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Abridge is a documentation platform your hospital buys. palmER puts your entire shift in your hands.
From the first workup to the last discharge, palmER puts MDM writing, clinical answers, consult preparation, and chart review in your hands. Built by emergency physicians. Ready for your next shift.
Abridge is a documentation platform your hospital buys.
Abridge centers on health-system deployment of documentation and clinical assistance, including emergency medicine. A public individual signup or trial is not advertised.
palmER puts your entire shift in your hands.
Keep multiple workups moving. Turn your chart into an EM-native MDM, get clinical answers, prepare consult calls, and review the chart before you sign. palmER also spots documentation needs for critical care, procedures, and sepsis and drafts the supporting notes. Finish with discharge instructions, work notes, and school notes. All in one subscription.
You signed one note. What else still exists?
Abridge publishes no Customer Data retention window; contract and BAA terms govern. palmER never stores ambient audio and deletes patient data within 24 hours.
Your signed note belongs in your EHR. The drafts, transcripts, and questions that helped you get there don't need a permanent home in your AI tool. With palmER, they expire automatically.
What the public documents say.
The public privacy policy says customer agreements and BAAs govern Customer Data and does not publish a clinical audio, transcript, or draft window. Its optional mobile voiceprint statement is separate from clinical encounter data.
Help on shift. Patient data gone within 24 hours.
Audio is never stored. Transcripts, drafts, edits, and questions automatically delete within 24 hours. Patient data is never used to train AI models.
palmER and Abridge compared.
Public product materials describe ambient capture and clinically useful, billable notes embedded in EHR workflows.
Ambient Scribe auto-generates HPI and Physical Exam from live encounters and adds the results, plans, consults, reassessments, and disposition discussed to the MDM, where they can be edited anytime; audio is transcribed and immediately discarded.
Public materials describe contextual notes and specialty workflows across the encounter; the public ED announcement does not enumerate every HPI or exam field.
Dedicated HPI and Physical Exam Assistants with complaint-specific positives and negatives.
Public materials name Epic Haiku/Hyperspace workflows and integrations with Oracle Health and athenahealth; Linked Evidence is described in the EHR workflow.
Works alongside any EMR without requiring an integration.
Pricing is not public; access starts with contacting sales.
$199/month for clinicians. Approved students and residents pay $49/month after verification. Both include unlimited access to every tool.
No public self-serve trial or individual trial terms were found on the checked product and privacy pages.
Every tool free for 30 days. No credit card and no automatic billing.
Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine is described as integrated with Epic ASAP and designed for fast-paced ED conversations, but the product is multi-specialty rather than ED-only.
Built specifically for emergency medicine and urgent care by emergency physicians.
Multi-specialty; emergency medicine is not the primary audience.
Emergency and urgent care medicine.
Public ED materials do not describe a structured medical-decision-making output covering differential, data reviewed, risk, and disposition.
Writes a structured MDM from the chart and the clinical details captured by Ambient Scribe: differential, data reviewed, risk, clinical reasoning, and disposition.
A dedicated pasted-chart-to-ED-MDM workflow was not established in the reviewed pages.
Paste your chart to draft an EM-native MDM in seconds. Review and update it as the encounter progresses.
Abridge describes evidence-based questions and clinical decision support, but does not publicly document a structured ED differential-diagnosis builder.
Most Serious and Most Likely differential panels generate alongside the MDM.
The ED announcement describes juggling multiple patients and conversations; it does not document a patient-list or tracking-panel feature.
Tracks active and completed patients as multiple workups progress throughout the shift.
Linked Evidence and prior-encounter context are described inside the EHR workflow; a standalone chart-view surface is not documented.
Unified Chart View renders HPI, Exam, and MDM together for review and refinement.
Clinical questions use encounter context and medical references within its broader platform.
Ask clinical questions with the case in context. palmER also spots documentation needs for critical care, procedures, and sepsis and drafts the supporting notes.
Public product pages do not describe consult or referral scripts.
ConsultER generates structured specialty consult scripts.
Coding, billing-code alignment, and audit-oriented notes are described; clinician-facing chart-quality review is not explicitly documented.
Reviews the chart for missing or incomplete documentation before you sign.
Abridge describes evidence-based questions and named clinical references in its broader intelligence platform, but not an ED-specific reference library.
Integrated palmEM AI knowledge base for instant EM clinical reference.
The public privacy policy defers Customer Data handling to customer agreements and BAAs and does not publish a clinical audio, transcript, or draft retention window.
Encounter audio is not stored. Patient data automatically deletes within 24 hours and is not used to train AI models.
Less charting. More shift handled.
Make your next shift the one where the MDM, consult preparation, and discharge paperwork stop piling up. palmER brings those jobs together with clinical answers, patient tracking, and chart review.
Choose it yourself. Use it beside your current EMR. Get unlimited access to every tool for $199/month after a full-access 30-day trial, with no credit card and no automatic billing.
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Asked often. Answered plainly.
Is palmER a good Abridge alternative?+
Yes. palmER was built for emergency and urgent care clinicians who want help with their entire shift: EM-native MDM, multiple active workups, clinical answers, consult preparation, chart review, and discharge documents. You can start yourself, use it beside any EMR, and try every tool free for 30 days.
How does Abridge fit emergency medicine?+
Abridge supports emergency medicine as one of multiple specialties; it is not exclusively positioned for the ED. palmER was built specifically for emergency medicine and urgent care.
Does Abridge offer a public free trial?+
No public self-serve trial or trial duration was found on the checked pages. palmER offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required.
What does Abridge cost?+
Abridge does not publish a price or public individual purchase path on the pages reviewed. palmER is $199/month for unlimited access to every tool. Approved students and residents pay $49/month after verification. The full-access 30-day trial requires no credit card and ends without automatic billing.
What does Abridge retain after an encounter?+
The public privacy policy says customer agreements and BAAs govern Customer Data and does not publish a clinical audio, transcript, or draft window. Its optional mobile voiceprint statement is separate from clinical encounter data. palmER never stores encounter audio, automatically deletes patient data within 24 hours, and uses AI providers under zero-retention agreements.
How does palmER compare on MDM?+
Paste your chart and palmER builds a structured ED MDM, including clinical reasoning, differential, data reviewed, risk, and disposition. You do not need to write out the reasoning first. palmER also uses the results, plans, consults, reassessments, and disposition you discuss during ambient scribing, and updates an existing MDM when you discuss something new. A dedicated ED MDM workflow was not established in the Abridge sources reviewed. With palmER, chart review, clinical answers, consult preparation, and discharge tools are included in the same subscription.
What about EHR integration?+
Public materials describe Epic ASAP in Haiku and Hyperspace for the Emergency Medicine suite, plus Epic, Oracle Health, and athenahealth integrations more broadly. palmER works alongside any EMR without requiring an integration. You review the documentation and copy the final version into the chart.
Every claim about Abridge on this page is grounded in the vendor's own public materials, linked below. Claims about palmER come from palm-er.com.
- Abridge homepage ↗
Abridge centers on health-system deployment of documentation and clinical assistance, including emergency medicine. A public individual signup or trial is not advertised.
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- Abridge product ↗
Describes EHR-embedded ambient notes, prior-encounter context, Linked Evidence, coding alignment, orders, and audit-oriented documentation.
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- Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine announcement ↗
Describes an Emergency Medicine suite integrated with Epic ASAP in Haiku and Hyperspace for fast-paced ED workflows.
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- Abridge clinical intelligence keynote ↗
Describes pre-charting, evidence-based questions, clinical documentation, summaries, billing codes, orders, and named clinical references in the broader platform.
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- Abridge privacy policy ↗
Excludes Customer Data from the public policy and says customer agreements and BAAs govern it; does not publish a clinical data retention window.
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