Nvidia Taps Abridge to Train AI on Real Doctor Visits
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Every conversation between a doctor and patient carries something medical textbooks don't: the unscripted, unfiltered reality of care. That's exactly what Nvidia is now trying to capture.
The tech giant is partnering with Abridge, an AI startup already embedded in over 100 health systems including Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, to build a specialized AI model trained on real clinical conversations. Abridge's platform listens to doctor-patient exchanges and auto-generates clinical notes, and that audio is pure gold for AI training.
As Abridge CEO Shiv Rao put it, "Generic models are powerful, but clinical intelligence, it still has to be trained, it has to be shaped, and it has to be evaluated against real-world conditions."
But the data comes with serious obligations. With healthcare breaches affecting over half the US population last year, and states introducing stricter consent laws, Abridge is keeping the model on its own hardware to limit how far patient data travels.
The model is expected to launch later this year.
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