Shiv Rao CEO of Abridge on Voice Assistants for Patients and Doctors - Voicebot Podcast Ep 275

Shiv Rao is a cardiologist that co-founded Abridge in 2018 to
help patients and doctors get better results from their
encounters. Abridge listens to the doctor-patient conversations,
provides a transcription, and categorizes specific details such
as medications, symptoms, diagnoses, procedures, and the care
plan. Patients can access the conversation details through a
mobile app that also highlights key words such as medications and
procedures and provides click-through definitions. 


For doctors, the transcripts are packaged as physician notes
which they can review and then automatically upload into the
electronic medical record (EMR). Other solutions in the space
focus on helping physicians get the right data into the right
fields in the EMR. Abridge is focused on the rich data in the
conversation beyond the required information. 


Rao was formerly a senior executive at UPMC Enterprises and
serves as faculty and a working cardiologist at the Heart and
Vascular Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center. He earned his MD from the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine.