MemorialCare Partners with Abridge, Poised to Transform Healthcare Delivery
April 16 2024 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Today, MemorialCare and Abridge announced a partnership to make
Abridge’s generative AI tool for clinical documentation available
to MemorialCare’s physicians across southern California.
MemorialCare expects that Abridge will restore the human-to-human
connection between clinicians and patients, and strip away the
administrative burden for clinicians.
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“Watching Abridge work in real-time sometimes feels like
watching a science-fiction movie—it’s magical. It is a privilege
for me to be part of the effort to bring Abridge into MemorialCare
and the broader healthcare community,” said Dr. David Kim, EVP and
CEO, MemorialCare Medical Foundation. “I have a bold prediction for
how Abridge will impact us—⅓ of clinicians will go home sooner, ⅓
will use Abridge to sustain the strains of today’s healthcare
pressures, and ⅓ will be able to see more critical patients who
need timely attention.”
Clinicians at MemorialCare have used Abridge for the last few
months, and a very tangible impact is already being felt. Abridge
supports over 50 specialties and 14 languages, making it easy for
the platform to support MemorialCare’s diverse patient population.
Abridge’s Linked Evidence foundation provides a layer of trust for
clinicians to verify any part of the summary against the source
transcript and audio. Further, Abridge’s platform is deeply
connected into MemorialCare’s Epic workflow, reducing any major
change management hurdles.
“I have never seen such an immediate impact from a technology
solution. Abridge is saving our providers up to 10 minutes per
visit. For the first time in years, one of our clinicians finally
had time to both eat and read a journal during lunch,” said Dr.
Tanya Dansky, Senior Medical Director, MemorialCare Medical Group.
“But what makes Abridge truly special is its ability to allow
patients to interact with clinicians in ways they are most
comfortable. One clinician conducted a visit in both Vietnamese and
English wearing an N95 mask, and a complete note was produced in
real-time in English.”
“With Abridge, a physical barrier has been broken between the
clinician and patient without the need for a computer, and mental
bandwidth has been created for a clinician to be fully present,”
said Barry Arbuckle, PhD, President and CEO, MemorialCare. “This
partnership will make significant improvements in how our
clinicians practice medicine, bringing them back to the roots of
why they chose medicine in the first place.”
“We are privileged to partner with MemorialCare and innovate
together around value-based workflows,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and
Founder, Abridge. “AI can remove friction and clerical overhead,
helping clinicians reclaim the mental space to think through care
plans for their patients.”
This news follows successful deployments of the Abridge
technology at Sutter Health, Yale New Haven Health System, UCI
Health, Emory Healthcare, The University of Kansas Health System,
UPMC, and dozens of other health systems. Abridge recently
announced a $150M Series C financing, which includes a strategic
investment from NVIDIA that will allow them to accelerate their
bold research and development plan. This work will power
improvements to Abridge’s existing product lines and enable a new
wave of possibilities in the future.
About Abridge
Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper
understanding in healthcare. The AI-powered platform was
purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical
documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on
what matters most—their patients.
Abridge’s enterprise-grade technology transforms
patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in
real-time with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence
and their auditable AI, Abridge is the only company that maps
AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly
trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for
healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standards for the
responsible deployment of AI across health systems.
About MemorialCare
MemorialCare, nonprofit Southern California integrated delivery
system and innovator in value-based care, has over 225 care
locations; 15,000 employees and affiliated physicians; top
hospitals—Long Beach Medical Center, Miller Children's
& Women's Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Medical
Center and Saddleback Medical Center; award-winning
MemorialCare Medical Group and Greater Newport Physicians;
MemorialCare Select Health Plan; and outpatient surgery, imaging,
urgent care, dialysis, breast health and physical therapy centers.
MemorialCare's many honors have included Best U.S. Health Systems,
Top Places to Work, Top Hospital rankings from readers of eight
regional newspapers, 10 Largest U.S. Children's Hospitals, Top 100
Hospitals, A Hospital Safety Score, Top 50 Cardiovascular
Hospitals, Magnet nursing excellence status for all MemorialCare
hospitals, among others. Visit www.memorialcare.org.
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