Abridge Expands Gen AI Tools to Inpatient Settings, Adds Outpatient Orders Feature

Developed with Epic via its Workshop program, Abridge Inside for Inpatient integrates with Epic’s Haiku app and supports history, progress, and consult notes.

Abridge has launched a generative AI product tailored for inpatient medical documentation, expanding its reach beyond outpatient and emergency settings. Developed in collaboration with Epic through its Workshop program, the tool, Abridge Inside for Inpatient, integrates directly into Epic’s Haiku app and supports various note types, including history and physical, progress, and consult notes.

The tool supports pre-charting, post-charting, and switching between patients. Epic automatically maps the generated notes into the selected formats. Sutter Health is currently piloting the tool.

"Abridge Inside automatically transforms bedside conversations into structured Epic notes, empowering inpatient clinicians who deliver the intricately balanced coordinated care for admitted patients to devote more time to patient care,” said Veena Jones, M.D., Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer at Sutter Health.

Outpatient Orders Feature Piloted

Alongside the inpatient tool, Abridge has introduced a generative AI-powered outpatient orders feature through another pilot within Epic’s Workshop. The feature identifies medications discussed during consultations and surfaces them directly in Epic for rapid ordering.

“Once I finish the visit, the medications I talked through will already surface in Epic—and that’s a huge help in a busy clinic,” said Mary Kirby, M.D., family medicine physician at Coastal Carolina.

CEO Shiv Rao, M.D., emphasized the complexity of inpatient workflows and the need for deep integration. "Working well inside those workflows requires not only a deep Epic integration but also a lot of work on our side to create notes that can meet the mark over there."

Rao added, “What we've done here with inpatient and orders, we can start to land and expand into new workflows or care settings.”

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