Ambience Healthcare, the leading intelligence platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced it has been named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner. Now in its second year, the Trailblazer Award recognizes an emerging vendor demonstrating exceptional leadership in innovation, impact, and client success.

Recipients are selected based on outstanding KLAS performance scores, meaningful client feedback, and measurable contributions to industry progress. In the judging process, Ambience stood out for its transformative leadership and ability to deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

“The KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award honors a vendor who not only achieves exceptional KLAS performance scores but also demonstrates transformative leadership and innovation,” said Adam Gale, KLAS CEO. “Ambience Healthcare is driving the healthcare industry forward with their commitment to advancing health and care through meaningful client feedback and measurable contributions to industry progress. KLAS is honored to collaborate with CHIME in offering this meaningful award and recognizing the contributions of Ambience Healthcare.”

Ambience is already trusted as a long-term partner by top academic medical centers and leading regional health systems, with enterprise deployments driving measurable impact. In two of the largest and most rigorous head-to-head evaluations of leading ambient AI solutions in healthcare, both MultiCare Health System and Houston Methodist selected Ambience for a full enterprise rollout. In the evaluation at MultiCare Health System, Ambience achieved a Net Promoter Score that was 63 points higher than the next best solution evaluated, reflecting strong confidence and enthusiasm among frontline clinicians. As adoption expands, Ambience creates an AI operating margin flywheel for health systems: the more the platform is used, the more intelligent it becomes—delivering compounding improvements in documentation precision, financial performance, and clinical quality over time.

“As health systems face mounting financial pressure and operational complexity, AI must do more than generate notes—it must generate enterprise value,” said Nikhil Buduma, CEO and Co-Founder of Ambience Healthcare. “We are honored to receive the KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award. This recognition reflects our role as the ROI engine for health systems—turning AI utilization into measurable, compounding impact on quality, efficiency, and financial performance.”

Ambience Healthcare is currently exhibiting at ViVE through February 25, 2026, in Los Angeles at booth #924. Media interested in meeting with company executives, including CEO and Co-Founder Nikhil Buduma, may contact adorta@ariamarketing.com.

About Ambience Healthcare

Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity. Trusted by top health systems across North America, Ambience’s platform is live across outpatient, emergency and inpatient settings, supporting more than 200 specialties with real-time, coding-aware documentation directly within major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and other leading investors.

About KLAS

KLAS has been providing accurate, honest, and impartial insights for the healthcare IT (HIT) industry since 1996. The KLAS mission is to improve the world’s healthcare by amplifying the voice of providers and payers. The scope of our research is constantly expanding to best fit market needs as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. KLAS finds the hard-to-get HIT data by building strong relationships with our payer and provider friends in the industry. Follow KLAS on LinkedIn. Learn more at: klasresearch.com.

About CHIME

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is the leading professional organization for digital health leadership. CHIME supports a global, multi-generational community of more than 3,000 individual members across 58 countries and two U.S. territories, including chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical and nursing information officers (CMIOs and CNIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs), and other senior, emerging, and future-facing healthcare technology leaders. CHIME also partners with over 200 CHIME Foundation firms that serve the healthcare IT community through innovative technologies and services. Through its tiered membership structure, educational programs, industry collaboration, and advocacy initiatives, CHIME provides a trusted, highly interactive environment for professional development, peer connection, and leadership advancement at every stage of a member's career. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

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