Why in the news?: Union Minister of Health and Family launched the SAHI and BODH Initiatives to Strengthen Responsible Health AI Ecosystem at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

SAHI (Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India)

• A national framework to guide the safe, ethical, transparent, and people-centric use of AI in the healthcare sector – promoting secure, interoperable, and trustworthy AI solutions.
• It is a governance framework and national roadmap for responsible AI adoption in health.
• The platform will serve as a knowledge-sharing and governance hub, promoting best practices in health AI development and implementation.
• It will provide strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment, and monitoring of AI health solutions.

BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI)

• A benchmarking platform developed by the Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
• It will enable systematic evaluation of AI models using diverse, anonymized real-world health datasets.
• Assesses AI systems for performance, reliability, bias, and real-world readiness before large-scale use.
• Designed as a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission to strengthen trust, transparency, and quality of AI in healthcare.

Source: The Hindu