Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has launched two pioneering digital health initiatives SAHI (Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, marking a major milestone in India’s journey toward safe, ethical, and evidence-based deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Describing the Summit as both timely and necessary, the Union Minister emphasized that AI does not function in isolation but thrives on strong digital infrastructure and high-quality data.
He noted that India began laying its digital foundations nearly a decade ago with the launch of the Digital India programme in 2015 under the leadership of the Hon’ble Prime Minister. The health sector aligned with this vision through the National Health Policy, 2017, which envisaged a comprehensive,…
