Nvidia breaks into healthcare industry, announces new AI model in partnership with Abridge

Nvidia is working with Abridge to train a healthcare-specific AI model designed for clinical conversations, according to Fierce Healthcare. The model will be used only inside Abridge’s platform and is meant to support clinical decision-making, documentation, evidence grounding and workflow automation.

The companies said the system will be built on Nvidia’s Nemotron open model family and trained on Nvidia Blackwell infrastructure. Abridge will also use de-identified clinical data to customize the model, according to the report.

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NVIDIA has invested in Abridge through its venture arm, NVentures, according to Fierce Healthcare. Abridge said the work is part of a broader push to turn its product from an AI scribe into a wider AI clinical assistant.

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Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare, said the company sees an opening to adapt models with clinical intelligence earlier in development, according to The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Shiv Rao, Abridge’s co-founder and chief executive, said the companies want tighter control over model speed and accuracy for busy clinical settings, Fierce Healthcare confirmed.

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Abridge said it now works with 300 health systems and supports more than 100 million conversations a year, according to Fierce Healthcare. The Wall Street Journal added that Nvidia has also been expanding its healthcare reach through partnerships with other companies, including Microsoft, GE HealthCare, and others, as it pushes its computing tools into medicine and life sciences.

Powell said Nvidia believes healthcare could become one of the largest technology industries. She said the company is not trying to become a healthcare company itself, but wants to help power tools for the sector, per Fierce Healthcare.