STAT+: Abridge CTO on Epic and what’s after AI scribing

Abridge CTO on competition with Epic

Over the last few years, Abridge has become one of the leading artificial intelligence companies in health care. It’s got a multi-billion dollar valuation and an ambient scribe used by hundreds of health systems. So what’s next for the company?

In a revealing interview with Brittany Trang, CTO Zachary Lipton reflects on growing from a 15-person startup working on reducing documentation burden to a company of hundreds striving to streamline painful workflows at health systems, like coding and prior-authorization. Lipton discussed the company’s work on a clinical decision support offering and the competitive threat to its core product from EHR giant Epic.