Abridge Hires Award-Winning Former Google and Hinge Health Product Executive Mario Queiroz as Chief Product Officer
Queiroz will accelerate the next phase of enterprise growth and strategic product innovation at Abridge as the leading generative AI platform for clinical conversations scales rapidly to the largest healthcare systems in the country.
November 14, 2024—Today, Abridge announced that Mario Queiroz is joining the team as Chief Product Officer. Queiroz, a seasoned product development leader with a track record of excellence at Google and Hinge Health, will drive product strategy and execution for Abridge’s AI platform.
Queiroz comes to Abridge most recently from Hinge Health, where he was Chief Product Officer at the leading digital musculoskeletal health clinic. He oversaw research and development, consumer marketing, and hardware devices, ultimately serving thousands of enterprise clients and millions of patients.
Prior to Hinge Health, Queiroz served as General Manager and Vice President of Product Management for Pixel Smartphones at Google. Queiroz’s 14+ year career at Google was marked by numerous highlights. He led Google’s home products, including the creation and launch of Chromecast, the first mass-market consumer hardware product made by Google, as well as Google Home and Google Wifi. In 2013, TIME named Chromecast the “Gadget of the Year,” and in 2014, Queiroz earned the No. 4 spot on Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list.
“Abridge is already a world-class organization that has earned the trust of the largest and most complex healthcare systems,” said Queiroz. “The company has set a new standard for deploying generative AI in clinical settings and has an incredible vision for what healthcare can become. I’m beyond excited for the opportunity to make that vision a reality.”
Queiroz joins Abridge at a time of rapid expansion and development, including successful enterprise-wide deployments at dozens of leading healthcare systems like Reid Health, University of Vermont Health Network, CHRISTUS Health, UChicago Medicine, Sutter Health, Yale New Haven Health System, UCI Health, Emory Healthcare, The University of Kansas Health System, UPMC, and many others. Recently, Mayo Clinic, Epic, and Abridge partnered on a generative AI ambient documentation workflow for nurses. Abridge has also formed partnerships with Wolters Kluwer, OpenNotes, and other leading healthcare organizations to enrich the Abridge platform’s capabilities. Earlier this year, Abridge announced a $150M Series C financing, which includes a strategic investment from NVIDIA.
“Abridge partners with a wide range of complex healthcare systems, and the clinicians who use our platform have diverse needs that scale across care-settings, specialties, languages, and workflow,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Founder of Abridge. “Mario’s experience innovating at scale will be invaluable as we rapidly accelerate to the next phase of enterprise growth.”
About Abridge
Abridge was founded in 2018 to power deeper understanding in healthcare. The AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. With support for 28+ languages and 50+ specialties, Abridge is able to support a wide range of clinician and patient encounters.
Abridge’s enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and their auditable AI, Abridge is the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.
Abridge was also recently recognized on the 2024 Forbes AI 50 list, alongside companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and others.
