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SAHI & BODH Health AI Initiatives
- 18 Feb 2026
- 2 min read
Recently, the Union Health Minister launched two digital initiatives, Secure AI for Health Initiative (SAHI) and Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH), at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to strengthen India’s health AI ecosystem.
- SAHI (Governance Framework): SAHI functions as a national roadmap and policy framework guiding responsible AI adoption through accountability, privacy protection and citizen-centric safeguards.
- BODH (Validation Platform): BODH provides a structured platform to test, benchmark and validate AI health solutions for performance, safety and real-world readiness before deployment.
- Objective: To ensure AI solutions in healthcare are safe, reliable, evidence-based and people-centric while strengthening public trust.
- Digital Health Backbone: The initiatives build on the vision of the National Health Policy 2017 and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (2020) to create an interoperable and scalable digital health infrastructure.
- Data & Infrastructure: The framework promotes interoperable and consent-based health data systems to ensure security and public trust in digital health technologies.
- Collaboration: It enables coordinated participation of government, academia and industry to integrate AI solutions in healthcare responsibly.
- Impact: AI tools can improve diagnostics, accelerate drug discovery, strengthen clinical decision-making and make healthcare delivery affordable and accessible.
| Read more: India-AI Impact Summit 2026 |
