Tushar Kamble

Acquisition Fever: Why India’s Tier-2/3 Cities Are the Next Healthcare Goldmine? India’s smaller cities are fast emerging as the next big growth story for healthcare. But what’s fueling this wave of acquisitions — demand, affordability, or untapped potential? Hear it from the experts: Shiraz Bugwadia, Managing Partner, o3 Capital Aditya Kandoi, Founder & CEO, Redcliffe Labs Vikas Dandekar, Editor – Pharma & Healthcare, he Economic Times (Moderator) 📍 Hyatt Regency, New Delhi 👉 Know more: https://lnkd.in/dBuYj84W #ETHealthLeaders #ETHealthcareSummit #HealthcareLeadership #HealthcareInnovation #HealthcareInvestment #Tier2Cities #Tier3Cities

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🏥 First Adani. Now Ambani. India’s healthcare future is being rewritten — not by governments alone, but by its largest business empires. 📌 Adani has announced an AI-first healthcare ecosystem — modular hospitals in Ahmedabad & Mumbai, designed around intelligence, affordability, and scalability. 📌 Reliance, at its AGM 2025, unveiled a 2,000-bed Medical City in Mumbai — complete with AI-enabled diagnostics, robotic systems, and a world-class teaching hospital, alongside a 130-acre green urban space. 🔎 What this signals: Healthcare is no longer just about beds and buildings. It’s about data, AI, ecosystems, and scale. Adani is betting on AI-first hospitals. Ambani is betting on a Medical City model. 💡 The Real Race The question is no longer who builds the first AI hospital. It’s who builds the healthcare brain that India — and the world — will depend on. Because the future of healthcare isn’t just digital. It’s AI-powered, affordable, and sustainable. India is quietly shaping what global healthcare could look like in the 2030s. Two names. Two models. But one clear direction: Healthcare is the next frontier. #Adani #Ambani #FutureOfHealthcare #AIHospitals #MedicalCity #DigitalHealth #IndiaLeads

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One Nation, One Healthtech Stack: The Future of Digital Healthcare in India India is at the cusp of a groundbreaking shift in healthcare delivery. Thanks to the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, we now have over 73 crore ABHA IDs issued—enabling citizens to securely store and transmit their health data. Additionally, more than 5 lakh healthcare professionals are onboard, reinforcing trust and credibility in digital health platforms. But it’s not enough to just digitise records; we must create an interoperable healthtech stack that connects every node of the healthcare ecosystem—clinics, labs, hospitals, and telehealth platforms. Imagine seamless access to a patient’s medical history, diagnostics, and prescriptions, no matter where they receive care. Initiatives like the Unified Health Interface (UHI), which draws from the principles of UPI, are designed to bridge this digital divide, enabling frictionless integration of services across providers. This unified infrastructure promises better diagnosis, improved transparency, and stronger continuity of care. India has already set global benchmarks with digital infrastructure—from Aadhaar to UPI and CoWIN. A healthtech stack built on similar principles can revolutionise public health: enabling informed decision-making, expanding preventive care, and ensuring that technology truly serves every Indian, everywhere. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdtfFRBN #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #ABDM #UnifiedHealthInterface #HealthcareTransformation #ApolloTeleHealth

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In healthcare, each moment of cleaning is a step towards saving lives, protecting trust, and ensuring every patient space is truly safe. This is the strength of ‘disinfection stewardship’, more than just abiding by protocols. CAHO India in collaboration with Diversey-Solenis India organised a boot camp on ‘Disinfection Stewardship’ at Aster Medcity, Kochi on 9th August, 2025. The objective was to empower healthcare professionals to make informed, responsible infection-prevention choices that safeguard patients, curb antimicrobial resistance, and keep all care spaces safe, clean, and trusted. In my talk, I highlighted the importance of having a multidisciplinary infection control team because infection prevention is never the responsibility of one person or one department, but a shared mission that thrives on teamwork. I also shared the inspiring story of Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, a Hungarian-born physician and scientist of German heritage, fondly known as the ‘Saviour of Mothers’. In the mid-1800s he discovered that washing hands between patients could drastically reduce deaths after childbirth. Even when his peers resisted, Dr. Semmelweis persisted and his fight ultimately became the foundation of modern infection prevention. His grit and legacy reminds us that consistent, simple practices can save lives. My sincere thanks to CAHO and Diversey for a boot camp that went beyond training, it was a call-to-action for creating safer healthcare environments.The insights from experts reignited our resolve to make disinfection stewardship safety more than a checklist, turning it into a daily habit and a shared culture. At Aster Medcity, we don’t just clean, we take charge against infections, turning every safe space into a promise to treat you well. #IPConclave2025 #CAHOIndia #AsterMedcity #DiverseySolenisIndia #DisinfectionStewardship #PatientSafety #HealthcareLeadership #QualityInHealthcare

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Met and interviewed Abhay Soi, ace healthcare investor and the force behind Max Healthcare’s rise to Rs 1 lakh crore market cap — now India’s most valuable healthcare company. From turning around struggling hospitals to leading a Rs 5,000 crore expansion, Soi’s journey is nothing short of remarkable. Soi spoke to me about his vision of a pan-India crusade to bridge the country’s healthcare gap. The banker-turned-healthcare entrepreneur opened up about his early days as an outsider in the industry — and how it was his initial failures, not successes, that truly shaped his approach to building and leading in healthcare. https://lnkd.in/dH-g4qZD #AbhaySoi #MaxHealthcare #HealthcareLeader #EconomicTimes

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🚀 The GIMS Ecosystem — Govt. of Uttar Pradesh’s model where ideas meet patients, innovation meets validation, and startups scale with impact. With an ICMR-Intent Clinical Trial Centre serving 2,000+ patients every day and India’s first public hospital–based government company for MedTech incubation, GIMS, Greater Noida is building a single-window ecosystem for healthcare startups: ✅ Clinical Trials ✅ Mentoring ✅ Validation ✅ Funding Pathways ✅ Market Access This is how Uttar Pradesh is positioning itself as a national leader in healthcare innovation. #GIMS #UttarPradesh #HealthcareInnovation #ClinicalTrials #Startups #MedTech

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In Roads Made for a Fortuner, Why Drive a Ferrari? If you’re a CXO, promoter, or director running a hospital in tier 2 or tier 3 India like me, it’s time to rethink your game plan. The healthcare landscape in smaller cities demands smart, ground-up strategies — forget flashy tools you don’t need. Here are three hard truths to live by: 1.Skip expensive training agencies. Jump right in and invest in skilling your people. At our price points, a culture shift is overdue. It’s about nurturing your existing team leaders to demand competence, build capability, and rally around a LAGAAN spirit — no excuses, just grit and growth. 2.Don’t waste bandwidth chasing unproven technology. Unless your hospital is one of the marquee ones (think Apollo, Fortis, Manipal, Narayana) with robust infrastructure and the EBITA to back it, wait till tech innovations are battle-tested by the giants. It might sound old school, but applying beta tech without readiness is a recipe for burned resources and lost focus. 3.Stop splurging on conventional marketing. Channel your resources into patient- and employee-centric activities. The ROI from delivering exceptional patient experience and fostering employee well-being is profound. Research shows happier employees reduce absenteeism and burnout, which directly improves patient satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth — a measurable, sustainable growth engine. We are playing in a different league from those glossy-headlined hospitals. The sooner we embrace this reality, the better off we'll be. Being patient-first and employee-centered is not just ethical — it’s the smartest ROI strategy in tier 2 and tier 3 healthcare. So, if roads in your markets are built for a Fortuner, why bother chasing a Ferrari? Let’s focus on what’s real, what’s ready, and what delivers lasting impact. That’s how you win. Apex Hospitals

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