- Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Jagat Prakash Nadda, launched two national AI initiatives in the healthcare sector at the India AI Summit 2026.
- The first initiative is the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI).
- SAHI is designed as a national framework for the adoption of AI in healthcare.
- It promotes the safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive use of AI technologies.
- The framework provides guidelines on governance and regulatory oversight.
- SAHI provides guidance on the deployment and continuous monitoring of AI tools.
- The second initiative is the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH).
- BODH has been developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
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