HARTFORD, Conn. & PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 2, 2025--
Abridge ’s AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform has been selected by Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network, following a rigorous evaluation and successful pilot.
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This milestone underscores Hartford HealthCare’s commitment to advancing healthcare by partnering with the world’s leading entrepreneurs, their technologies and aligned visionary leadership.
Abridge’s platform integrates tens of thousands of pieces of clinician feedback daily, ensuring it meets real-world needs while pushing the boundaries of AI—demonstrated by its pioneering work in real-time Prior Authorization at the point of care. Today, Hartford HealthCare is focused on using Abridge to reduce the administrative burden of clinical documentation—a leading contributor to clinician burnout. Nearly 50% of physicians report symptoms of burnout, according to the American Medical Association. Peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that 67% of clinicians using Abridge feel less at risk of burnout.
The partnership will enable the two organizations to develop solutions together and scale its enterprise-grade platform to nurses, physicians, and advanced practitioners across Hartford HealthCare.
Over the past decade, Hartford HealthCare’s bold approach to AI innovation sets it apart. The system’s Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare partners with world-class startups and entrepreneurs, leading global academic institutions, venture capital, and corporate partners.
Hartford HealthCare has emerged as a pioneer in unlocking the potential of AI in healthcare—doing so with a strong focus on unlocking the full potential of AI for patients in a safe and responsible way.
At the heart of this transformation is Hartford HealthCare’s dedication to improving Access, Affordability, Excellence, and Health Equity (A2E2)—a mission that continues to shape every strategic decision.
“This innovation is central to patient care and clinician well-being,” said Barry Stein, MD, Vice President and Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, Hartford HealthCare. “The notes built from the conversations with clinicians and their patients are the foundation of the patient record, and capturing them effortlessly has an outsized impact on both the patient’s and the clinician’s experience. Abridge understands this and their vision is aligned with ours. Together, we are not just keeping pace with where healthcare is going—we are helping to shape it.”
Abridge has already demonstrated success across outpatient, inpatient, and emergency department settings, supporting more than 55 specialties, over 28 languages, robust auditability and best-in-class hallucination mitigation—key factors in the decision to scale system-wide.
“At Abridge, we share Hartford HealthCare’s vision for how AI can reshape the future of care delivery. Together, we are building not just for today’s documentation needs, but for the next era of healthcare—where ambient AI transforms the revenue cycle, accelerates value-based care, and even informs clinical decision-making,” said Shiv Rao, MD, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge and a practicing cardiologist. “Hartford Healthcare’s integrated care model, robust innovation ecosystem, and decade-long commitment to accelerating clinically impactful AI make it one of the most forward-looking health systems in the country. We are at the beginning of our journey together and are privileged to be on it.”
Looking ahead, Hartford HealthCare and Abridge are expanding their collaboration to explore how ambient AI can transform nursing workflows and revenue cycle management, accelerate value-based care, and support clinical decision-making at the point of conversation.
About Hartford HealthCare
With 44,000 colleagues and a bold vision for the future, Hartford HealthCare is transforming healthcare across Connecticut and beyond—enhancing access, affordability, health equity, and excellence. Spanning more than 500 locations in 185 towns and cities, the system delivers care to 27,000 people every day.
Hartford HealthCare’s comprehensive network includes world-class hospitals, an expansive behavioral health system, multispecialty physician groups, urgent and virtual care, surgery centers, home and senior care, rehabilitation, and mobile neighborhood health programs. Its unique Institute Model unites leading experts in neuroscience, cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular care, orthopedics, and urology & kidney health to provide a consistent, high standard of care.
Recognized nationally for patient safety and clinical excellence, Hartford HealthCare received the American Hospital Association Quest for Quality Prize in 2025 and holds Leapfrog A-ratings across all hospitals—making it one of the safest healthcare systems in the country.
About Abridge
Abridge was founded in 2018 to power deeper understanding in healthcare. The enterprise-grade AI platform transforms medical conversations into clinically useful and billable documentation at the point of care, reducing administrative burden and clinician burnout while improving patient experience. With deep EHR integration, support for 28+ languages, and 55+ specialties, Abridge is used across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, emergency department, and inpatient.
Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform is purpose-built for healthcare. Supported by Linked Evidence, Abridge is the only solution that maps AI-generated summaries to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output. As a pioneer in generative AI for healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.
Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS 2025 for Ambient AI in addition to other accolades, including Forbes 2025 AI 50 List, TIME Best Inventions of 2024, and Fortune’s 2024 AI 50 Innovators.
Abridge Partnership Scales Ambient Clinical Intelligence Across Hartford HealthCare’s Clinical Enterprise
Abridge Partnership Scales Ambient Clinical Intelligence Across Hartford HealthCare’s Clinical Enterprise
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the cradle of the modern Civil Rights Movement to mobilize a new voting rights era as conservative states dismantle congressional districts that helped secure Black political representation.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey called Montgomery “sacred soil” in the fight for civil rights.
“If we in our generation do not now do our duty, we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us,” Booker said.
The crowd was led in chants of “we won’t go back” and “we fight.”
“We are not going down without a fight. We are not going down to Jim Crow maps,” Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in the Alabama redistricting case, said.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling involving Louisiana hollowed out voting rights law that was already weakened by a separate decision in 2013 and then narrowed further over the years. That helped clear the way for stricter voter ID laws, registration restrictions, and limits on early voting and polling place changes, including in states that once needed federal preclearance before they could change voting laws because of their historical discrimination against Black voters.
The Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said the decision was a direct attack on the legacy of generations who faced “dogs and batons and bombs and billy clubs so that Black people and all marginalized communities could participate fully in this democracy.”
A crowd of thousands gathered in front of the city’s historic Alabama Capitol, the place where the Confederacy was formed in 1861 and where the elder King spoke in 1965 at the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March. The stage, set in front of the Capitol, was flanked from behind by statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and civil rights icon Rosa Parks — dueling tributes erected nearly 90 years apart.
Speakers said the spot was once the temple of the Confederacy and became the holy ground of the Civil Rights Movement.
Some in the crowd said the effort to redraw lines has echoes of the past.
“We lived through the '60s. It takes you back. When you think that Alabama’s moving forward, it takes two steps back,” said Camellia A Hooks, 70, of Montgomery, Alabama.
The rally began in Selma, where a violent clash between law enforcement and voting rights activists in 1965 galvanized support for passage of the Voting Rights Act. It then moved to the state Capitol, where King gave his “How Long, Not Long” speech that same year.
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement are alarmed by the speed of the rollbacks, noting that protections won through generations of sacrifice have been weakened in little more than a decade.
Kirk Carrington, 75, was a teen in 1965 when law enforcement officers attacked marchers in Selma on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” A white man on a horse wielding a stick chased Carrington through the streets.
“It’s really just appalling to me and all the young people that marched during the ’60s, fought hard to get voting rights, equal rights and civil rights,” Carrington said. “It’s sad that it’s continuing after 60-plus-odd years that we are still fighting for the same thing we fought for back then.”
Civil rights leaders, members of Congress from across the country, union leaders and pastors spoke at the rally, which lasted four hours.
“They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened,” said U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York.
Montgomery is home to one of the congressional districts that is being altered in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
A federal court in 2023 redrew Alabama's 2nd Congressional District after ruling that the state intentionally diluted the voting power of Black residents, who make up about 27% of its population. The court said there should be a district where Black people are a majority or near-majority and have an opportunity to elect their candidate of choice.
But the Supreme Court cleared the way for a different map that could let the GOP reclaim the seat. While the matter remains under litigation, the state plans special primaries Aug. 11 under the new map.
Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures, who won election in the district in 2024, said the dispute is not about him but rather people's opportunity to have representation.
“When Republicans are literally turning back the clock on what representation, what the faces of representation, look like, what the opportunities, legitimate opportunities for representation look like across this country, then I think it starts to resonate with people in a little bit of a different way,” Figures said.
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter, a Republican, said the Louisiana ruling provided an opportunity to revisit a map that was forced on the state by the federal court.
“People tend to forget what happened. When this thing went to court, the Republican Party had that seat, congressional seat two,” Ledbetter said last week. “There’s been a push through the courts to try to overtake some of these red state seats, and that’s certainly what happened in that one.”
Evan Milligan, the lead plaintiff in the Alabama redistricting case, said there is grief over the implosion of the Voting Rights Act, but it is crucial that people recommit to the fight.
“We have to accept that this is the new reality, whether we like it or not,” Milligan said. “We don’t have to accept that this will be the reality for the next 10 years or two years or forever.”
A man sings a spirtual song during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
The State capitol is seen during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protestor holds a sign of the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A man sings a spirtual song during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
A protestor holds a sign of the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
U.S. Sen Corey Booker, D-NY., has his photo taken during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
People gather during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
U.S. Sen Corey Booker, D-NY., has his photo taken during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Aaron McGuire sings a spirtual song during a voting rally, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
