With reference to the recent digital health initiatives 'SAHI' and 'BODH', consider the following statements:
1. BODH was jointly developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) and the National Health Authority (NHA).
2. The BODH platform mandates hospitals to share raw, unencrypted patient datasets directly with AI developers to train their diagnostic models.
3. SAHI acts as a governance framework designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question

With reference to the recent digital health initiatives 'SAHI' and 'BODH', consider the following statements:
1. BODH was jointly developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) and the National Health Authority (NHA).
2. The BODH platform mandates hospitals to share raw, unencrypted patient datasets directly with AI developers to train their diagnostic models.
3. SAHI acts as a governance framework designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

C) 1 and 3 only — Statement 1 is correct; BODH was co-developed by IIT Kanpur and the NHA. Statement 2 is incorrect; BODH utilizes a privacy-preserving 'federated learning' ecosystem where developers can train AI models on-site without ever accessing the underlying raw patient data. Statement 3 is correct; SAHI provides the national policy framework that leverages the ABDM architecture.

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