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Digital health, decoded.
The real story behind India's healthcare numbers, for operators, investors, and policy people who want signal, not press releases. One deep dive every Friday, by Mayank Madhur.
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The 100 Crore Illusion
India built the world's largest digital health ID system. The one number that proves it works has gone missing.
Read → ED. 59What DPDPA changes for healthcare
The Act flipped the asymmetry between provider and patient. Five stakeholder snapshots of what actually changed.
Read → ED. 54The Four Indias of Healthcare
Why "pan-India" is usually a lie. The market isn't one, it's four, each with different economics and failure modes.
Read →Edition 61: The 100 Crore Illusion
India built the world’s largest digital health ID system in record time. The one number that proves it actually works has quiet...
Edition 60: What India's newest National Family Health Survey really tells us — and why the next decade of health will look nothing like the last
For forty years, India fought one battle: keep mothers and babies alive, and get people into the health system. The sixth Natio...
Edition 59: What India's DPDPA actually changes for healthcare
The Act, in force since November 2025, flipped the asymmetry between provider and patient. The “file” the hospital owned for 50...
Edition 58: Ebola is back — why India should pay attention
A 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak is unfolding. India has zero cases and low direct risk. But the real story is diagnostics, pre...
Edition 57: The 1% Problem Every Indian Pharma CEO Is Ignoring
India’s pharma market grew 8.1% last year. Only 1.5% came from real demand. Why the other 6.6% is a slow-moving crisis, and how...
Edition 56: The Orchestration Gap — Why Mid-Tier Indian Hospitals Are Losing
International patients are knocking. Mid-tier hospitals aren’t converting. What Tier-1 chains figured out about medical tourism...
Edition 55: India's biggest healthcare bet isn't a hospital
While headlines obsess over new AIIMS and hospital IPOs, India is rebuilding healthcare from the bottom up. The pyramid, eight ...
Edition 54: The Four Indias of Healthcare
Why “pan-India” is usually a lie. India’s healthcare market isn’t one market, it’s four, each with different economics, payers,...
Edition 53: India just cracked the code on 400 years of energy independence
India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor achieved first criticality. Why it makes India the only democracy running commercial fas...
Edition 52: India has built the world's largest preventive health system. Now it must prove it works.
India built the world’s largest preventive health infrastructure: 1.8 lakh AAMs, 834M ABHA IDs, Tele-MANAS at scale. The execut...
Edition 51: Autism is a system design failure India can no longer ignore
Families don’t struggle because care doesn’t exist. They struggle because nothing connects. Why India’s autism crisis is a desi...
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