Abridge
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAmbient clinical notes generated during patient visits, each line linked back to the recording
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Pricing
- Pricing model
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No public price: the site offers only a contact form, a demo and an impact calculator, and contracts are signed with health systems rather than individual clinicians. The clinician app is free to download but needs an organisation account.
Use tool ↗About Abridge
Abridge listens to a clinician-patient conversation through a phone app or the EHR and turns it into a structured draft note in real time, with each statement tied back to the transcript so the clinician can check the source before signing. The platform has grown past documentation into revenue-cycle coding, nursing notes, a chart assistant and care signals, and it is sold to health systems rather than to individual doctors: the vendor counts more than 300 of them, from Kaiser Permanente and Johns Hopkins to Mayo-scale academic centres. Abridge AI Inc. was founded in 2018 in Pittsburgh by cardiologist Shiv Rao and quotes 14-plus languages and 50-plus specialties; pricing is by enterprise contract only.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- 'AI-powered clinical documentation, built for accuracy' with revenue cycle, nursing, Abridge Assistant and Care Signals; 'trusted by 300+ health systems' naming Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Duke Health, UPMC and others; no price, only Contact Us; footer Abridge AI Inc (15 October 2026)abridge.com ↗
- 'Abridge was founded in 2018'; dateline Pittsburgh, PA; boilerplate cites 14+ languages, 50+ specialties and Linked Evidence mapping summaries to the source (press release of 9 July 2024, read 15 October 2026)abridge.com ↗
- Shiv Rao, MD listed as CEO and Co-Founder (15 October 2026)abridge.com ↗
- 'Abridge for Clinicians' free app by Abridge AI Inc. for iPhone, iPad and Apple-silicon Mac, directing clinicians to the web UI to complete notes (15 October 2026)apps.apple.com ↗
- 'Abridge Clinician' Android app on Google Play (15 October 2026)play.google.com ↗
Is Abridge legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 2, 1997 (29 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 25, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2018The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Abridge AI Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Abridge
Abridge is the enterprise ambient scribe with the longest customer list in US hospitals, and the thing that sets it apart is that every sentence in the draft note can be traced back to the moment in the recording it came from — which is what makes clinicians trust it enough to sign. It is bought by health systems, not clinicians: a solo practice cannot sign up, see a price or try it without an organisation behind it.
Pros
- Each note element links back to the transcript and audio, so verification is built into the review step
- Deployed at more than 300 health systems, including the largest US academic and integrated networks
- Covers 14-plus languages and 50-plus specialties, with revenue-cycle, nursing and chart-assistant modules on the same platform
- Free clinician apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android alongside the EHR-embedded experience
Cons
- No public pricing, trial or individual sign-up; procurement goes through the health system
- App-store reviews report dropped findings and occasional record-button failures, so notes still need a careful read
- Value depends on a deep EHR integration project, not on installing an app
Best for
- Health systems rolling out an ambient scribe across many specialties at once
- Clinician groups already working inside a major EHR who want the note drafted in their existing workflow
- Organisations that need to audit AI-generated notes against the source conversation
Not for
- Independent clinicians or small practices looking for a self-serve subscription
- Developers wanting an API to build their own documentation product — no public API is offered
Watch out: The app is free to install but useless without an enterprise account: a clinician cannot evaluate Abridge alone, so budget for a health-system procurement cycle rather than a trial.
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