Abstractive Health vs Evidently (2026)
Both read longitudinal records with AI and link what they return to its source. Abstractive Health retrieves records from outside through the national exchanges, as a Carequality implementer, and summarizes them with every sentence linked to the source note, at a published price. Evidently reads the full record inside a health system, including scanned documents, faxes and outside records from Care Everywhere and CommonWell, and reasons over a medical knowledge graph with coding and quality rule sets to surface source linked findings. Choose Abstractive for outside records summarized for a clinician; choose Evidently for findings across a health system's whole record.
- You need records from other organizations pulled and summarized.
- A published price, with a free tier, suits how you buy.
- Individual clinicians should be able to use it.
- Scanned documents and faxes inside your own record need to be read.
- Coding and quality rule sets should inform what is surfaced.
- You are a health system buying through sales.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Abstractive Health and Evidently are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Abstractive Health | Evidently |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review |
| Founded | 2022 | Not recorded |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States | San Francisco, CA, US |
| Website | abstractivehealth.com | evidently.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Abstractive Health retrieves a patient's records from the national exchange networks and summarizes them, with every sentence of the summary linked to the source note it came from. The company is a Carequality implementer; its search looks for records around a patient's current and prior addresses, and it normalizes CCDA, FHIR R4, PDF and scanned documents into one record, with the original files downloadable.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Evidently, based in San Francisco, sells Clinical Data Intelligence: AI that reads the full longitudinal record, including scanned documents, faxes and outside records from Care Everywhere and CommonWell, reasons across a medical knowledge graph (ICD-10, SNOMED, RxNorm, LOINC with HCC, HEDIS, PSI, MCC and CC rule sets) and delivers source traced output inside the EHR. Surfaces include AI chart summaries, drafted notes, Ask Evidently chat and Omni, a real time view of the patient.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Abstractive Health and Evidently work with the EHR?
For Abstractive Health, the company is a Carequality implementer, lists CommonWell on its home page, and retrieves CCDA, FHIR R4, PDF and scanned documents into one normalized record, with the original files downloadable and exports in PDF, FHIR and JSON.
Evidently says it integrates with any SMART on FHIR enabled EHR and embeds inside the EHR, reads outside records from Care Everywhere and CommonWell, and UNC Health's executive director describes advancing integration with UNC's EHR; University of Iowa and Allina are also live. No integration documentation or listing names the write back path for drafted notes and suggestions. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Abstractive Health and Evidently priced and sold?
In Abstractive Health's case, a free clinician account (unlimited question answering, five patient searches with summaries and five PDF uploads a month), Standalone at $99 per user per month for up to five users, and an Organization plan at custom pricing, required above five users, with API access and EHR integration.
For Evidently, the only commercial signal is a customer reported 6x return, which describes claimed value rather than cost. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Abstractive Health and Evidently handle patient data?
With Abstractive Health, the terms say the company deletes customer information within 36 hours of termination, and the published business associate agreement requires return or destruction of PHI within 30 days of termination and permits use of data de-identified under the HIPAA safe harbor.
Evidently says Ask Evidently is built from the ground up around HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II compliance. It reads the whole record, including outside records from health information exchanges and scanned documents, and shapes outputs to each institution and clinician. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Abstractive Health and Evidently cover?
For Abstractive Health, the company names outpatient, inpatient and emergency use, pre-visit review, handoff notes, transitions of care and discharge summaries, and population work for the CMS ACCESS model; its case studies cover reproductive endocrinology and VA community care. The peer reviewed validation covers emergency to inpatient handoff notes at one site, and the SBIR study outpatient chart review by two physicians.
Evidently serves inpatient (admit notes, discharge summaries, CDI, denial appeals), outpatient and value based care (HCC review, care gaps), emergency medicine and perioperative work (pre operative and transplant review, registry abstraction, patient safety indicators). From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Evidently publishes no price.
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