Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
Doctors are burned out. Patients don’t understand the advice they’re given. And the U.S. healthcare system is drowning each year in $1.5 trillion – with a “T” – in administrative costs.
Abridge co-founder and CEO Shiv Rao thinks he can help. He’s seen the problem on both sides – as a practicing cardiologist who still sees patients, and as a partner who spent years navigating the system to seek fertility treatments with his spouse.
“We’d look at each other and be like, ‘What did they just say?’ And I’m a doctor,” he says.
Founded in Pittsburgh in 2018, Abridge is building what Rao calls the…
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