Here are my complete notes from India Health Exhibition 2026, lightly edited and organised for readability.

As I said in my earlier post, one thing was hard to miss: the AI stalls — running on a fraction of the booth space of the big device companies — pulled bigger crowds than anyone selling hardware alone. And the interest didn’t taper on day three, when everyone expects the floor to empty out.

A few things I took away:

1. Hospitals have moved through three eras of differentiation — infrastructure, then volume, now patient experience. AI’s biggest near-term use case sits inside that third era, not as a headline feature bolted onto a pitch. Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta laid out a 5-layer AI maturity model — talks, thinks, acts, creates, runs — with a pointed label running through it: “Augments Now & Replaces Later.” Whether AI hits that timeline is the real debate. As a way to place a given tool on the curve, it’s a genuinely useful one.
2. Tier 2/3 cities carry the more acute need, and the money is starting to follow — PE offering patient capital instead of debt, and Ayushman Bharat quietly becoming the majority revenue source in cities like Gwalior and Nanded.

Swipe through for the full notes: the talks, the quotes, the AI maturity pyramid, and the funding data behind that tier 2/3 shift.