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Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Artificial Intelligence. Report Outlines Five Key Priorities for Accelerating Responsible AI Adoption in Healthcare
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New Delhi, August 09, 2026:
Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare Shri J. P. Nadda, released a knowledge paper on “AI in MedTech: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Artificial Intelligence” today at the 9th Edition of India Medical Device 2026, organized by the Department of Pharmaceuticals in association with FICCI, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The report highlights the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector, from creating new opportunities to addressing emerging challenges.
Jointly developed by Praxis Global Alliance, in association with FICCI, the knowledge paper examines India’s evolving AI-enabled MedTech landscape and outlines the strategic actions needed to accelerate responsible AI adoption across healthcare. It explores AI’s role in diagnostics, clinical decision support, operational efficiency and medical device innovation, while identifying the regulatory, policy and ecosystem interventions required to enable large- scale adoption. The report while noting that India has already built important foundations
through the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the IndiaAI Mission, SAHI, BODH and the
National Medical Devices Policy, 2023, observes that moving AI solutions from successful pilots to large-scale clinical adoption is a major challenge.
The report notes that this transition requires addressing fragmented health data and limited evidence, developing predictable lifecycle-based regulation for adaptive AI, and creating supportive reimbursement and procurement mechanisms. It says India also has a unique opportunity to leverage its software capabilities, digital public infrastructure, clinical diversity and growing MedTech manufacturing base to become a global leader in the responsible development, manufacturing and deployment of AI-enabled medical technologies.
Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals; Dr.M Srinivas, Member, NITI Aayog; Dr Rajiv Bahl, Secretary, Department of Health Research & Director General, ICMR; Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare; Amardeep Singh Bhatia, Secretary, Department of Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT); Sunil Kumar Barnwal, CEO, National Health Authority; Shri Anant Swarup, Secretary General, FICCI; and senior government officials, industry leaders and stakeholders from the MedTech sector were present on the occasion.
