The interaction
An exchange of perspectives.
Dr. Karan Garg in an interaction with Mr. Kriss Narula.
The exchange considered India’s health-tech environment, emerging healthcare companies and pathways for physician-led virtual-neurology capabilities.
About the participant
Experience in context.
Kriss Narula is a Board Member of Sevaro Health. The interaction explored India’s health-technology environment and care-delivery innovation, connecting an international healthcare perspective with the needs of a changing market.
Bharat Pulse Policy Lens
Digital healthcare: interoperability is not clinical readiness.
Independent Bharat Pulse analysis, not a quotation or a position attributed to the participant.
What must accompany a technology platform before it can support dependable patient care?
Policy in focus
The health ministry states that ABDM health-data exchange requires patient consent and that applications undergo sandbox validation and security audits before integration.
Bharat Pulse assessment
A cross-border healthcare platform needs more than a technically functioning connection. Clinical responsibility, escalation to local care, professional credentials, consent and the continuity of records should be designed together. A successful data exchange is not evidence that a service is clinically appropriate for every patient or authorised in every location.
Bharat Pulse’s assessment is that a credible India-entry strategy should start with a defined care pathway and a clear division of responsibilities between technology provider, clinicians and local institutions. Procurement teams should test auditability, support arrangements and the handling of incomplete information. This creates a more useful basis for discussion than a generic promise of access through technology, while keeping the analysis separate from any claim about Sevaro’s implementation or approval status.
What to watch
Policy sources & scope
Patient consent, application validation and security audits under ABDM; not a clinical-practice licence or approval for a named provider.
Editorial review: 2026-09-18. This is the policy-lens review date, not the meeting date. Source periods are shown above; older frameworks are not presented as new announcements.