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There’s a Canadian in my household (not me), so the Winter Olympics are a BIG DEAL around here. Watching all these athletes sliding around on ice and snow. Yeesh. Like I needed another reason to feel cold. (It’s very fun; I stayed up too late watching ice dancing.)
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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.
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