 "From healthcare to road safety: How India is introducing AI into everyday living")
India is hosting the AI Impact Summit 2026 at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. As the artificial intelligence (AI) race intensifies, the summit offers the Central government a global stage to showcase its capabilities and position the country as a leading player in the emerging technology.
India has been making strides in AI by developing tools for various sectors – from healthcare to education. Amid the ongoing AI Impact Summit, we explore how the South Asian country is infusing the technology into everyday life.
AI in healthcare
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is showcasing its AI-based applications at the AI Impact Summit 2026. At its stall, one can find the National Anti-Fraud Unit (NAFU), built for the insurance arm of Ayushman Bharat.
Officials told Indian Express that this AI-powered tool will help in plugging leakages, be it abuse, misuse, wastage or deliberate fraud, in the healthcare system. “This tool is aimed at reducing errors and delays. Only correct claims will move ahead and bring transparency. “It can track missing documents, unclear reports or wrong patient information. As of 2026, Rs 650 crore worth of public money has been prevented from misuse,” the official said.
The claims received by the National Health Authority (NHA) are stored in cloud infrastructure. The system examines whether hospitalisation was medically justified as per the standard treatment guidelines of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). It also automatically flags fraud, such as extending hospital stays to increase claims or diverging from established treatment protocols.
The technology has also been deployed to automate claims processing through a mechanism called auto-adjudication, which will help reduce the time for settlement of claims.
The ministry is also showcasing its Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) system, an AI-based voice-to-text solution for doctors, at the summit. This helps them generate digital prescriptions in place of handwritten ones by transcribing the doctors’ speech into written text in real time, reported Indian Express.
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View AllUnion Health Minister JP Nadda has unveiled two major initiatives at the AI Impact Summit: the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (Sahi) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (Bodh).
“We are proud to host the India AI Impact Summit. This summit is both timely and necessary because artificial intelligence today is no longer a futuristic idea,” he said, adding that healthcare lies “at the very heart of this transformation”.
Launched two important digital health initiatives — SAHI (Strategy for AI in Healthcare for India) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) at the India AI Impact Summit today. This is a major step towards safe, ethical and evidence-based use of AI in healthcare.… pic.twitter.com/9rPK2Do7gk
— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) February 17, 2026
Nadda described Sahi as a governance framework, policy compass, and national roadmap for the responsible use of AI in healthcare. It will facilitate the use of technology in an ethical, transparent, accountable, and people-centric manner.
Bodh offers a structured mechanism for testing and verifying AI solutions before deployment at scale. It has been developed through collaboration between the government and academia.
A stall at the AI Impact Summit that caught PM Modi’s attention was of eka.care, a digital health platform. Patients can store their health records through the platform, while doctors can manage the histories of patients with the help of AI tools such as Eka Doc and Eka Scribe, as per Indian Express.
Why AI matters in healthcare
Underlining the importance of AI in healthcare, Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, said that the technology can transform India’s healthcare landscape and speed up progress towards universal health coverage.
Addressing a session during the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Paul said that integrating AI with India’s growing digital public health infrastructure will ensure interoperability, real-time analytics and better resource allocation across the health system, reported PTI.
He pointed out that AI can significantly boost primary healthcare, help in early diagnosis, enhance disease surveillance and support data-driven policy formulation.
Roy Jakobs, CEO of Royal Philips, said at the summit that AI will have the greatest impact on healthcare. But he added that AI alone cannot transform healthcare and must be backed by robust data governance, seamless data handling and strong clinical integration.
“Technology must align with clinical needs and workflows,” he said, emphasising that meaningful AI use needs quality data, interoperability and clearly defined use cases, reported PTI.
Speaking at a session titled Innovation to Impact: AI as a Public Health Game-Changer, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said AI in India must be seen as “All-Inclusive Intelligence”.
She gave examples of several existing AI tools in healthcare, including the AI-powered Media Disease Surveillance System that detects disease trends in 13 languages and produces real-time alerts to prop up preparedness for outbreaks, as per NDTV.
She said that under the One Health Mission, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched AI-based genomic surveillance tools that can predict potential zoonotic outbreaks before transmission from animals to humans.
Patel said that for tuberculosis, AI-enabled X-ray machines and computer-aided detection tools have reached diagnostics, making up for 16 per cent additional case detection.
With the help of AI tools, negative treatment results have dropped by 27 per cent, she added.
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AI in education
Like healthcare, India is also seeking to modernise the education sector through AI. Bodhan AI, a not-for-profit company, was launched at the Centre of Excellence in AI for Education last week. It will develop the Bharat EduAI Stack as Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for education.
The company will focus on research to build AI capabilities for Indian languages and develop assets like automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. Applications will be built to later introduce them in schools and other institutions through collaborations with state governments.
Following its launch, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced that the Centre plans to integrate AI tools in teaching from the next academic session at all levels.
Gnani.ai, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech firm, has developed Inya VoiceOS, a five-billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational model. The system, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Summit, facilitates natural spoken interaction across various Indian languages, as per Indian Express.
Union Education Minister has urged India’s youth to harness the full potential of AI, which he said will play a pivotal role in realising the vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047.
“We have a collective target that by 2047, India has to collectively realise vision for Viksit Bharat or developed economy and AI is the path to do that,” Pradhan said at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Tuesday (February 17).
He added that incorporating AI into education will propel the country towards a production and manufacturing-based economy.
Pradhan said AI can help understand and navigate the complexities of India’s multicultural and multilingual facets, as well as its rich history and legacy.
“AI in education and education in AI are deeply intertwined. Students and young professionals need to harness AI to educate, embrace, empower and create pathbreaking initiatives,” the education minister said.
“Let universities, startups and big companies come together to create a big vision for AI. Driven by youth, India will emerge as an AI-led global knowledge centre in the coming days,” he added.
AI in road safety
Stellarview, a Pune-based startup building computer-vision systems for roads and public infrastructure, has developed an AI tool for road safety. Its innovation also caught the eye of the PM at the summit.
Stellarview’s plug-and-play cameras can detect number plates, speeding, along with seatbelt and helmet violations. This is done without sending data to external servers. The system can also track vehicles at speeds of up to 230 kmph, Indian Express reported, citing the company.
Most of Stellarview’s clients are highway developers and operators, including Adani, IRB, and Ashoka Buildcon, and those working on projects under the National Highways Authority of India.
With inputs from agencies
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