Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has launched an AI-powered clinical assistant named MedSum, which listens to the conversation between doctors and patients and writes them down as medical records, prescriptions, and patient information in different Indian languages. The AI-powered clinical assistant aims to increase face-to-face interactions between doctors and patients. The invention of MedSum directly addresses one of the biggest paradoxes of modern healthcare, i.e., doctors wasting most of their time typing instead of interacting with patients.
Developed by the School of Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Faridabad, with collaboration from Amrita Technologies and Amrita Hospitals, MedSum is designed to increase the quality of the patient-doctor experience and the patient’s understanding of the condition. The AI-powered clinical assistant listens to the conversation between doctors and patients in real-time and generates clinical documentation by the end of the session, allowing doctors to focus on listening, thinking, and caring, and leaving the typing to the AI-powered clinical assistant.
Another unique feature of MedSum is that it can provide a simple summary of the consultation in the form of a voice message in the patient’s own language, including all the major Indian languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, etc. This helps the elderly patients or the rural population or those who are not proficient in English to replay the diagnosis or the treatment plan as many times as they want.
MedSum is already being used in various departments of Amrita Hospitals, including gynaecology, oncology, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology, etc., through a doctor dashboard, a patient app, as well as a console for the hospital administration.
“In a busy OPD, documentation can consume a third of a doctor’s day—time better spent on the patient. Working with Prof. Kamal Bijlani and the AI team, we’ve created something that genuinely gives us back our time—where it belongs: with the patient.” says Dr. Sachin Gupta, a Dermatologist at Amrita Hospital Faridabad who has closely worked on the development of MedSum.
Prof. Kamal Bijlani, the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, said, “MedSum was built with India in mind, both technically and contextually. It runs on BharatGen, India’s own large language model, which we have also validated in real-world settings at Amrita Hospitals. We have also ensured that the medical information provided to the patients is provided in the form of voice, in the patient’s own language. As guided by our Chancellor Amma, the motto of Amrita University is compassionate research and maximum societal impact, and MedSum is a direct expression of this.”
MedSum was featured as a flagship healthcare application at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, which was organized to mark the public launch of BharatGen, India’s family of large language models developed for Indian languages and contexts. It operates on the Param 17B BharatGen model, thus being the first clinical AI tool to operate completely on India’s own sovereign infrastructure.
The event was conducted in the presence of the national S&T leadership, including 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), which speaks to the importance of the MedSum innovation as a “Made in India” innovation in the field of digital health.
This national recognition is a testament to the efforts of the teams at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Technologies, Amrita Hospitals, and BharatGen, which shows the power of coming together to serve the patient.
