Senior Physician Executive
Abridge
As senior physician executive at Abridge, Reid Conant, MD, brings extensive experience as a physician executive and innovator, dedicated to leveraging AI to transform healthcare delivery. As a leader in the speech and ambient fields for more than a decade, Conant brings cross-functional perspective and drives innovation through teamwork with the product, engineering, implementation, strategy and business development teams at Abridge. He focuses on building and bringing to market technologies that enhance provider workflows, reduce burnout, improve patient care, and improve productivity and profitability. Previously, Conant founded Conant and Associates Inc., guiding it through its acquisition by Nuance Communications (later acquired by Microsoft), where, as CMIO, he led initiatives in virtual assistant, ambient clinical intelligence, and other cutting-edge AI-based technologies. He is passionate about driving AI-powered innovation to create a more efficient, high-quality healthcare system. Conant is board certified in both emergency medicine and clinical informatics.
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