The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched two key national initiatives at the India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam for building a robust, responsible, and globally competitive health AI ecosystem. They are
- Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI)
- Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH)
What is SAHI?
- It is a national guidance framework to enable the safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive adoption of Artificial Intelligence across India’s healthcare system.
- Objective: To provide strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment, and monitoring of AI solutions, while supporting States and institutions in responsible adoption aligned with public health priorities.
What is BODH?
- It is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data without sharing underlying datasets.
- Developed by: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority
- As a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, it is designed to strengthen trust, transparency, and quality assurance in Health AI deployment.