When I am asked where artificial intelligence will most change Indian healthcare in the next five years, my answer surprises people. It is not the consultation room. It is not the radiology suite. It is the OPD funnel.
That answer reflects something I have come to believe after two decades of running hospitals across multiple groups and geographies in India. The headline AI story today is clinical. Generative models drafting discharge summaries. Algorithms reading scans. Conversational agents triaging symptoms. These will matter. But they will diffuse slowly, because Indian healthcare runs on a trust gradient that is steeper than most technology forecasts acknowledge. Patients trust their doctor. Doctors trust other doctors. Anything new must earn its place inside that hierarchy before it earns a place in the workflow. Clinical AI is doing that work. It will get there. It will simply take longer than the conference circuit suggests.
By Super Admin
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July
17, 2026
