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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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, AI Scientist and PathologyMap Product Manager at HistoWiz, 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."
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/e8MUmFyIbAc?si=o8-tr...
Have you seen this knowledge gap in healthcare investing?
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Roswitha Verwer walked into an investor meeting to pitch a medical device that measures vaginal pH in real time.
The first question she got was: "What is vaginal pH?"
75% of women worldwide experience vaginal pH imbalance that can affect fertility, yet real-time data to measure it barely exists. Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Roswitha Verwer and Dr Muskaan Bhan, MD, of Yon E Health, on what it actually takes to raise funding in femtech.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/e8MUmFyIbAc?si=UPwyN...
#FemTech #WomensHealth #NXTHealth
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The West builds AI healthcare products because doctors are running out of time. India builds them because millions of patients are losing access.
These are fundamentally different problems, and most AI medical device startups in India are still building for the wrong one.
Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Dr Arjun Lakshmana Balaji, MBBS, MPH, about what it actually takes to build AI medical devices for India and global markets.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/cpPCtWwMzsM?si=RkECh...
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Most supplement companies in India are marketing businesses positioned as health brands.
They source a trending ingredient, find a PubMed study, put it on the label, and call it science-backed. The clinical reality is different.
Dr. Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Rashi Mathur, Co-founder of VitaOne Supplements, on why most supplement founders build the product first and find the clinical evidence later, and why that order is backwards.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/KSt5Z-twJpo?si=VduJG...
#Nutraceuticals #FunctionalMedicine #NXTHealth
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Chinese and Korean medical device makers are not winning because of better technology. They are winning because of volume. Volume is what brings the price down.
India has the quality already. Precision manufacturing in automobiles and defence proves that. What India has not built yet is the scale.
Chirag Agrawal, Co-founder of Lenek Technologies, is building an X-ray device entirely in India to close that gap.
Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/ogaoSMSpCWE?si=8droq...
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Most AI medical device startups build the product first. They discover the regulatory requirements later. By the time they do, the decisions that matter are already locked in, and they cannot be undone.
Dr Arjun Lakshmana Balaji, MBBS, MPH, has over a decade of experience leading regulatory submissions for over 70 medical devices under MDD, MDR, and NMPA frameworks, with hands-on regulatory experience across FDA, EU MDR, MHRA, and PMDA pathways. He now serves as a Global Senior Clinical Expert at Olympus Medical Systems India.
In this episode, Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Dr Arjun Lakshmana Balaji about what it actually takes to move an AI SaMD from concept to global markets.
The episode drops Wednesday. Subscribe so you don't miss it: @NXTHealth
#AISaMD #MedTechIndia #RegulatoryAffairs #NXTHealth
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Most VCs want to see revenue before they write a cheque. India's government is doing the opposite.
At ARTPARK, IISc, startups get funded before they are startups. No revenue, no product, sometimes not even a company. Just an idea solving a real problem. Funding is committed at that stage, along with lab space, equipment, and mentors from the country's top institutions.
Most health tech founders in India have no idea this exists.
Dr Bhaskar Rajakumar, MD, has spent his career building this ecosystem: health AI at IISc's ARTPARK, backing early-stage startups solving public health problems, and now leading Karnataka's Centre of Excellence in Health Tech and MedTech.
In this episode, Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Dr Bhaskar Rajakumar, MD, about what it will actually take to build AI healthcare for India.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/sNi3siMDZ4w?si=LPh6l...
#AIinHealthcare #HealthTechIndia #StartupIndia #DigitalHealth #NXTHealth
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India has one of the highest diabetes burdens in the world. Yet most AI tools screening for diabetic complications in India were trained on images of Caucasian patients.
The technology works. The data behind it does not reflect the patients it is supposed to serve.
The real gap is not adoption, infrastructure, or funding. It is the data.
Dr Bhaskar Rajakumar, MD, has spent his career closing this gap: building gold-standard Indian datasets at IISc's ARTPARK, supporting AI startups solving real public health problems, and now leading Karnataka's Centre of Excellence in Health Tech and MedTech.
In this episode, Dr Smita Karpate, MD, speaks with Dr Bhaskar Rajakumar, MD, about what it will actually take to build AI healthcare for India.
The episode drops tomorrow. Subscribe so you don't miss it: youtube.com/@NXTHealth
#AIinHealthcare #HealthTechIndia #DigitalHealth #NXTHealth
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