The Asia Tech Podcast was honored to have Dr. Pinak Shrikhande, Director at HealthQuad, join the show. HealthQuad, India's leading healthcare venture capital fund, partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to nurture and scale up transformative and impactful healthcare businesses in India.

Some of the topics that Dr. Shrikhande covered included:

• His experiences as a practicing critical care physician for almost 20 years
• Dealing with life and death situations every day
• While at Fortis Hospitals, built the first eICUs in India
• Always wanting to make a difference and be at the cutting edge of technology
• Digging deeply into eICUs
• Extracting data remotely and filling the expertise gap with technology
• How COVID created a paradigm change in the way people thought about healthcare delivery
• Some of the challenges of working across national borders
• Raising and deploying the first HealthQuad fund
• HealthQuad's investment thesis

A few other titles we considered for this episode:

1. Try and Tip the Balance Towards Life
2. It’s Kind of DNA-ish
3. One Should Not Die Because of Lack of Quality Care
4. Using Technology As a Bridge to Get Quality Care