EkaCare Partners with NHA to Deploy Ambient AI Voice Scribe for Public Healthcare Doctors

The Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe uses EkaCare's Parrotlet-A 2.5 Pro speech model and Lipi, its open-source agentic harness, to convert conversations into structured clinical documentation.

Healthtech company EkaCare has been selected by the National Health Authority (NHA) as a technology partner to deploy an Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe for doctors in public healthcare facilities under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).

The solution has been designed to convert doctor-patient conversations into structured digital health records, potentially reducing documentation workloads and allowing doctors to focus more on patient care.

India's digital health infrastructure has continued to expand through initiatives such as ABDM, which aims to establish interoperable digital health records and support the exchange of health information across the healthcare ecosystem. Accurate clinical documentation remains an important part of this effort, particularly in public health facilities that handle large numbers of consultations.

Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe technology can help address this challenge by capturing consultations and preparing clinical notes without requiring doctors to type every detail manually.

EkaCare, operating as Orbi Health, was selected through NHA's Expression of Interest process for open-source ambient AI-enabled voice-to-text solutions for digital health record creation. The company demonstrated its technology before NHA's Evaluation Committee.

The solution was also presented at NHA's National Review Meeting with States and Union Territories in Kolkata on 5 and 6 November 2026. The deployment will run on NHA infrastructure powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe uses EkaCare's Parrotlet-A 2.5 Pro speech model and Lipi, its open-source agentic harness, to convert conversations into structured clinical documentation.

It supports more than 15 Indian languages, including multilingual conversations, and has been benchmarked across languages such as Indian English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Telugu.

The generated clinical notes cover patient complaints, medical history, medications, vital signs, laboratory findings, diagnosis and treatment plans. They follow speciality-specific templates and use Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), the standard adopted within ABDM.

Before a note is saved and linked to a patient's Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), a verified doctor must review and approve it, retaining clinical oversight of the documentation process.

Hospitals can access the Voice Scribe through its dedicated interface, integrate it into existing Hospital Management Information Systems (HMIS), or use APIs based on the open MedScribe Alliance standard. The solution is designed to operate within NHA's air-gapped secure environment, supporting data sovereignty within the public health system.

“With the Voice Scribe, a doctor can speak with the patient in the language they are comfortable in, and a structured clinical note is ready for review when the consultation ends. Parrotlet-A and Lipi were built in India, for the way India speaks. Through this partnership with NHA, doctors in India's public health system will have cutting-edge technology to help them provide better care while reducing documentation burden,” Bhaskar Chaudhary, Chief Product Officer, EkaCare

The deployment builds on EkaCare's experience with EkaScribe, its ambient medical scribe used by more than 1,000 doctors in private practice. Its implementation under ABDM will bring Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe technology into India's public healthcare infrastructure, with its wider impact depending on adoption, integration and performance in routine clinical settings.

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