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Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.

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Good morning health tech readers!

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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