Innovating at the Speed of Trust and Fixing the Rev Cycle | The 229 Podcast with Shiv Rao

June 18, 2026: Shiv Rao, Co-founder and CEO of Abridge, has spent eight years building the company into something most people didn't see coming. Now live in 300+ health systems, touching 250 million patients and processing over 100 million clinical conversations a year. But Shiv isn't just a technologist. He still rounds at UPMC as a practicing cardiologist, and that dual lens shapes everything about how he thinks. In this conversation with Bill Russell, Shiv reframes what Abridge actually is: not an AI scribe, but computable infrastructure. The clinical conversation sits upstream of every workflow in healthcare, and what Abridge is building is the platform that proves it.Keep up to date on the latest in health IT:https://thisweekhealth.com/news/Key Points:01:41 Big Announcement Beyond Notes06:29 Unified Patient Intelligence10:52 Enterprise AI and Trust15:59 Coalition With Payers and NVIDIA35:27 So What and Closing BetsX: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer