SAHI AND BODH INITIATIVES

NEWS: Launched at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to promote safe and responsible use of AI in healthcare.

ABOUT

• SAHI (Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India)
• BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI)
• Aimà To create a safe, transparent, accountable, and evidence-based AI ecosystem in India’s healthcare system.
• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

SAHI

• Roadmap for the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare.
• Policy compass guiding ethical, transparent, and people-centric use of AI technologies in the health sector.
• Integrate AI tools-à That safeguards data privacy and supports national healthcare priorities.
• Mandates consent-based data use, transparency in algorithms, and accountability mechanisms
• Facilitates cooperation among government bodies, academic institutions etc

BODH

• A national benchmarking platformà to evaluate and validate AI solutions in healthcare before large-scale deployment.
• Developed by IIT Kanpur + the National Health Authority
• Systematically test health AI tools for accuracy, safety, and clinical robustness
• Evaluates AI systems using diverse, anonymized real-world health datasets
• Establishes national benchmarking norms to create uniform quality standards for health AI systems.