Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda will launch two major national initiatives — the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) — at the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi tomorrow.
SAHI is a national guidance framework designed to support the safe, ethical, evidence-based and inclusive adoption of artificial intelligence across India’s healthcare system. It provides strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment and monitoring of AI solutions, helping states and institutions adopt AI responsibly in line with public health priorities.
BODH, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority, is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse real-world health data — all without exposing the underlying datasets. As a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, BODH aims to enhance trust, transparency and quality assurance in health AI deployment.
Taken together, SAHI and BODH mark a significant milestone in India’s efforts to build a robust, responsible and globally competitive health AI ecosystem and strengthen the role of AI in advancing public health outcomes.
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