{"id":993436,"date":"2026-02-18T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993436"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:56:08","slug":"ai-driven-tools-can-make-drug-discovery-cost-effective-nadda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/ai-driven-tools-can-make-drug-discovery-cost-effective-nadda\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven tools can make drug discovery cost-effective: Nadda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: AI-driven tools can accelerate drug discovery, shorten research timelines, and make research processes more cost-effective, thereby strengthening affordable healthcare delivery, said Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI does not operate in isolation, but thrives on strong digital infrastructure and high-quality data,\u201d said Nadda as he launched two pioneering digital health initiatives &#8211; SAHI (Secure AI for Health Initiative) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) during the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: AI-driven tools can accelerate drug discovery, shorten research timelines, and make research processes more cost-effective, thereby strengthening affordable healthcare delivery, said Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday. \u201cAI does not operate in isolation, but thrives on strong digital infrastructure and high-quality data,\u201d said Nadda as he launched two pioneering digital health initiatives &#8211; SAHI (Secure AI for Health Initiative) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) during the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993436","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=993436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}