Abridge Rolls Out Nurse-Focused AI Documentation Tool at Select Units in More Than 250 Health Systems

Abridge announced that Abridge for Nurses is now generally available across its network of more than 250 health system partners. The ambient documentation tool, built specifically for frontline nursing workflows, first emerged through a collaboration with Mayo Clinic in 2024. Mayo Clinic was the first to launch Abridge for Nurses in early 2025.

As of last month, Abridge for Nurses was live only on Mayo Clinic’s Florida and Arizona campuses, not on the main campus in Minnesota. The platform has since gone live at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Bon Secours Mercy Health in Cincinnati and Reid Health in Richmond, Indiana.

Corewell Health operates 21 hospitals but uses Abridge in only two units.

"It's still very much in development... from a nursing perspective, there are still very few organizations that are live or using it in some capacity. Even the ones that are, it's very limited," Jill Sheipline, vice president and chief nursing information officer at Corewell Health, said.

U.S. nurses found nearly 65 percent said they’re using more AI tools than they were one year ago. Twenty-three percent of nurses said they still aren’t using any AI in their daily workflows.

Only 1 in 10 nurses were considered “superusers” who use AI in the majority of or all of their tasks. Emily Stanforth, Abridge’s nursing solutions lead, said nurses have lost trust in technology. “Unfortunately, a lot of nurses have lost trust in tech.

To earn that trust back, it’s critical to put nurses in the driver's seat of the technology that's being developed,” Stanforth said. Dr. Shiv Rao, co-founder and CEO of Abridge, said building AI for nurses differs sharply from physician tools.

Nursing requires structured data entry into flow sheets rather than narrative summaries, creating a distinct machine learning challenge. Rao added that creating the first version of a nurse-usable product that nurses would say ‘This is great’ is definitely harder than for physicians.

At Mayo Clinic, nurses became “developers, side-by-side with Abridge,” according to Ryannon Frederick, the system’s chief nursing officer.

“From the get-go, we really said to Mayo Clinic nurses, ‘What's the problem we're trying to solve? ’” Frederick said. Corewell Health required nurses to undergo simulation labs to practice “nursing out loud” by verbally narrating assessments and care activities.

Nurses with the highest adoption rates at Corewell Health saved nearly 30 minutes per shift on documentation tasks. At Reid Health, leaders used simulation labs and TikTok-style educational clips for change management. “I see endless possibilities.

This is the most excited I've been about something brought forward in the profession in my 25 to 30 years as a nurse,” Misti Foust, vice president and chief nursing officer at Reid Health, said. At Mayo Clinic, patients opted into ambient recording at rates in the high 80 percents. The health system saw measurable improvements in patient satisfaction scores across all seven deployment units.

Ryannon Frederick said patients reported a reduction in anxiety on units using Abridge and that family members feel comfortable leaving because they know their loved one is informed. Corewell Health reported that no patients have opted out of Abridge for Nurses so far.

Newsweek reported that health system leaders described Abridge’s collaborative approach as helping build trust and producing a tool better suited to nursing’s complexity than earlier clinical AI products.