A Conversation with Ritesh Patel
On this special LIVE from HIMSS 2026 Gil was joined on the conference floor by Ritesh Patel, Chief Growth Officer at Doceree, and one of health technology’s most respected global advisors. Recording amid the buzz of 30,000 attendees in Las Vegas, the two explore the forces reshaping healthcare: AI’s rapid shift from clinical promise to operational reality, the collapse of traditional medical publishing, pharma’s untapped content assets, and why the world’s most important digital health laboratories may be in India, Rwanda, and Ghana rather than San Francisco or Boston. With his signature blend of irreverence and rigor, Ritesh offers executives, innovators, and investors a lucid map of where healthcare technology is headed and what leaders can no longer afford to ignore.
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Episode Takeaways
- Healthcare has entered its JP Morgan moment. HIMSS 2026 is where real decisions are made, pilots become deployments, and theoretical innovation meets institutional capital.
- Micro-creators with deep domain expertise are emerging as a powerful force in medical information, competing with legacy academic publishers.
- Pharma’s data fragmentation problem, one brand, ten disconnected databases, is its biggest barrier to AI-driven commercial transformation.
- The direct-to-consumer pharma model faces structural risks from consumer protection regulations and fulfillment complexities that brands underestimate.
- Big tech, Google Cloud, Microsoft, AWS, are already de facto health companies, incubating the ecosystem while anchoring it to their infrastructure.
- Watch India: its fee-for-service, payer-free model forces rapid, low-cost innovation that could redefine global health delivery within a decade.
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Join digital health advocate and author Gil Bashe, on Health Unabashed, as he discusses the power of collaboration and innovation in improving care across the health ecosystem. Sharing stories and insights from a global perspective, Gil looks at the companies and people who are making a difference and offers his opinions on how to connect the dots to transform the industry for good.
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The Hosts
Gil Bashe
Managing Partner, Chair Global Health, FINN Partners
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Gregg Masters
Director, Health Innovation Media
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