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Shiv Rao is the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, an AI technology to ease the administrative burden on doctors and other healthcare workers. The idea is that by lessening those headaches, Abridge frees up time for doctors and nurses to give the rest of us more attentive care.
A major achievement for Rao in 2025 was his ongoing expansion of Abridge’s AI modules to work in tandem with the most popular health systems, including Kaiser Permanente, Northwell Health, and Mass General Brigham.
Another notable development was that Rao ‘saw’ nurses. He had Abridge partner with the Mayo Clinic and Epic to build a generative AI documentation tool specifically for nurses. He recognized that nurses are overburdened by paperwork, too, but in a different way than doctors. Abridge estimates its tools save the average healthcare worker at least three hours a day, time that lets them focus more on the frightened and often hurting people in hospital beds.
