Abridge Leaders on AI-Native Healthcare, Doctors Who Code, and the Future of Clinical AI

A couple weeks ago, Michał Nedoszytko placed third globally at Anthropic's hackathon out of 13,000 participants. He was the head of cardiology at a hospital in Brussels at the time. Now he is Clinical Scientist at Abridge. On this episode of Vital Signs, Nikhil and I sat down with Abridge's CEO Shiv Rao and Michał to chat about how the hire came together, what changed with Opus 4.6 that let a cardiologist ship a working MVP in 40 minutes, and where they both think clinical AI goes next. 0:00 Intro 0:19 Hackathon Fame 3:52 Shiv Recruits Mahal 6:30 Doctors Who Code 9:07 Prototypes vs Production 10:26 Regulation and Partnerships 13:00 Customization vs Reliability 15:59 AI Native Company Ops 19:29 Healthcare in 10 Years 21:08 Admin vs Clinical AI 24:47 Payers and Prior Auth 29:48 Training Doctors for AI 35:19 Context, Autonomy, and Demand 40:40 Pre-visit Workflows and Triage Out-Of-Pocket: https://www.outofpocket.health/