Faridabad, Jantantra Today / New Delhi :—– In hospitals, a quiet paradox defines modern medicine — doctors spend years learning to treat patients, yet a significant part of their day is spent typing about them. A cardiologist in a busy OPD sees many patients but spends hours with typing and documentation. Amrita now aims to change that equation.
The institution has introduced MedSum, an artificial-intelligence clinical assistant that listens to doctor–patient conversations and automatically converts them into structured medical notes, prescriptions and patient-friendly summaries — in multiple Indian languages.
Developed by the School of Artificial Intelligence at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Faridabad, in collaboration with Amrita Technologies and Amrita Hospitals, MedSum is designed to strengthen both sides of care: the clinician’s time and the patient’s understanding.
Restoring Doctor Time and Patient Understanding
MedSum addresses two of the most persistent challenges in modern healthcare: limited doctor–patient time and unequal access to medical information.
1. Returning Time to the Doctor–Patient Relationship
Imagine a consultation where the doctor never looks away from the patient — no typing, no dictating, no paperwork waiting at the end of the day. MedSum listens quietly in the background and, by the time the consultation ends, clinical notes, prescriptions and hospital-ready documentation are already written. Doctors can focus fully on listening, reasoning and caring — while the record completes itself.
2. Delivering Medical Information in the Patient’s Own Voice Language
MedSum generates simplified summaries of the consultation and delivers them as voice recordings in the patient’s own language — Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, or any of the Indian languages the platform supports. Whether you are an elderly patient in a village or a young farmer, you can hear your medical information, clearly, in your own language, as many times as you need.
Already in Clinical Use
MedSum is not a prototype being tested in a lab. It is already deployed and tested with many patients. It is working across departments including gynaecology, oncology, neurosurgery and paediatric neurology within Amrita Hospitals — through three connected interfaces: a doctor dashboard, a patient app and an administrative console.
Dr. Sachin Gupta, Dermatologist, Amrita Hospital Faridabad: “In a busy OPD, documentation can consume a third of a doctor’s day. Details get missed and patients feel rushed. Working closely with Prof. Kamal Bijlani and the AI team, we arrived at something that genuinely gives us back our time — where it belongs: with the patient.”
Prof. Kamal Bijlani, Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham: “When clinicians shared their challenges, we knew the solution had to be built for India — not only technically, but contextually. MedSum runs on BharatGen, India’s own large language model, and we have validated it in real clinical settings at Amrita Hospitals. We also ensured that medical information is delivered in voice, in the patient’s own language.
As guided by our Chancellor Amma, Amrita’s motto is compassionate research and maximum societal impact — and MedSum is a direct expression of that.”
Powered by BharatGen & Showcased at India AI Impact Summit 2026
MedSum was recently showcased as a flagship healthcare application at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (February 17) during the public launch of BharatGen — India’s nationally developed family of large language models, built from the ground up to understand Indian languages, contexts and needs. MedSum runs on the Param-17B BharatGen model, making it one of the first clinical AI tools to be powered entirely by India’s own AI infrastructure.
The showcase took place in the presence of Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister, DST; Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India; Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, DST; Shri S. Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY; and Dr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys.
This national recognition reflects the collective effort of the MedSum teams at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Technologies, Amrita Hospitals and BharatGen — and stands as a proud demonstration of what becomes possible when institutional research, clinical collaboration and sovereign AI infrastructure come together in service of the patient.
About MedSum
MedSum is an AI-powered clinical documentation assistant developed by the School of Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Amrita Hospitals and Amrita Technologies. The system converts doctor–patient conversations into structured medical documentation, prescriptions and multilingual patient summaries, and is powered by BharatGen, India’s sovereign large language model.
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