{"id":992796,"date":"2026-02-17T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992796"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:49:42","slug":"ai-should-reduce-burden-on-our-health-care-workforce-mohfw-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/ai-should-reduce-burden-on-our-health-care-workforce-mohfw-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"AI should reduce burden on our health care workforce: MoHFW secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into India&#8217;s healthcare framework is poised to revolutionise service delivery by bridging critical gaps and reducing the burden on the medical workforce. A core objective of the national AI strategy is to support rather than replace human intervention. <\/p>\n<p>Punya Salila Srivastava, IAS and Secretary, Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare, explained that while digital systems capture and store information, AI enables them to interpret and prioritise data more effectively. &#8220;One of the key expectations from AI, especially in public health, is that it should reduce the burden on our health care workforce,&#8221; she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into India&#8217;s healthcare framework is poised to revolutionise service delivery by bridging critical gaps and reducing the burden on the medical workforce. A core objective of the national AI strategy is to support rather than replace human intervention. Punya Salila Srivastava, IAS and Secretary, Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare, explained that while digital systems capture and store information, AI enables them to interpret and prioritise data more effectively. &#8220;One of the key expectations from AI, especially in public health, is that it should reduce the burden on our health care workforce,&#8221; she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}