Abstractive Health vs Regard (2026)
Both summarize the patient record for clinicians, from different sources. Abstractive Health retrieves records from outside the hospital through the national exchange networks, as a Carequality implementer searching around a patient's current and prior addresses, and summarizes them with every sentence linked to the source note. It publishes its price: a free tier and $99 per user a month for its standalone plan. Regard reads the whole record already inside the EHR when a clinician opens a chart, recommends diagnoses the chart supports but the notes do not yet carry, and drafts the note around them. Choose Abstractive to bring in what happened elsewhere; choose Regard to surface what your own chart already shows.
- You need records from other organizations, pulled through the national exchanges.
- Every sentence of a summary should link to its source note.
- A published price, with a free tier, suits how you buy.
- The record you need is already in your EHR, and nobody has time to read all of it.
- Diagnoses the chart supports should be surfaced before the note is signed.
- The draft note should be written inside the EHR.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Abstractive Health and Regard 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 | Regard |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review |
| Founded | 2022 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Website | abstractivehealth.com | regard.com |
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Product updates
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Product / capability
Sentara Health deployed a case management solution developed jointly with Regard, extending Regard's platform from physicians to hospital case managers.
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Clinical evidence
Regard published real-world outcome data from its deployment at Monument Health, demonstrating significant improvements in diagnostic capture.
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Each vendor in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph opens the AI Health Index profile of the vendor: what the product is, who buys it and what it does.
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
Regard reads the whole electronic health record when a clinician opens a chart, recommends diagnoses the chart supports but the notes do not yet carry, and drafts the note around them inside the EHR. The company's premise is that physicians see about 3 percent of the data in a chart.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Abstractive Health and Regard 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.
With Regard, the technology page names native support for Epic and Cerner, plus generic FHIR servers, and shows chart loads over Epic FHIR R4 triggered when a clinician opens the chart; the app embeds in the EHR through SMART on FHIR, and the company announced an integration with Microsoft Dragon Copilot in 2025. 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 Regard 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 Regard, the company frames value as return per user (4x at Sentara), offers a free HCC gap analysis to size the revenue opportunity before contract, and states go-lives of six to ten weeks with a dedicated team. 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 Regard 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.
In Regard's case, the privacy policy (updated June 2026) covers website comments, cookies and embedded media only and says nothing about patient data. Nothing states how long chart data is retained, whether customer data trains or tunes any model, or what reaches OpenAI when the GPT-4 based features (Max, note drafting) run. 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 Regard 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.
With Regard, the product began with hospitalists and leads with inpatient measures (CC and MCC capture, DRG movement). The company says 250+ conditions are detected across specialties and announced expansion to new specialties toward all admitted patients in March 2026, and HCC Capture and Screening reach ambulatory populations. 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.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Clinical Summarization & Chart Review page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Regard publishes no price. Suggesting diagnoses the notes do not yet carry also affects coding, so the clinical and financial effects of accepting a suggestion run together.
Ask Regard how often clinicians reject its suggestions, and ask Abstractive how often a patient's outside records are found.