Shiv Rao, MD, is a co-founder and the CEO of Abridge, a company founded in 2018 that builds AI software for health systems, turning conversations between clinicians and patients into draft clinical documentation and clinical insights. Rao is also a practicing cardiologist.123
At a glance
- Current role
- CEO and co-founder
- Company
- Abridge
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Speech and audio, Language models
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 4
- Profile reviewed
Career
Rao is a cardiologist who co-founded Abridge in 2018 and leads it as CEO. Abridge's about page quotes Rao describing the company as a way to advocate for patients at scale, as Rao does in a weekly clinic.13
Products and projects
Abridge's platform works inside electronic health record workflows to support clinicians before, during and after patient conversations. In August 2026 the company let partner health systems extend its clinical intelligence agent to every clinician, including through a new mobile and web experience connected to the patient's chart.32
In September 2026 Abridge added a pre-bill review capability that compares coded diagnoses on inpatient claims with the clinical record, and it was selected to provide ambient AI under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs enterprise contract.43
Work and contributions
Abridge clinician intelligence platform
Leads the company whose platform drafts clinical documentation from conversations and, in 2026, extended to a context-aware clinical intelligence agent and pre-bill review for coding and documentation integrity teams.124
Timeline
Where they work
- Abridge 2 people in the wiki
Related people
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4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026