There is a quiet, exhausting reality at the heart of the Indian healthcare system. Despite having some of the most brilliant medical minds in the world, the actual data of patient care is fundamentally fragmented. When a patient walks into a clinic, their medical history is usually scattered across paper files, old WhatsApp messages, and unorganized email threads. We force doctors into a frustrating trade-off: either spend half the consultation typing into clunky electronic medical records instead of looking at the patient, or scribble a quick prescription on paper that is lost the moment they walk out the door. We have digitized payments and commerce at scale, yet patient care remains trapped in an analog, disconnected silo.
It takes builders with a profound grasp of population-scale technology and the operational rigor to change deeply ingrained behavior to solve this at the root. That is exactly what Vikalp Sahni and Deepak Tuli are doing with Eka Care.
Founded in 2020 by the seasoned entrepreneurs who previously built platforms like Goibibo, Vikalp and Deepak are building a deeply intelligent, AI-native connected health ecosystem that seamlessly bridges the gap between doctors, patients, and India’s unified digital health infrastructure.
Eka Care deploys advanced, medically-tuned AI to completely remove the friction of clinical documentation. With EkaScribe, their proprietary AI medical scribe, a doctor simply speaks with the patient naturally. The platform listens, autonomously structures the medical context, and generates a precise clinical note and prescription in under 30 seconds — supporting multiple Indian languages. For patients, the platform intelligently aggregates messy lab reports, scanned files, and vitals into a single, unified longitudinal health record.
The true moat here is uncompromising interoperability paired with zero-friction adoption. Eka Care doesn’t ask doctors to become data entry clerks; it adapts to how they already work. By deeply integrating with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), it ensures that patient data is not only secure but effortlessly portable. It shifts the paradigm from isolated, transactional doctor visits to continuous, data-driven care.
The market? Thousands of clinics, hospitals, and independent doctors across India who desperately need to modernize their practices without sacrificing the human connection of a consultation.
Seeing homegrown founders head-down, bringing the same rigorous scale they applied to consumer tech to fundamentally rewire the plumbing of Indian healthcare, is profoundly inspiring. They are giving doctors their time and patients their health history back.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
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