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By Ramma Shiv Kumar India serves nearly one-fifth of humanity but continues to face significant shortages of healthcare professionals and uneven access to care. India's healthcare system stands at an important intersection. On one side, we have some of the world's strongest technology and digital capabilities. On the other, we continue to face enormous healthcare challenges—uneven access, specialist shortages, affordability pressures, fragmented health data and significant va

Building Responsible AI for India’s Healthcare Ecosystem The biggest risk facing healthcare AI is not that it makes mistakes. The bigger risk is that people stop trusting it. By Ramma Shiv Kumar Artificial Intelligence is moving rapidly into healthcare. It is supporting diagnostics, drug discovery, clinical research, hospital operations, patient engagement and public-health systems. But healthcare is different from many other sectors. An inaccurate recommendation can affect a

How India Can Build AI-Native Healthcare Capabilities Through a New Operating Model By Ramma Shiv Kumar India is no longer merely discussing whether AI belongs in healthcare. The strategic conversation has moved to implementation, capability building and scale. That shift is visible across the ecosystem. India launched the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) at the India AI Impact Sum