Abridge Moving AI From Scribing to Clinical Workflows
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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
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Welcome to another episode of Bloomberg Intelligence's Vanguards of Healthcare podcast, where we speak with the leaders at the forefront of change in the healthcare industry. My name is Jonathan Palmer, and I'm a healthcare analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, the in-house research arm of Bloomberg. I'm thrilled to welcome Zach Lipton for today's episode. Zach is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Abridge. He brings a really unique perspective to the table as both a builder and a scholar. He's currently an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where his research focuses on the foundations and impacts of machine learning. Since its founding, ABRIDGE has become a breakout leader in the generative AI space, and they did a very sizable Series E round last year and are partnering with some of the largest health systems in the country.
Zach, thank you so much for joining us today. Maybe just to kick things off, how would you describe ABRIDGE's mission in, I don't know, a few sentences?
Save time, save money, save lives. I think, yeah, we see maybe like there's, I think, a very near-term mission, which is about removing, sort of like sucking all the friction out of the practice of healthcare, getting doctors above water and out of, you know, sort of like paperwork trap. You know, they spend two hours doing clerical work for every one hour of direct patient care. So I think like that's sort of the... been like the beachhead is like the operational gains. And at the same time, like my background came from, you know, a place of dealing with clinical medical data, working in methodology of like statistical inference, causal identification. And ultimately, you know, I think the big dream for machine learning and health care has always been not just to not just to mitigate paperwork, but also to provide truly novel clinical insights.
And I think the kinds of partnerships and scientific relationships that we are making with our partners put us in a position to sort of lead on both sides. And so, you know, so I think if we were to stage it sequentially, it was save time, save money, save lives.
Well said. That was succinct. Maybe just rewinding a little bit, where did your interest in the field in machine learning and natural language processing really kick off? Yeah.
Yeah, I got a taste in undergrad. So I was a musician first. That was my big love. I was a saxophone player. I got to being in the New York area. I got as like a young kid to grow up. But I was also had a little bit like a math science brain. And I think I was always caught between these two worlds. And my way of threading the needle at the time was to when you hit a fork in the road, take it. Yeah. So my way of like punching, kicking the can down the road was to go to school in New York. So I went to Columbia and I got more of a secular education while getting to be on the music scene. And so I was kind of like floating in these worlds. I wasn't a computer scientist and I hadn't really programmed much by then.
But I sometime, I think sophomore year, was dating an engineering student.
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