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Almost October and such a horrible weather #Chennai last few days. On top of it whole day power cut!
You can superimpose this anywhere in #life and get your answers. But Qs are important, framework to answer them are sacrosanct.
this goes deep n we have not even started. We will adopt, adapt, import things which were a disaster elsewhere and not learn. Because those who build bottom-up healthcare dont have money, support(even fm patients whom they might think of serving) n cant survive with corruption.
Cashless health insurance is legally sanctioned house arrest.
The doctor officially discharges you at 9 AM. You are fully recovered, your bags are packed and your family is ready to take you home.
Then the hospital administration steps in: "Sir, the insurance TPA approval is pending. Please remain seated in your room until we receive the final payment."
You then spend the next 8 to 12 hours held hostage in a ₹15,000-a-day hospital room.
You are no longer a patient but you are collateral. The hospital doesn't trust the insurance company to actually pay, the insurer is deliberately stalling to find a typo in your medical history to reject the claim and you are stuck in the middle of a corporate standoff.
We live in a country where UPI settles transactions in 300 milliseconds and automated trading algorithms move crores in a microsecond.
The system is designed to exhaust you. They want you so frustrated and desperate to go home that the next time you get sick, you just pay the cash upfront and file for a reimbursement which they will conveniently reject 45 days later citing "insufficient documentation."
If my policy is active and the hospital is in-network, the final discharge should be an instant and automated API settlement. Man I paid insurance company for this service.
Until we force insurers to adopt automated clearing, stop calling it a cashless facility.
Call it what it actually is: an extortion racket with a waiting room.
In 2005 I quit my employment with great ideas of #healthcare #startups, listened2 100s pitches(2c synergy n join) n luckily didnt.I know top-down, plugin doesnt work in this ecosystem in favour of patients, that it is an ecosystem/takes a decade atleast no biz model 'd accomodate
+1 for Doctors get hours back and
→ Patients get answers between visits
I've been a cardiologist for 25+ years. The last 90 days changed medicine more than the last decade, and almost nobody noticed. Here are the 10 biggest AI breakthroughs, and why you should be excited, not afraid 🧵
1/ 37,000 AI agents. One "virtual biotech." It analyzed thousands of trials, figured out which drug targets actually work in humans, and independently proposed a lung cancer strategy that a major pharma company later pursued. AI isn't a search engine anymore. It's a co-scientist.
2/ The first drug discovered AND designed entirely by AI (Insilico's rentosertib) just entered Phase 3. In patients, it reversed biological age by 3–6 years across six different aging clocks. Read that again!
3/ As a cardiologist, this one gives me chills. The FDA authorized "Queen of Hearts," an AI that reads a standard ECG and catches heart attacks, including the hidden ones doctors miss. 2x the sensitivity. Far fewer false alarms. It pages the cardiology team itself. In a heart attack, minutes are muscle.
4/ EchoNext spots 6 types of hidden structural heart disease from a cheap, 10-second ECG, and it does it better than cardiologists. It already flagged a patient who went on to get a heart transplant. Screening that used to need an echo lab now needs a test any clinic can run.
5/ UpDoc is the first FDA-cleared AI that talks directly to patients. It checks in between visits, adjusts insulin within limits the doctor sets, and documents everything in the chart. Chronic disease no longer has to wait for your next appointment.
6/ An autonomous AI agent called MIRA, with full access to medical records, went head-to-head with ER physicians on hundreds of real cases.
AI: 87.8% correct
Doctors: 78.1%
It ordered the tests, read the results, and wrote the plan.
7/ Google released MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, open medical AI for imaging and clinical speech that anyone can build on. Every hospital. Every researcher. Every country. Open models mean medicine moves at internet speed.
8/ The FDA authorized Aletta, the first robot that draws blood on its own. It gets the vein on the first stick 94–95% of the time, even hard veins. One technician supervises three robots. The most common procedure in medicine just got automated.
9/ UCLA's SLIViT matches specialists on 3D MRI, CT, ultrasound, and retinal scans, and it's 5,000x faster. It isn't a new model for every organ. One architecture reads them all.
10/ The FDA has now authorized 1,600+ AI medical devices. They cover radiology, cardiology, and surgery, including real-time AI that checks breast cancer margins while the patient is still on the table. This isn't coming. It's here.
What this means to you:
→ Drugs that took 10–15 years are showing human results in a fraction of the time
→ Heart attacks get caught on a cheap ECG, not after a collapse
→ Doctors get hours back
→ Patients get answers between visits
→ Aging itself is becoming treatable
This isn't "AI will replace your doctor." It's AI finally becoming good enough that medicine starts to compound. The next 18 months will feel different.
Bookmark this. We're early. Stay positive!!!
Varadharajan K retweeted
Most centenarians never had their VO₂ max, ApoB or omega-3 index checked.
They didn't live long because of good numbers. They lived long because of how they lived: moving every day, eating simply, sleeping well, staying close to people, and having some luck with their genes.
Tests can guide us but can't live for us.
The aim is not just a longer life but a longer healthy, independent and meaningful life.
Measure what matters.
Don't mistake measuring health for creating it.
Billion dollar GP business is waiting. With tech+AI much more attractive now. Quoted: Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest. #healthcare #startup #hIT
A 12 year old boy walks into my office having already seen a psychiatrist, an allergist, a lung doctor, maybe a GI doctor. Seven different drugs by age 12. Kicked out of kindergarten for being disruptive. Diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulant medication for years.
Nobody connected the dots. He also had asthma, headaches, stomachaches, insomnia. Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest.
I did a full workup instead of writing another prescription. His gut microbiome was a mess. Leaky gut. Elevated gluten antibodies. Reacting to dairy. Fungal overgrowth. Low zinc, low magnesium, low B6, low folate, low omega 3s. Lead toxicity.
He ate only processed food. Never a vegetable in his life.
So we removed the gluten, dairy, sugar and processed food. Rebuilt his microbiome with probiotics. Treated the fungal overgrowth. Chelated the lead. Corrected the nutrient deficiencies with magnesium, zinc, fish oil.
Two months later his mother brought him back. No more symptoms. No more meds. No more behavioral issues.
And his handwriting went from illegible to perfect penmanship. Same kid, same brain, two months apart.
That handwriting change is what made me write The UltraMind Solution. A brain that chaotic and disorganized became coherent and synchronized once we fixed what was happening in his body. The writing on the page was just a reflection of what was happening in his gut.
ADHD is not a brain problem. It's a systemic problem that shows up in the brain. If your kid's brain isn't working right, don't just look north of the neck. Look at what's happening south of the border first.
+1
I'm a cardiologist. Some of the most exhausted hearts I see belong to people with no blockages at all.
They are replaying a conversation from 2019. Rehearsing a disaster that hasn't happened. Demanding certainty from a life that never offered any.
The Japanese have a phrase: shikata ga nai.
"It cannot be helped."
It isn't surrender. It's refusing to spend your strength fighting what can't be changed, so you have some left for what can.
One question does most of the work:
Can I do something about this right now?
If yes, take one step. Not the whole solution. One step.
If no, put it down.
The past can't be edited. The future can't be guaranteed. Your body pays for every hour you spend in either one.
Overthinking rarely comes from having too many problems. It comes from replaying every mistake, controlling every outcome, and demanding answers life was never going to give you.
Do what you can.
Release what you can't.
Some things cannot be changed. Peace starts the moment you stop arguing with them.
Shikata ga nai.
This is where most of us miss it. Many are lucky. But not worth the risks.
Replying to @DocPriyamMD
4. Using headache as your blood-pressure monitor.
High BP is usually silent. For years, the heart pumps against extra pressure; its muscle can thicken and stiffen until filling or pumping becomes difficult.
Fix: Measure BP. Don’t wait to feel it.
Varadharajan K retweeted
I never realized jogging in your 50s would be a great way to meet new people.
Just today, I met two nurses, two EMTs, and a cardiologist.
I was so close to meeting Jesus too.
Lovely 😍 +1
Nearly 30 years in orthopedic surgery has taught me that giving someone more information is often one of the least effective ways to change behavior. I can explain arthritis, muscle loss, cardiovascular risk, metabolic health, and frailty until I am blue in the face, and usually… absolutely nothing changes.
But... let's say a grandchild arrives. A trip involving hiking is considered. A spouse or close friend gets sick. Or perhaps someone simply realizes that getting off the floor has become much harder than it used to be.
Suddenly, the same person who “couldn’t find the time” starts walking, lifting weights, and paying more attention to what they eat.
I’ve seen this happen too many times to ignore it. Knowing what is good for us is rarely enough. We usually need a reason that matters to us now.
So look carefully at your own life. What do you still want to be able to do five, ten, or twenty years from now? Who do you want to keep up with? What part of your life would bother you most to lose?
Find that reason.
Then go for the walk. Start there...
My never ending (not implemented) obsession with #startup #healthcare advisory : stay with patients(handhold/educate/help) without interfering with the doctors' jobs and no nexus with anyone. Use tech/AI within your work flow and not promote those. #hIT
Imported models...plugins...what can we expect... It is just the beginning...already out of hand except hope with tech-assisted disruptions and regulations
It is nearly impossible for small hospitals and nursing homes to survive the growing dominance of Mediclaim companies. Insurers consistently bully small providers with arbitrary claim rejections, low disbursements, and refusals to cover complications, all while rubber-stamping massive bills for corporate chains.
Corporate hospitals, insurers, and the IRDAI appear to work hand in glove to systematically dismantle independent small healthcare facilities ( small hospitals and Nursing home )
As small providers are driven out, patients will pay the ultimate price: exorbitant treatment costs and skyrocketing premiums that will soon require EMIs just to keep a basic policy active. Difficult days are ahead for patients .
India is still a volume game. Unless someone cracks that code they can't build anything meaningful. Corollary : the time cycle to be profitable is a bit longer. Top down approaches rarely work.
+1 preparing for the era of abundance will be a prudent thing to do. Knowing about it is the first step.
Varadharajan K retweeted
India, imagine spending 2 years and ₹6 lakh just to get a driving licence.
That was my struggle in Norway. In 2011, I spent around ₹6 lakh. Today, it would probably be more than ₹10 lakh.
When I came here in 2011, I realised quickly that you really need to drive here - snow, mountains, cold weather and long distances.
I started with a neighbour helping me.
But the licence was a serious process: mandatory courses, theory test, safety training and many hours of practice. Your supervisor needed 5+ years of driving experience.
I drove through snow, mountains, tunnels, highways and small roads. Driving schools charged by the hour, and you kept practising until they believed you were ready.
Then came the final test - almost an hour with the driving authority, through traffic, tunnels and mountain roads.
I failed. 😄
Practised for another two months and passed the second time.
Almost 2 years of struggle for one licence.
Looking back, I understand why.
They were not just testing whether I could drive a car. They were testing whether I could safely share the road with other people’s lives.
And this is where I think about India.
Why do we see so much pain from road accidents - injuries, hospital bills, families losing their savings, and lives lost?
Some were just walking on the road.
Some were driving carefully, but an irresponsible driver took their life.
Could part of it be that we simply don’t make people work hard enough to earn the right to drive?
Maybe a licence should not just prove that you can move a car.
It should prove that you can handle a life-threatening responsibility.
What do you think India should change?