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← All perspectivesEdition 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 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 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 47: India's Obesity Crisis
NFHS-5 shows ~24% of Indian adults are overweight or obese, and rising. Why obesity is becoming a national economic challenge, ...
Edition 46: India Is Ready for AI in Healthcare. But Only in Parts.
India has the digital rails and policy momentum (ABDM, SAHI, BODH) to scale healthcare AI. But data quality, regulation depth a...
Edition 45: India just institutionalized Healthcare AI
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the government launched SAHI (AI strategy) and BODH (a privacy-preserving benchmarking plat...
Edition 42: India's diagnostics boom: the next scalable Healthcare Platform Play
India’s diagnostics market is moving from lab business to platform business, doubling by the early 2030s, consolidating into na...
Edition 41: India's Hospitals Are Not Ready for NHCX and DPDP
India built the digital health rails (ABDM, NHCX, DPDP) but only ~1-2% of hospitals are onboarded to NHCX. Hospital readiness, ...
Edition 40: India's First Government AI Clinic Is Live
GIMS Greater Noida launched India’s first government hospital-based AI clinic in Jan 2026, moving AI from pilots to frontline p...
Edition 38: 800 Million Health IDs; And People Still Ask 'What Is ABHA?'
India created ~80 crore ABHA IDs but a Maharashtra study found only 4% ever used ABHA services. The gap isn’t infrastructure, i...
Edition 37: India's National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX)
NHCX is India’s UPI moment for health claims: a national FHIR-based protocol that cuts claim cost from ~Rs500 to <Rs15, enfo...
Edition 34: Why a country that meets WHO's doctor benchmark still struggles
India’s 1:811 doctor ratio beats WHO’s benchmark, but public hospitals face 1:11,000. The crisis is maldistribution, not shorta...
Edition 33: Generic Medicines at Scale: Jan Aushadhi's 16,900+ stores
Medicines are ~two-thirds of Indian families’ health spend. Jan Aushadhi’s 16,900+ stores sell generics 50-90% cheaper, and the...
Edition 32: From Zero to 18,900: The Organ Story No One Signed Up For
India hit ~18,900 organ transplants in 2024, #3 globally, but donation is still under 1 per million. Policy reform and a digita...
Edition 31: India's IVF Boom: Technology and Lifestyle Redefining Parenthood
India’s fertility market is a $1.6bn enterprise growing 15-18% yearly, with 3.3 lakh IVF cycles set to double by 2030. PE money...
Edition 27: DPDP Act 2023: Turn compliance into competitive advantage
India’s first comprehensive data protection law carries penalties up to Rs250 crore. For hospitals, payers and enterprises it m...
Edition 26: India's Mental Health Crisis: The Silent Epidemic
197 million Indians (1 in 7) live with a mental health condition, yet only ~1% of the health budget goes to it. Tele-MANAS and ...
Edition 20: India's phygital healthcare is scaling: tap eSanjeevani
140 million consultations in, eSanjeevani is the foundation of India’s hybrid ‘phygital’ care model, and a sleeping giant of mo...
Edition 14: National Health Policy 2017 – Still Setting the Agenda in 2025
India’s NHP 2017 still guides budgets and Ayushman Bharat. Five enterprise takeaways: digital health infrastructure, PPPs, work...
Edition 11: Data retention poses a lurking threat in healthcare
Healthcare stores data for 7-30 years but 90%+ is never reused, inflating cost and breach risk. GDPR and DPDP say store only as...
Edition 10: The CIO Agenda Reset: From IT Fixers to Growth Drivers
Health plan CIOs face declining enrollment and shrinking reimbursements. The reset: stop fixing IT, become a growth architect, ...
Edition 7: Embrace Technology to Address the Healthcare Delivery Crisis
By 2035 the US faces an 80,000+ physician shortage as chronic disease and aging surge. AI, wearables and smart-home tech enable...
Edition 3: Harness IoT to revolutionize autism care
Autism is up 317% since 2000 (1 in 36 US children), with societal cost nearing $461bn by 2025. IoT, wearables, smart homes, rem...