India, July 21 -- Spend an evening in almost any busy clinic and you notice something that rarely makes the news. Long after the last patient has left, doctors are still at their desks, typing. Case notes, referral letters, discharge summaries, insurance forms. The medicine finished hours ago. The paperwork did not.

This is the quiet crisis inside modern healthcare, and it is finally getting attention. Study after study shows clinicians spending a large share of their working day on documentation rather than patients. The result is burnout, shorter consultations, and a strange inversion where the people trained for years to heal spend much of their time doing data entry.

Into this gap has stepped a new class of technology, and among the...