Why is it in the news?
→ Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare to launch SAHI and BODH at India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam. Initiatives aim to promote safe and ethical AI adoption in healthcare.
Category: S&T
Important Points
- SAHI stands for Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India.
- It is a national guidance framework for safe, ethical, evidence-based and inclusive AI adoption in healthcare.
- Provides strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment and monitoring.
- Supports States and institutions in responsible AI adoption aligned with public health priorities.
- BODH stands for Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI.
- Developed by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with National Health Authority.
- Privacy-preserving benchmarking platform for evaluating AI models using real-world health data.
- Enables evaluation without sharing underlying datasets.
- It is a digital public good under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
- Designed to strengthen trust, transparency and quality assurance in Health AI deployment.