By:-Deepak Tuli, Co-founder and COO, Eka Care
As 2025 draws to a close, India’s HealthTech sector stands out for the significant strides made in reshaping how healthcare is delivered, documented, and experienced. The year saw widespread adoption of technology by doctors through solutions such as EkaScribe, making digital clinical documentation mainstream. This shift has enabled the seamless generation and linking of health records via the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission . Growing trust in digital platforms, coupled with deeper use of AI to reduce the administrative burden on doctors, has led to improved patient engagement and more efficient care delivery. From remote clinics to large urban hospitals, technology has played a pivotal role in making healthcare more accessible, transparent, and patient-centric.
Doctor scribing is no longer confined to India it has evolved into a global movement. For the first time, physicians worldwide are actively endorsing technologies that not only save time but also enhance clinical documentation quality and patient outcomes. While global innovators such as Abridge and Haiedi are shaping this shift internationally, India continues to build strong momentum within its own healthcare ecosystem through platforms like EkaScribe.
The year also witnessed deeper collaboration between hospitals, clinicians, technology platforms, and developer communities. These partnerships accelerated the adoption of digital tools that enhance clinical efficiency, streamline workflows, and enable secure data sharing across care settings. In 2025, Medanta Hospital adopted Eka Care’s EMR and EkaScribe to strengthen clinical documentation workflows, while Apollo Hospitals deployed Eka Care’s Agentic AI chatbot to enhance patient engagement and support operational efficiency. The growing adoption of open-source AI validation frameworks, multilingual digital interfaces, and seamless insurance-support solutions further strengthened the foundation of India’s digital health infrastructure.
Within this broader transformation, platforms such as Eka Care continued to drive meaningful impact through a strong focus on interoperability, AI-driven clinical documentation, and simplified access to digital health records for diverse patient groups. By the end of 2025, Eka Care had enabled access to digital health records for over 100 million individuals across India, with more than 110 million records digitized and made available through secure, consent-driven mechanisms, including ABDM-linked systems where applicable. Its AI-powered tools, including EkaScribe and DocAssist, helped reduce doctors’ scribing time by up to 70 percent, allowing clinicians to focus more meaningfully on patient care rather than paperwork.
Initiatives such as Ekathon 2025, conducted in collaboration with AWS, further strengthened the developer ecosystem by enabling the creation of ABDM-compliant applications, including zero-rejection insurance claims tools and multilingual voice assistants. The launch of KARMA, an open-source AI testing and validation framework built on one of India’s largest health datasets, marked a significant step toward establishing benchmarks for trust, reliability, and accountability in clinical AI.
The impact of this digital transformation is also reflected in ecosystem growth, with over 40,000 doctors now part of connected digital care platforms, a developer community exceeding 160 partners, and the expanding deployment of AI-enabled solutions across both public and private healthcare settings.
As the sector moves into 2026, the focus is expected to deepen around trust, data portability, AI reliability, and inclusive digital care pathways. The progress made in 2025 signals a HealthTech ecosystem that is steadily advancing toward a more connected, equitable, and empowered healthcare future for India.