A Medinn initiative
People of Healthcare.
Connecting with the MVPs of healthcare and MedTech in Kerala.
Connecting with 50 founders, leaders and builders already shaping Kerala’s healthcare ecosystem, to understand what they are building and how we can make healthcare better here.
Featured
People of Healthcare features.
Conversations with the people building healthcare, in their own words.
How do we deliver comprehensive cancer care to the people of Kerala?
Karkinos Healthcare is building distributed cancer care, taking care out of the four walls of the hospital and into the community clinic, with follow-up that is easy enough for patients to actually come back. Dr. Kuriakose on the bottleneck, the bridges that need to be built, and the vision of a comprehensive cancer centre at the heart of a network of community clinics.
Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose, Medical Director, Karkinos Healthcare
A video-laryngoscope costs lakhs. A doctor’s idea brings it to thousands.
Dr. Maanas Jain built UVEAL, an attachment that turns the laryngoscope a hospital already owns into a video-laryngoscope. He on the bottleneck for made-in-India devices, the bridges that need to be built, and what he needs now.
Dr. Maanas Jain, Founder and CTO, Quintubate Pvt. Ltd.
PoH Asks
People of Healthcare have reached out. Can you solve these asks?
From our first submissions, a team of engineers has posted certain asks, shared without names. PoH Allies who can help reply privately, and Medinn makes an introduction only when both sides agree.
Hospitals to host structured usability sessions
Biomedical engineers and nurses giving structured feedback, with no real patients until permissions are confirmed.
A regulatory consultant for the CDSCO licensing route
Medical-device experience, to confirm the classification and route before the design is frozen.
Introductions to CDSCO-licensed manufacturers
For an honest technical review and a straight talk on what a partnership would need.
MedTech leaders to open the right doors
Founders and former procurement heads who know what really decides a purchase.
The ecosystem
Healthcare is much bigger than hospitals.
Kerala’s healthcare ecosystem is diverse, and each participant contributes a different capability. But these worlds are often explored independently. Clinicians are frequently seen only as end users, when they can also be collaborators, product developers, researchers, advisors and builders.
Where it comes from
The conversations have already begun.
People of Healthcare grows out of connecting and learning from the people building healthcare, on stage, in sessions and one to one.
A session with Mr. John Kuriakose, founder of Dentcare Dental Lab
“His journey highlighted the transformative power of resilience, vision, and ethical entrepreneurship.” Moderated by Dr. Sidharth Narayanan.
HealthTech panel, IEDC Summit, NIT Calicut
Panelist on the HealthTech track in October 2024, on why healthcare needs engineers.
The questions
How well do we actually understand this ecosystem?
Who is manufacturing medical devices in Kerala?
Which companies are developing healthcare technologies?
What capabilities do our hospitals and manufacturers possess?
Where are the opportunities for local production and manufacturing?
What skills and talent are missing?
What does it take to move from a clinical observation to research, prototyping, validation, regulatory approval, manufacturing and commercialisation? And how can clinicians take part?
50 conversations, five lenses
More than founder profiles.
Each conversation is a profile of one person. Together, the 50 are meant to build an understanding of the whole ecosystem: its people, capabilities, limitations, opportunities and potential.
People
Who is shaping healthcare in Kerala, and what have they built?
Production
What can Kerala develop, manufacture and produce locally? Where do we depend on external markets?
Talent
What skills and expertise exist? What is missing, and how can we build it?
Innovation
What does the journey from a problem to a commercial healthcare solution actually involve?
Pipelines
What infrastructure, funding, mentorship, partnerships, distribution and regulatory pathways are needed to reach execution?
Who we will speak to
Not only MedTech founders.
- Entrepreneurs and CEOs
- Key opinion leaders
- Hospital founders and administrators
- Medical device manufacturers
- Diagnostics leaders
- Researchers and investors
- Others with an important stake in the industry
Knowledge that clinicians can use.
For doctors to take part meaningfully, they need to understand the industry, know the people operating within it and appreciate how healthcare innovations are brought to life. People of Healthcare exists to make that knowledge accessible to clinicians and medical students.
Why it matters
From knowledge to opportunity.
Knowing who is building what is the first step. When knowledge about an ecosystem becomes accessible, its people can find one another: a medical student can discover a manufacturer, a founder can reach clinical insight, and a hospital can meet the people working on its problems.
This is not a promise that every conversation will lead to a business or a partnership. It is the possibility created when knowledge about an ecosystem becomes more accessible and its participants become better connected.
Take part
Know someone who should be among the 50?
Healthcare becomes stronger when the people who understand its problems are connected to the people who have the capabilities to solve them.
Nominate someone
A founder, leader, manufacturer or clinician-builder in Kerala’s healthcare ecosystem whose work deserves to be understood.
Be part of the 50
If you are building or leading in Kerala healthcare, we would like to hear your story.
Clinicians and students
Follow along to learn the industry and the people in it, and to find ways to contribute.
Partners and institutions
Hospitals, institutes and organisations that want to help map and strengthen the ecosystem.
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Understanding the people, ideas, businesses and technologies shaping healthcare.
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