A startup located in the center of the Shivamogga district of Karnataka is quietly changing how hospitals process documentation. Unriddle Technologies Pvt Ltd is an Indian based startup that was established by Akshay V Nayak and Karthik B S, who are engineers and came up with a solution to one of the thorniest stones in Indian healthcare, which is the mountain of paperwork that delays patient care. DScribe is their innovation, a digital documentation tool, which is meant to streamline the workflows in hospitals without interfering with current routines, which is uncommon in the realm of health tech.

Innovation and standout features of DScribe

The concept of DScribe was not created in the tech lab or a boardroom; it was created in the daily routine of Indian hospitals. Akshay and Karthik took time to monitor the tasks performed by nurses and doctors and realized that they spent more time on file management than on patients. This discovery created a simple yet effective observation: hospitals were not opposing the digital solutions because they did not want to; they were opposing because most digital solutions complicated their work.

The already implemented electronic medical record (EMR) systems, which were typically Western models of healthcare, were found to be too stiff and complicated in the Indian environment. They demanded a lot of training, workflow interruption, and could not fit into the specifics of local hospital work. Akshay and Karthik found a chance of creating something unique, something instinctive, light, and something that suits the healthcare realities of India.

DScribe is designed with a tablet and stylus interface, which resembles writing on paper. The doctors and the nurses can write down notes as they normally do, after which the system by default converts, arranges, and stores the information. This method maintains the comfort of the document in paper format but opens up the advantages of the digital world, including real-time retrieval of records, interdepartmental communication, and audit history.

DScribe has been shown to have one of its best attributes, the AI-based discharge summary, which is capable of automatically formulating summaries using patient records. This not only saves the clinicians the tedious manual labor but also accelerates the process of discharge, which is the biggest bottleneck in most hospitals. The solution also helps to meet the requirements of regulatory standards and minimize the threats of documentation mistakes. 

Key role in scaling digital solutions in resource-constrained environments

DScribe has been able to digitize more than 1.6 million paper sheets and has spread to 15 hospitals so far in Karnataka, including Shivamogga, Davanagere, Bengaluru, Chitradurga, and Haveri. The bulk of this expansion has been by word of mouth, a testimony to the usefulness and effect of the tool. Unriddle Technologies has a gross revenue of ₹65 lakh in 10 months only, and this shows that the company is making good progress in the market.

Unriddle Technologies is not resting on inpatient documentation. It is in the process of developing an outpatient department (OPD) variant of DScribe that will expand its benefits to clinics and primary care centers. The team is also considering expanding to other cities in India and other international markets where hospitals have the same issues of not adopting digital.

The founders are convinced that their philosophy of creating tools that can be easily integrated into the current workflows is the way to scale the digital health solutions under the conditions of resource-constrained settings. They intend to simplify, make DScribe affordable and flexible so that it becomes a standard in mid-sized hospitals and later larger hospitals. 

Conclusion

Unriddle Technologies is demonstrating that not all innovations need to be disruptive. In a nation where medical infrastructure can easily be overwhelmed by demand, often with inadequate results, innovation can be as simple as sympathy, observation, and considered design. DScribe is making hospitals more efficient, responsive, and patient-centered by digitizing hospital paperwork in a manner that is easy to use by the end users. DScribe has the potential to become a pillar of the digital transformation of the Indian health sector, one hospital file at a time.