India: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI

On 17 February 2026, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) (BODH). The initiative introduces a testing requirement for validating AI models used in the healthcare sector. BODH establishes a mechanism to evaluate AI solutions using diverse, anonymised real-world health datasets to assess their performance, robustness, bias, and generalisability. The platform aims to institutionalise benchmarking standards to ensure that AI systems are reliable and clinically relevant before their deployment at a population scale.