In development · India

Built for Indian doctors, from the ground up.

PocketMed is building something new, powered by AI, for verified doctors across India. Free, always, for practising physicians.

A smiling doctor reassuring a patient
Our purpose

Why PocketMed exists.

Our mission

To help India's doctors spend less time searching and more time deciding, by putting technology to work in service of their judgment, not in place of it.

Doctors in India carry more patients per day than most health systems ask of them, and that pressure shows up in small, constant ways: less time to double-check something, less time to look anything up, more decisions made on recall. It's a problem of time and attention before it's a problem of technology.

Where AI actually fits into healthcare today

Artificial intelligence has already earned a real place in healthcare, in medical imaging, in drug discovery, in administrative work that used to consume a clinician's time. We think there's a real role for it in supporting doctors more broadly too, held to a standard that reflects how much is actually at stake in a clinical decision. What that looks like in practice is something we're still building, and not something we're ready to describe in detail yet.

PocketMed exists to help close the gap between how much medical knowledge exists and how much of it actually reaches a doctor when it matters. The clinical judgment stays with the doctor, always. Our job is to make sure that what we eventually bring them is something they can trust.

Three doctors reviewing a patient scan together

Evidence over guesswork

What reaches a doctor should be something they can trust, not just something that sounds right.

The doctor stays the authority

Technology here is built to support clinical judgment, never to replace it.

Free for the people who use it

A verified doctor should never have to pay to check something they already have the right to know.

Built for Indian practice

Designed around how care is actually delivered in India, not adapted afterward from somewhere else.

Perspectives

What we're reading and thinking about

Five short notes on the field we're building in.

01

Where AI genuinely has the edge

Scanning huge volumes of information and spotting patterns, fast, every single time. No person, however experienced, can keep pace with how much new medical evidence is published each year. That's the real advantage, and it's worth being precise about it rather than overselling it.

02

India's health-data infrastructure is already being built

The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has issued health IDs and built a national registry of facilities and practitioners. Most doctors haven't noticed it yet, but whatever gets built on top of it next will be shaped by decisions being made right now.

03

One doctor, too many patients, too little time

India has far fewer doctors per patient than the WHO recommends, and the gap is widest in exactly the settings with the least support. Time, more than knowledge, is often the scarcest thing in the room.

04

A shift bigger than any one product

AI already reads scans alongside radiologists, speeds up drug discovery, and automates paperwork that used to eat into clinical time. Healthcare's AI moment didn't start with chat interfaces, it's been building for years.

05

Judgment and accountability don't scale like software

A model can summarize evidence, but it can't sit with a frightened patient, weigh what a family can afford, or be accountable for the decision made. Those parts of medicine aren't going anywhere.

What we're building

Something new for Indian doctors, in development.

We're building PocketMed for verified doctors across India. What it is, how it works, and when it launches, we're keeping to ourselves for now. Early-access sign-ups will hear first, ahead of any public announcement.

Clinicians reviewing a scan together
Why India, specifically

Built here, not adapted from somewhere else. Most clinical reference tools are built for other health systems and priced for other economies, then patched for India afterward. PocketMed starts from Indian clinical practice and Indian prescribing realities as the first design constraint, not a later fix, and stays free for doctors because the doctor is not who pays for it.

For doctors

Built for verified practising physicians.

PocketMed is currently in development. Verified doctors will be first to get access when it launches.

Will it be free?

Yes, always, for verified practising doctors.

Who can access it?

Practising physicians who can verify their medical registration.

What happens to my data?

We're publishing our data-handling commitments in full before launch, not as a footnote after it.

When does it launch?

We're not committing to a public date yet. Early-access sign-ups hear first, ahead of any public announcement.

Get early access

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We'll write to you before anyone else hears PocketMed is ready.

Our team

Who's building this.

Rajdeep Das
Rajdeep Das Founder & CEO

30+ years scaling healthcare businesses across India, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Russia. Most recently CEO & MD, Peters Surgical India; earlier at 3M, B. Braun, and Stryker.

Akshaya Kumar Shukla
Akshaya Kumar Shukla Co-Founder & MD

23 years in the Indian Armed Forces' Technical Corps, leading 500-strong teams across multi-site operations. Brings that discipline of execution to running PocketMed day to day.

Advisors
Manas Shukla
Manas Shukla Group Financial Officer

Chartered Accountant; 15+ years in cross-border finance and fundraising.

Rajesh Huddar
Rajesh Huddar Healthcare & Cyber Governance

Executive Director, PwC; digital trust and healthcare technology governance.

Col (Dr) Nitesh Agrawal
Col (Dr) Nitesh Agrawal (Retd.) Healthcare & Clinical Practice

Anaesthesiologist and critical care specialist; 23 years, Indian Army Medical Corps.

Priyasma Bhoumik
Priyasma Bhoumik Healthcare & AI Strategy

PhD, Bioinformatics; Harvard Medical School and ETH Zurich.

Contact

Get in touch.

Hospitals, medical associations, and pharma partners are welcome to reach out directly.

admin.pocketmedindia@gmail.com
Rajdeep.das@pocketmed.in
akshaya.shukla@pocketmed.in