Union Health Ministry to launch SAHI, BODH Initiative

The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launches two national initiatives, SAHI and BODH, at the India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam. SAHI provides a national guidance framework for AI adoption in healthcare, while BODH provides a benchmarking platform for evaluating health AI models under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

SAHI (Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India) & BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI):

Dimension	Key Details
SAHI	Provides for a national guidance framework to enable safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive adoption of Artificial Intelligence across India’s healthcare system.
SAHI provides for	Provides for strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment, and monitoring of AI solutions.
SAHI support	Provides for supporting States and institutions in responsible adoption aligned with public health priorities.
BODH	Comprises the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH).
Developed by	Developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority.
Feature	Provides for a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data without sharing underlying datasets.
Under ABDM	Regulated as a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
BODH provides for	Provides for strengthening trust, transparency, and quality assurance in Health AI deployment.