A conversation with Eka Care on AI, prevention, and the next era of healthcare

Eka Care invited Dr. Ajay Bakshi for a full-episode conversation on how AI is beginning to shift the centre of gravity in Indian healthcare — away from the hospital episode, toward the longitudinal health record and the preventive relationship.

The conversation covers three interlocking questions:

Why prevention has always been the right answer, and why it has never worked at scale in India — the economics of the hospital business model, the incentive misalignment that follows from DRG-adjacent pricing, and what it would take to change those incentives structurally.

What AI actually changes — not the grand claim of autonomous diagnostics, but the more durable shift: giving the clinician a memory that spans years and a pattern-recognition layer that works at three in the morning. The honest version of AI in healthcare is about unburdering the clinician, not replacing them.

What the next generation of operators needs to prepare for — the board and C-suite skills that become more valuable as AI absorbs more of the operational routine, and the governance questions that no model answers on its own.

The episode was recorded as part of Evolve Talks, a series produced by Eka Care on AI in Indian healthcare.