NXT Health is The Bridge Between Innovation and Patients.
Founded by Dr Smita Karpate, MD — physician, serial entrepreneur, and healthcare media founder — NXT Health connects global healthcare companies, MedTech startups, clinicians, investors, and innovators to accelerate health solutions that reach patients faster.
We feature:
• Indian and global healthcare innovators
• Experts in clinical validation, regulatory affairs, and market access
• AI, digital health, and emerging medical technologies
• Incubators, hospitals, pharma, and ecosystem builders
• Founder stories and investment insights from India and emerging markets
Whether you are building a healthcare startup, advising innovators, or investing in the next wave of healthcare — NXT Health is your platform.
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India's doctor-to-patient ratio has been stuck at roughly 1:900 for decades, and tertiary care remains out of reach for over half the country.
Dr Bhaskar Rajkumar led health initiatives at IISc's ARTPARK, and now serves as CEO of the Centre of Excellence in Health Tech and MedTech, Karnataka, speaks with Dr Smita Karpate, MD, about how AI is being used to close this gap- from an app that screens for oral cancer using just a phone photo to a platform that predicts dengue outbreaks four weeks in advance.
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India imports nearly 80% of its medical devices, largely because the country never built the manufacturing infrastructure to compete.
Chirag Agrawal, Co-founder of Lenek Technologies, spent three years building a handheld X-ray device entirely in India, from the electronics to the AI, working out of IIT Kanpur.
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India built its eldercare model on one assumption: that someone would always be home.
That assumption is breaking. 26.7% of urban elders in India now live alone, and most founders building in this space think "senior housing" first.
The real gap may be something else entirely.
What's the biggest unmet need in eldercare?
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Not every good idea gets funded, even when it's solving a real problem.
Dr. Anuj Gupta, Healthcare Transformation and Public Health Policy Expert with the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia, speaks with Dr. Smita Karpate, MD, about a venture he built in 2015 that struggled to raise money and what happened four years later that changed everything.
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A patient walks into a rural primary health center with what looks like a normal cough.
Without AI, that is exactly what gets treated. Medicine for a cold, case closed. Except the patient has TB.
Chirag Agrawal, Co-founder of Lenek Technologies, built an X-ray device that catches this gap. It runs on battery, fits in a bag, and gives an AI screening report on the spot, without a radiologist or a radiology room.
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Most AI models in healthcare look impressive in a lab. They fail in the real world.
Not because the technology is wrong, but because the data they were trained on doesn't reflect the patients they're deployed on.
Dr. Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Dr. Akash Parvatikar, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Biobase, about what it actually takes to build clinical AI that pathologists trust and use.
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An Apple Watch counting your steps needs no approval. The same watch detecting an irregular heartbeat needed FDA clearance.
That is the line every AI medical device founder has to understand before writing a single line of code. Get it wrong, and years of work can be built on the wrong regulatory strategy.
Dr. Arjun Lakshmana Balaji, MBBS, MPH, has led regulatory submissions for over 70 medical devices under FDA, EU MDR, MHRA, and PMDA frameworks. He currently leads AI clinical, product, and design strategy at Olympus Medical Systems India.
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Only 5 to 10% of pathology labs in the US have gone digital. In India, it's just a handful of hospitals.
In this episode, Dr. Akash Parvatikar, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Biobase, speaks with Dr. Smita Karpate, MD, about what digital pathology actually involves, why adoption has been so slow, and what AI can and cannot do for cancer diagnosis today.
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A majority of Parkinson's patients experience at least one fall a year, and many result in fractures.
Amey Desai, Founder and CEO of Lifespark Technologies, built Walk, a wearable muscle stimulator, and Pathfinder, a companion app, to help patients manage fall risk from home.
In this episode of NXT Health, Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Amey Desai about how the technology works and what it takes to build medical devices for chronic neurological conditions in India.
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#Parkinsons #MedTech #NXTHealth
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Ms. Roswitha Verwer, CEO & Founder, and Dr. Muskaan Bhan, MD, Clinical Co-Founder of Yon E Health, explain the journey of building a FemTech medical device from concept to clinical validation and the structural gap in how healthcare innovation gets funded when the investor room doesn't understand the problem.
One point stood out: "We're back to sixth grade explaining what a vagina is."
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Have you seen this knowledge gap in healthcare investing?
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