according to Abridge.

"Abridge is clinically smart and feels like it has been trained with clinician thinking. It creates a note that resonates with me, reading like a clinician wrote it," said Dr. Alicia Jacobs, family medicine physician in Colchester, Vermont. "Abridge is the first thing I've seen that improves provider wellness and relieves cognitive load, allowing me to be fully present with my patient." 

THE LARGER 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. 

Abridge recently announced a $150M Series C financing, which includes a strategic investment from NVIDIA.

ON THE RECORD

"Abridge has delivered spectacular results for our physicians and improved the patient experience," said Dr. Jason Sanders, CEO and president Medical Group. "The superior quality of Abridge's AI-generated note drafts made them the obvious choice by our Digital and Remote Health Committee for ambient documentation."

 
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Email the writer: SMorse@himss.org