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The Health Stack

The Health Stack

By: Innovaccer
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The Health Stack is a podcast by Innovaccer featuring honest, unscripted one-on-one conversations with the leaders driving change in GCC healthcare. Hosted from the region, each episode dives into leadership, digital transformation, strategy, and the future of healthcare delivery - surfacing the kind of candid, high-value thinking that usually never leaves the room it happens in. Built for healthcare executives, professionals, students, and anyone curious about where health technology in the Gulf is headed, The Health Stack is fully open and educational, with new episodes released as video conversations on YouTube and shared across LinkedIn.

The Health Stack is hosted by Shubham Mishra. Shubham leads marketing for Innovaccer across the GCC, at the intersection of data, AI, and health system transformation. Years inside the regional ecosystem gave him a clear view: the leaders building AI strategies and redesigning care at scale carry insights the broader community rarely gets access to.

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  • How I Think About Healthcare Strategy ft. Umang Jain

    How I Think About Healthcare Strategy ft. Umang Jain
    Jul 7 2026

    Umang Jain never planned on healthcare. He came out of an MBA in international business, moved through pharma and biotech, and landed in the UAE running strategy for NMC Healthcare, one of the region’s largest integrated providers with more than 70 facilities.

    In the first episode of The Health Stack, he and Shubham Mishra get past the usual talking points.

    Umang argues that a strategy office earns its place only when it reaches implementation and owns outcomes, not when it produces plans for someone else to execute. He explains why most digital health initiatives fail on generic objectives and diffuse ownership rather than on the technology itself, and why he sees the region’s fragmented data as a systems problem rather than an IT or clinical one.

    Then the harder questions. UAE insurance tariffs have stayed flat while staffing, pharmaceutical, and equipment costs climb, squeezing margins and pushing standalone hospitals toward consolidation. Is that consolidation a solution or just borrowed time? And can the GCC reach outcome-based care without repeating the slow, expensive transition mature markets went through?

    Umang’s answers are measured, specific, and grounded in eight years of experience.

    Listen to the full episode now!
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