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The Clinical Validation Gap: Why 80% of Healthcare AI Projects Die Before Production | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 25, 2026 5-7 min read

The Clinical Validation Gap: Why 80% of Healthcare AI Projects Die Before Production | Dr. Daya Shankar

Most healthcare AI dies in the valley between research and deployment. Not because the AI is bad. Because clinical validation is brutally hard. Here's...

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VaidyaAI vs Presco vs Eka.Care: Feature Comparison for Indian Clinic Owners | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 25, 2026 Healthcare AI

VaidyaAI vs Presco vs Eka.Care: Feature Comparison for Indian Clinic Owners | Dr. Daya Shankar

Comprehensive comparison of India's top clinic management platforms. Feature-by-feature analysis, pricing breakdown, and real ROI calculations. Which ...

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Why Tier 2/3 City Clinics Are the Real Healthcare AI Market (Not Metro Hospitals) | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 24, 2026 Healthcare AI

Why Tier 2/3 City Clinics Are the Real Healthcare AI Market (Not Metro Hospitals) | Dr. Daya Shankar

Everyone's chasing Apollo and Fortis. Meanwhile, 500,000 doctors in smaller cities have zero AI tools, unlimited budget constraints, and massive probl...

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Session Management & CSRF Protection in PHP Healthcare Applications | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 23, 2026 Healthcare AI

Session Management & CSRF Protection in PHP Healthcare Applications | Dr. Daya Shankar

How VaidyaAI implements military-grade session security and CSRF protection protecting 1,100+ patient prescriptions. Deep dive into attack prevention,...

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Handling Handwritten Prescriptions: OCR Pipeline with 70-85% Accuracy | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 22, 2026 Healthcare AI

Handling Handwritten Prescriptions: OCR Pipeline with 70-85% Accuracy | Dr. Daya Shankar

How VaidyaAI uses Claude API to extract text from handwritten prescriptions. Deep dive into image preprocessing, OCR pipeline, error handling, and ach...

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20 Hours Per Week: How I Built Production Healthcare Software While Running a School | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 21, 2026 Healthcare AI

20 Hours Per Week: How I Built Production Healthcare Software While Running a School | Dr. Daya Shankar

The untold story of building VaidyaAI while managing 500+ students as Dean of Sciences. Here's how I carved out 20 hours per week and shipped producti...

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How VaidyaAI Reduced Prescription Writing Time from 15 Minutes to 3 Minutes | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 21, 2026 Healthcare AI

How VaidyaAI Reduced Prescription Writing Time from 15 Minutes to 3 Minutes | Dr. Daya Shankar

Real data from Care and Cure Medical Facility, Woxsen University. 1,100+ prescriptions analyzed. 500+ patients served. Here's exactly how AI-powered p...

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PostgreSQL vs MySQL for Multi-Tenant Healthcare: Performance Benchmarks at Scale | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 17, 2026 Healthcare AI

PostgreSQL vs MySQL for Multi-Tenant Healthcare: Performance Benchmarks at Scale | Dr. Daya Shankar

Real production data from 1,100+ prescriptions, 500+ patients, and multiple clinic deployments. Which database architecture actually wins for HIPAA-eq...

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The ₹2,000 Crore Prescription Management Opportunity Indian Startups Are Missing | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 16, 2026 Healthcare AI

The ₹2,000 Crore Prescription Management Opportunity Indian Startups Are Missing | Dr. Daya Shankar

500,000 doctors. 26 paying customers needed. The math behind India's biggest healthcare AI opportunity that's hiding in plain sight....

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From Supercritical Water Reactors to Saving Lives: My Accidental Journey into Healthcare AI | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 15, 2026 Healthcare AI

From Supercritical Water Reactors to Saving Lives: My Accidental Journey into Healthcare AI | Dr. Daya Shankar

My accidental journey into healthcare AI—and why a nuclear engineer ended up building better medical diagnostics than most doctors...

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95% of Healthcare AI Startups Will Fail—Because They're Not Run by Engineers | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 14, 2026 Healthcare AI

95% of Healthcare AI Startups Will Fail—Because They're Not Run by Engineers | Dr. Daya Shankar

Stanford MDs build 80% accurate models. IIT engineers build 99.7% systems. The difference? We know physics....

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks: The Secret Weapon Healthcare AI is Ignoring | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 13, 2026 Healthcare AI

Physics-Informed Neural Networks: The Secret Weapon Healthcare AI is Ignoring | Dr. Daya Shankar

Every ML engineer uses gradient descent. Elite engineers use Navier-Stokes equations. Here's why....

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1,100 Prescriptions Later: What Really Happens When You Deploy AI in a Real Clinic | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 12, 2026 Healthcare AI

1,100 Prescriptions Later: What Really Happens When You Deploy AI in a Real Clinic | Dr. Daya Shankar

Every guru talks about healthcare AI. I've generated 1,100 actual prescriptions. Here's what nobody tells you....

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Why Your Hospital's AI Needs Nuclear-Grade Validation | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 11, 2026 Healthcare AI

Why Your Hospital's AI Needs Nuclear-Grade Validation | Dr. Daya Shankar

Last month, a leading healthcare AI company announced their diagnostic system achieved "85% accuracy."...

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Real-Time Drug Interaction Detection: Preventing Medical Errors with AI | Dr. Daya Shankar
Dec 31, 2025 Healthcare AI

Real-Time Drug Interaction Detection: Preventing Medical Errors with AI | Dr. Daya Shankar

How computational intelligence checks 200,000+ drug combinations in milliseconds—protecting patients and doctors from prescription errors...

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AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support: Transforming Healthcare in India | Dr. Daya Shankar
Dec 30, 2025 Healthcare AI

AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support: Transforming Healthcare in India | Dr. Daya Shankar

When colleagues at IIT Guwahati heard I was transitioning from nuclear thermal hydraulics to healthcare AI, their reactions ranged from surprise to sk...

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Clinical Decision Support: The Missing 40% of Healthcare Efficiency | Dr. Daya Shankar
Dec 30, 2025 Healthcare AI

Clinical Decision Support: The Missing 40% of Healthcare Efficiency | Dr. Daya Shankar

Last Tuesday, I observed something remarkable in our university clinic: Dr. Reddy spent 23 minutes searching for a patient's previous prescription. No...

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Solving India's 1:1,457 Doctor-Patient Ratio with AI | Dr. Daya Shankar
Dec 30, 2025 Healthcare AI

Solving India's 1:1,457 Doctor-Patient Ratio with AI | Dr. Daya Shankar

Three months ago, I stood in our university clinic at Woxsen watching Dr. Reddy examine his 47th patient of the day. It was 2:30 PM. He had 28 more ap...

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Computational Fluid Dynamics Principles Applied to Medical Diagnostics | Dr. Daya Shankar
Oct 22, 2025 Healthcare AI

Computational Fluid Dynamics Principles Applied to Medical Diagnostics | Dr. Daya Shankar

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Physics-First Thinking: Why Your Healthcare AI Fails Without First Principles | Dr. Daya Shankar
Oct 22, 2025 Healthcare AI

Physics-First Thinking: Why Your Healthcare AI Fails Without First Principles | Dr. Daya Shankar

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Building 99.2% Accurate Handwritten Medical OCR: Deep Learning Architecture & Image Processing Pipeline
Oct 16, 2025 Healthcare AI

Building 99.2% Accurate Handwritten Medical OCR: Deep Learning Architecture & Image Processing Pipeline

Deep Learning Architecture & Image Processing Pipeline for Healthcare Innovation...

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🚀 Nuclear Engineering Precision: 99.7% Healthcare AI Diagnostic Accuracy
Oct 16, 2025 Healthcare AI

🚀 Nuclear Engineering Precision: 99.7% Healthcare AI Diagnostic Accuracy

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Care & Cure: Revolutionary AI-Powered Healthcare Management Platform
Sep 08, 2025 Healthcare AI

Care & Cure: Revolutionary AI-Powered Healthcare Management Platform

Revolutionary AI-Powered Healthcare Management Ecosystem...

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AI Differential Diagnosis Systems: From 70% Error Rate to 85% Accuracy | Dr. Daya Shankar
Jan 02, 2025 Healthcare AI

AI Differential Diagnosis Systems: From 70% Error Rate to 85% Accuracy | Dr. Daya Shankar

When my nuclear reactor safety team at IIT Guwahati presented our thermal-hydraulic stability analysis, a senior engineer asked me a question that wou...

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