Burnout is rising, but doctors aren’t just asking for automation — they want tools that actually understand their work. getty

The hospital pager beeps. The patient backlog grows. And somewhere between charting, coding and clicking through drop-down menus, the doctor wonders — when did this job become so joyless ?

The healthcare burnout crisis isn’t new, but it’s growing a lot worse. Research by the AMA and Stanford Medicine in 2024 found that more than 60% of U.S. doctors said they were burnt out. The main reason was because they had to do too much paperwork and handled too many administrative responsibilities. The World Health Organization called burnout an “ occupational phenomenon ” in 2019, but it’s becoming more and more common in hospitals.

In response, several startups

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