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Written and spoken pieces on AI in healthcare, clinical implementation, governance, and hospital leadership.
43 pieces · sorted by date
- ESSAY14 August 2026
The Fifth Lever: the patient digital twin as a hospital's strategic asset
India's hospital chains all pull the same four levers – beds, doctors, marketing, cost. The one asset none of them lists is the one that compounds.
AI in Healthcare · Hospital Operations · AI Governance · 21 min read
- ESSAY13 June 2026
A Sevak, Not a Guru: rebuilding the chain of transmission with AI
For three thousand years India's classical knowledge survived by being spoken, guru to shishya. That chain is thinning. AI can help rebuild it – but only if it is built to serve the texts, not to speak over them.
Building AI · Learning · Culture · 7 min read
- ESSAY13 June 2026
Four Letters, Zero Data: the case for quantifying the pupillary light reflex
In 2019 I wrote that the doctor's bedside instruments belong in a museum. Pupilux is one of those predictions, built – and the case for measuring a reflex that has been judged by eye for over a century.
Clinical Practice · Clinical AI · Building AI · 8 min read
- ESSAY13 June 2026
One-on-One, at Scale: what building far from medicine taught me about carrying a master's judgment
I build instruments for clinicians. CineCoach took me to the opposite end of the spectrum (a Paris cinematographer's craft), and the hardest part of the build was teaching an eager AI to withhold, the way a real teacher does.
Building AI · Learning · Culture · 7 min read
- VIDEO17 February 2026
Transforming Healthcare with AI Innovations — India AI Impact Summit
A session at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on AI-driven healthcare advances and their real-world deployment in emerging markets.
AI in Healthcare · Clinical AI · AI Governance · Building AI · 51:30
- ESSAY15 May 2025
The AI Co-Pilot for Every Healthcare Hero: reimagining talent in India's hospitals
Every clinician, nurse, and hospital operator deserves an AI co-pilot – and India's talent pipeline is ready for it.
AI in Healthcare · Hospital Operations · Leadership · 6 min read
- ESSAY12 May 2025
The Occupancy Paradox: a data-driven approach to patient acquisition through community engagement
Why the marginal bed is won on the ground, not on a billboard – a former hospital CEO's framework for hyperlocal growth.
Hospital Operations · Public Health · 7 min read
- ESSAY29 April 2025
AI for Healing Hospitals
Navigating the next wave in Indian healthcare – a practical lens on where AI can actually unburden clinicians and operators.
AI in Healthcare · Clinical AI · Hospital Operations · 5 min read
- ESSAY28 April 2025
Beyond the Pilot: a practical framework for building a scalable AI roadmap in your health system
Why most AI pilots stall – and the strategic, foundational, and organisational moves that unstick them.
AI in Healthcare · AI Governance · Hospital Operations · 4 min read
- VIDEO24 April 2025
Beyond the Pilot: a practical framework for building scalable AI in healthcare
Short walkthrough of the framework that turns AI pilots into a scalable health-system roadmap.
AI in Healthcare · AI Governance · Hospital Operations · 1:49
- ESSAY16 April 2025
Beyond the Algorithm: a leader's strategic framework for successful healthcare AI adoption
What leaders need to get right before the model even ships.
AI in Healthcare · AI Governance · Leadership · 6 min read
- ESSAY16 April 2025
The AI Healthcare Revolution: a reality check from the clinic, corner office, and code
Where AI actually belongs in today's healthcare – and where it doesn't, yet.
AI in Healthcare · Clinical AI · AI Governance · 5 min read
- TALK1 November 2024
A conversation with Eka Care on AI, prevention, and the next era of healthcare
On moving from a hospital-centric model to preventive, AI-assisted personal health — and what the shift asks of the clinicians and operators who come after us.
- VIDEO1 October 2024
How healthcare has evolved for doctors — in conversation with Eka Care
From family doctors to complex digital ecosystems — what has changed for the practising clinician.
Clinical Practice · Hospital Operations · 5:22
- VIDEO28 September 2024
How AI can help you become healthier — in conversation with Eka Care
On the shift from reactive, hospital-centric care to continuous, AI-assisted prevention.
AI in Healthcare · Public Health · 5:08
- VIDEO27 September 2024
How India is shaping the strongest generations of tomorrow
India's unique position to reshape child and family health through AI and telemedicine.
Public Health · AI in Healthcare · 7:24
- VIDEO24 September 2024
On his core drive
A minute on the motivation behind four decades across medicine and technology.
Career · 1:00
- VIDEO22 September 2024
A quick review of AI in nephrology
The current state of AI applications in nephrology, for practising clinicians.
Clinical AI · Clinical Practice · 11:05
- VIDEO22 September 2024
The technology behind AI for clinicians
The under-the-hood of the AI systems clinicians are starting to work alongside.
Building AI · Clinical AI · AI in Healthcare · 8:46
- VIDEO19 September 2024
AI in healthcare — a short introduction
A forty-five-second take on what AI means for healthier lives.
AI in Healthcare · Public Health · 0:44
- VIDEO17 September 2024
Public health perspectives
On population-scale health, and the responsibility that follows from the number of children India raises each year.
Public Health · Digital Health Policy · 7:56
- VIDEO14 August 2024
On life, legacy, and the future of medicine
An extended conversation — from the operating room at AIIMS to building AI for healthcare.
Career · AI in Healthcare · Public Health · 35:52
- VIDEO13 December 2023
AI and biomedicine — Cambridge Alumni Symposium
Cambridge Alumni Symposium talk on the intersection of AI and biomedicine.
AI in Healthcare · Building AI · Clinical AI · 18:23
- VIDEO27 January 2022
ABDM Series — how citizens can use and benefit from the ABDM ecosystem
How citizens can use and benefit from India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
Digital Health Policy · Public Health · 47:23
- VIDEO9 December 2021
ABDM Series — how hospitals can adopt and use ABDM-linked solutions
How hospitals can adopt and implement ABDM-linked solutions in their operations.
Digital Health Policy · Hospital Operations · 1:04:11
- VIDEO24 August 2021
Converge @ Walmart — panel on the new frontiers of healthcare
Panel conversation on innovation, technology, and access in the new frontiers of healthcare.
AI in Healthcare · Hospital Operations · 34:41
- ESSAY31 December 2019
Healthcare Revolution Part II: 5 Ways We Will be Living Better By 2030
Written in 2019: the non-healthcare trends — digitalisation, AI, gaming, robotics, implants — that would reshape how we live by 2030.
AI in Healthcare · Clinical AI · Public Health · 9 min read
- ESSAY29 December 2019
Healthcare Revolution — Part I: Living Longer
The innovations that drove a century of human health — and three lessons they teach about where medicine goes next.
Public Health · Clinical Practice · 10 min read
- VIDEO10 October 2019
BuddhiMed at Cypher 2019 — merging medicine with computer science
Career overview and the mission behind BuddhiMed — merging medicine with computer science.
Building AI · AI in Healthcare · Career · 4:05
- VIDEO29 September 2019
How AI is transforming the future of the healthcare industry
A long-form talk on how AI is reshaping healthcare, from the operating theatre to the boardroom.
AI in Healthcare · Clinical AI · Career · 31:07
- VIDEO26 July 2019
Panel discussion — the healthcare sector
Panel conversation on the structural shifts within India's healthcare sector.
Hospital Operations · Public Health · 29:04
- VIDEO13 May 2018
The changing face of healthcare — ISB Leadership Summit 2017
ISB Leadership Summit talk on how leadership and technology are reshaping healthcare delivery.
Hospital Operations · Leadership · 29:19
- VIDEO11 July 2017
Hospitals of tomorrow
A long-form session on what the hospitals of the next decade look like.
Hospital Operations · AI in Healthcare · 54:20
- VIDEO1 December 2016
Science and mindfulness
A short reflection on the place of mindfulness alongside scientific leadership.
Clinical Practice · Culture · 4:30
- VIDEO28 October 2016
Mobile healthcare at a dollar a day
On delivering meaningful healthcare through mobile technology at the cost of a dollar a day.
Public Health · Digital Health Policy · 10:27
- VIDEO4 July 2016
Manipal pays tribute to all doctors — National Doctors' Day
National Doctors' Day tribute from Manipal Hospitals.
Clinical Practice · Culture · 4:23
- VIDEO24 February 2016
As Managing Director and CEO of Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru — ETHealthWorld
Interview as Managing Director and CEO of Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru.
Leadership · Hospital Operations · 11:09
- VIDEO12 January 2016
IIMBx insight clip — leading Manipal Health Enterprises
A short IIMBx insight clip on leading Manipal Health Enterprises.
Leadership · Public Health · 0:42
- VIDEO21 July 2015
Healthcare Summit Rajasthan '15 — technology for e-initiatives in healthcare
Panel appearance on technology and e-initiatives for state-level healthcare.
Public Health · Digital Health Policy · 6:43
- VIDEO14 March 2014
Business Forum inaugural — Max Healthcare at SOIL
Inaugural address at SOIL on the business of healthcare in India.
Leadership · Hospital Operations · 58:57
- VIDEO16 May 2013
Biz Lounge — Max Healthcare's CEO on corporate culture
Mint's Biz Lounge interview as Max Healthcare CEO — on culture inside the hospital group.
Leadership · 7:17
- VIDEO16 May 2013
Biz Lounge — Max Healthcare's CEO, a lighter conversation
Mint's Biz Lounge interview as Max Healthcare CEO — a lighter, personal conversation.
Career · 7:48
- VIDEO16 May 2013
Biz Lounge — Max Healthcare's CEO talks business
Mint's Biz Lounge interview as Max Healthcare CEO — on running the business.
Hospital Operations · Leadership · 8:22
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