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