100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2024

Over the past few years, Abridge under Rao’s leadership has become a dominant presence in the field of generative artificial intelligence and healthcare. After raising $150 million in Series C funding, Rao and his team announced a partnership in July with Mayo Clinic and Epic to prototype charting technology for nurses. A month later, Abridge rolled out a generative AI-powered ambient listening tool for clinicians across Kaiser Permanente’s 40 hospitals and roughly 600 medical offices. According to the company, the startup has signed a new enterprise partner almost every week over the past nine months. Rao, a prominent speaker on the conference circuit, has sought to capitalize on this year’s momentum by driving internal expansion: The company opened new offices in San Francisco and New York, and more than quadrupled its employee headcount.