Kanpur: Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda officially launched the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) during the recently held India AI Impact Summit. This initiative, a joint venture between Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and the National Health Authority (NHA), was developed under a MoU. Describing the platform as a cornerstone of privacy-first innovation, the director of the institute prof Manindra Agrawal highlighted BODH as a secure, federated ecosystem where developers can train AI models on-site without accessing raw patient data and returning only refined model weights to ensure total privacy.
This architecture effectively resolves the ‘AI Quality Testing Trilemma’ by simultaneously delivering coverage, openness, and reliability through the strategic use of central private test sets and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission framework.Developed under the guidance of prof Nisheeth Srivastava, the platform empowers regulators to conduct low-cost, third-party testing with statistical confidence while allowing model providers to benchmark their algorithms against real-world datasets for credible validation.Prof Srivastava stated that the BODH platform is expected to replace Randomised Controlled Trials as the default third-party algorithmic auditing tool for health AI models, not only in India but globally.
