Both SAHI and BODH initiatives mark a significant step in India’s journey towards building a robust, responsible, and globally competitive health AI ecosystem.

Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI)  

• It is the national framework to guide the responsible integration of AI into India’s health system.
• Vision: To enable the safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive adoption of AI across India’s healthcare system.
• It leverages digital public infrastructure to expand access, improve outcomes, and establish India as a global leader in responsible healthcare AI.
• It supports ecosystem stakeholders by providing shared principles, strategic direction, etc.

About Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH)initiative

• Developed by: IIT Kanpur in collaboration with National Health Authority (NHA).
• Purpose: It is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data without sharing underlying datasets.
• It has been positioned as a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.