--- description: Find out why Abridge is one of the best inventions of 2024 title: Abridge: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt196d7fd65acd9b12/698a8a7fdb2987839d270d33/abridge-productdemo-v01-optimized-1.gif?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Reducing Doctors’ Paperwork by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Doctors spend an average of 15.5 hours per week on paperwork and administration, according to the 2023 Medscape Physician Compensation Report. “We have this huge public health emergency, and when you ask \[doctors\] what’s crushing their soul, they all say it’s paperwork,” says Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and founder of [Abridge](https://www.abridge.com/ "undefined") AI. That’s the impetus behind the company’s AI-powered documentation platform, which automatically records conversations with patients (after receiving their consent), creates a summary that’s formatted for medical records, and makes billing and coding a snap. The product is already being used by 50,000 doctors across 50 health systems. Learn More at [Abridge](https://www.abridge.com/ "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Abridge: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094840/abridge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094840/abridge/"},"headline":"Abridge: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:14:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:32.671Z","description":"Find out why Abridge is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094840/abridge/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt196d7fd65acd9b12/698a8a7fdb2987839d270d33/abridge-productdemo-v01-optimized-1.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt196d7fd65acd9b12/698a8a7fdb2987839d270d33/abridge-productdemo-v01-optimized-1.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094840/abridge/","name":"Abridge: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```