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February's Town Hall

Decoding India AI Summit Through Digital Health Lens Noise, Signals and Real Opportunities for Hospitals, Startups & Policymakers

Digital Health AI in Healthcare Interoperability Clinical Workflows Patient Experience Virtual Care Health Policy
Dr. Uma Nambiar CEO, IISc Medical School Foundation
Dr. RS Sharma Former CEO, National Health Authority
Cdr. Navneet Bali Executive Director & Group CEO, Clearmedi Healthcare
Dr Sujoy Kar VP & CMIO, Apollo Hospitals
Vivek Rajagopal Group Chief Analytics & AI Officer, Narayana Health
Dr Shibu Vijayan Chief Medical Officer- Global Health, Qure.ai
Dr. Geetha Manjunath Founder and CEO – NIRAMAI AI
Aneesh Chopra Chief Strategy Officer at Arcadia, Former First CTO of the United States
Vishnu Saxena Founder & CEO, Digital Health News & ScaleHealthTech
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Tuesday February 27, 2026 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM IST

A New Conversation for a New Healthcare Landscape

India’s healthcare sector is undergoing a structural transformation. Digital systems are maturing, data ecosystems are evolving, and new models of care are emerging. At the same time, foundational gaps, operational pressure, and rising expectations continue to test the system’s readiness.

The DHN Town Hall Series is created to bring clarity, perspective, and direction to this moment.

Every quarter, we bring together decision-makers, innovators, operators, and strategic leaders who are shaping how healthcare is delivered, scaled, and strengthened in India.

This is a space for real conversations grounded in real experience- not theory, not pitches, not presentations.

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A Cross-Ecosystem View of India’s Digital Health Trajectory

Every session goes deep into the realities driving healthcare transformation

  • How technology is reshaping care delivery
  • Where digital systems are creating value- and where they’re failing
  • What leaders are learning from real deployments
  • How patient expectations, AI adoption, data integrity, security, and operations are evolving
  • What organisational capabilities must strengthen to sustain progress
  • What risks and opportunities the next quarter brings

It is a platform built for professionals who want to understand not just where healthcare is going, but what it will take to get there.

The India AI Summit has placed Artificial Intelligence at the center of India’s national transformation agenda marked by bold visions, large investments, and sweeping announcements. Yet for digital health leaders, a more practical question remains unanswered: What do these AI ambitions actually mean for healthcare delivery, hospital operations, and patient outcomes in India?

Among all the talks to adopt the AI, the reality is majority of Hospitals are still navigating fragmented data, uneven EMR maturity, clinician overload, and importantly absence of IT leadership across most of India’s hospital. This DHN Town Hall convenes hospital leaders, policymakers, founders, and ecosystem builders from India and the US to decode India’s AI moment through a digital health lens. Moving beyond summit speeches, the discussion will separate hype from reality, surface early but meaningful signals of adoption, and identify real, scalable opportunities tailored to India’s healthcare realities.

This will not be a recap of the India AI Summit. It is the translation layer from national AI narratives to on-the-ground digital health execution, adoption and outcome.

Learning Objectives:

  • Making sense of what we heard at the India AI Summit
    1. Understand which AI narratives matter for healthcare and which don’t translate to hospital reality.
  • Recognize why AI feels harder inside India’s healthcare
    1. Learn where hospitals struggle not due to lack of intent, but due to data readiness, workflows, EMR/HIS penetration and IT leadership
  • Learn where AI is quietly working today
    1. Identify practical use cases transforming India’s healthcare delivering value across patient engagement, operations, and revenue workflows.
  • Clarify where to focus next
    1. Get a realistic view of where hospitals, startups, and policymakers should place their bets over the next 12–24 months.
  • Move forward with confidence, not hype
    1. Understand where and how to start AI journey and accelerate progress from pilots to sustainable, scalable impact.

Designed for Depth, Clarity, and Real Outcomes

Opening Perspective

A distilled view of the quarter’s most important shifts in digital health.

Leadership Dialogue

A live discussion with respected voices across healthcare- reflecting operational realities, strategic choices, and lessons learned.

Spotlight Insight

A focused segment on a theme emerging strongly that quarter.

The Quarterly Outlook

Risks to watch, opportunities to leverage, and priorities leaders must focus on.

Closing Synthesis

A concise summary of what must guide the ecosystem in the next 90 days.

Who
Participates?

This platform brings together stakeholders across the healthcare landscape - from those architecting digital systems to those executing on the ground - creating a unified space for insight, alignment, and forward direction.

About Digital Health News (DHN)

The Backbone of HealthTech Intelligence

Transformation begins with the right information—and DHN is where it all starts. As India’s most trusted media voice in digital health, DHN delivers sharp, researched, data-driven, and forward-looking content & information that cuts through the noise and empowers decision-makers across the healthcare ecosystem. From regulatory shifts and AI breakthroughs to startup movements and global healthtech trends, DHN doesn't just report the news—it decodes what it means for India’s healthcare future.

The DHN Town Hall Series is an extension of that mission, a platform that brings together the people building India’s next chapter in health technology.