India’s Health Minister to launch SAHI, BODH initiatives at India AI Summit 2026 on Feb 17
India’s Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda will on Tuesday launch two national initiatives aimed at strengthening the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare at the India AI Summit being held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, the health ministry said.
Nadda will unveil the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) at the summit on Feb. 17, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.
SAHI has been designed as a national guidance framework to enable the safe, ethical, evidence-based and inclusive adoption of artificial intelligence across India’s healthcare system. The framework provides strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment and monitoring of AI-based solutions, while supporting states and institutions in adopting such technologies in alignment with public health priorities.
BODH, developed by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority, is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that allows rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data without sharing underlying datasets. The platform has been positioned as a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
The ministry said the platform is intended to strengthen trust, transparency and quality assurance in the deployment of AI solutions in healthcare.
Together, SAHI and BODH represent a step in India’s efforts to build a responsible, robust and globally competitive health AI ecosystem, the statement added.
