Your Doctor Is Uploading Your X-Rays Into ChatGPT | Ft. Practo Co-Founder

Practo started in 2008 in Bangalore. It is a 500-person healthtech company operating across India, the UAE and the US, and its co-founder has a blunt warning about how patients and doctors are now using AI. In this episode, Merin Susan John sits down with Abhinav Lal, Co-Founder of Practo, to explore the widespread use of large language models in healthcare and the potential risks of entering personal health queries into these systems. The discussion highlights the significant doctor shortage in European countries, identifying it as a primary challenge facing the medical profession. This video examines the future of medicine and the evolving healthcare system, considering how AI technology is shaping patient care and medical research. Should you be putting your health queries into an LLM that is built to agree with everything you say? What happens when your ophthalmologist uploads your X-rays, name and age into ChatGPT? And if 60% of Practo's code is already AI-generated, what does that mean for the engineers who write the rest? CHAPTERS 0:00 - The dangerous question: AI in healthcare 0:43 - Why healthcare runs on information asymmetry 3:41 - Doctors are uploading your X-rays into ChatGPT 4:38 - Diagnosis is probabilistic, not deterministic 6:19 - India's looming doctor-shortage crisis 9:42 - Going global: US and UAE expansion 11:56- 100 million dollar GMV in the US 15:12 - Competing with Reliance and Adani 22:08 - Hiring in the AI layoff era 24:14 - 109 companies founded by ex-Practo staff 31:05 - 60% of our code is AI-generated 31:44 - Validating AI when lives are at stake 34:23 - How Practo guards 15 years of medical data #Practo #AbhinavLal #HealthcareAI #AIinHealthcare #ChatGPT #IndianStartups #HealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #DoctorShortage #AINews #AIMNetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 ABOUT TECH TALKS Tech Talks by AIM features in-depth conversations with the founders, engineers, and product leaders building India's most consequential technology companies. #Practo #HealthTech #AIInHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation #AIDiagnostics #StartupIndia #TechTalks #DigitalHealth #StartupStory ✅ Cypher 2026: Join 5,000+ AI leaders. Book now → https://cypher.analyticsindiamag.com/... ✅ Chess League: Test your skills → https://chess.analyticsindiamag.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👋 ABOUT AIM NETWORK AIM Network is India's leading voice on the intersection of AI, Technology, and Business. We bring you sharp analysis, breaking news, and original perspectives on everything from Generative AI breakthroughs to geopolitical market shifts. 🔔 Subscribe for daily insights:    / @aimmediahouse   📺 WATCH OUR POPULAR SERIES: Front Page (Daily Tech News):    • Front Page   Tech Talks (Podcast):    • Tech Talk   -Simulated Reality (Podcast) -    • Simulated Reality Podcast   📰 STAY UPDATED: Website: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ LinkedIn:   / analytics-india-magazine   Twitter/X: https://x.com/Analyticsindiam Instagram:   / aim.media.house   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------