India has built the digital rails for AI-powered healthcare. The hard part starts now
By Chintan Dave
India’s healthcare AI story is entering a more consequential phase. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence can read a medical image, summarize a clinical history, flag an unusual insurance claim or help a doctor make sense of complex information. We increasingly know that it can.
The harder question is whether India can turn these capabilities into a trusted, governed and scalable part of healthcare delivery for more than a billion people.
India does not need AI primarily to replace doctors. It needs AI to multiply scarce healthcare capacity: helping clinicians make better-informed decisions, taking elements of specialist expertise closer to underserved communities, detecting disease earlier, strengthening public-health surveillance and making large government health programmes more efficient.
Unlike a few years ago, much of the digital infrastructure needed to attempt this at population scale is beginning to exist.
The digital foundation is becoming enormous
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