India has taken a major step towards modernising public healthcare with the inauguration of its first government hospital based Artificial Intelligence clinic. The facility has been launched at the Government Institute of Medical Sciences in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
This development is being seen as a significant milestone not only for Uttar Pradesh but also for the country’s healthcare system. It marks a shift towards technology driven care in government hospitals, with the aim of improving diagnosis, treatment, and overall patient outcomes through advanced tools.
The AI clinic was inaugurated online by the Additional Director General of Health Services of the Government of India. It has been set up under the GIMS Centre for Medical Innovation. The main objective of the clinic is to provide AI based healthcare support directly to doctors and patients within a government hospital setting.
The clinic has been developed in collaboration with leading academic institutions including IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, and IIIT Lucknow. With this support, the centre is expected to emerge as a key hub for education and research. Its core focus areas include medical imaging, clinical decision support systems, and data driven healthcare services that can assist doctors in making faster and more accurate decisions.
The Government Institute of Medical Sciences in Greater Noida is an autonomous institution established by the Uttar Pradesh government on 15 February 2016. It has been developed on the model of SGPGI Lucknow. The institute offers undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and operates a 500 bed hospital that serves a large population in the region.
The inauguration of the AI clinic also highlights the long journey of artificial intelligence as a field. In 1950, Alan Turing published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, introducing the idea of the Turing Test. In 1956, John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” at the Dartmouth Workshop. During the 1950s and 1960s, early work focused on symbolic reasoning and logic based systems, including Arthur Samuel’s checkers program and the Logic Theorist by Alan Newell and Herbert Simon.
In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, one of the earliest chatbots. A major breakthrough came in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov. From the 2000s onwards, advances in machine learning and deep learning led to rapid progress. Since 2010, AI has seen widespread use through virtual assistants, facial recognition, self driving technology, and advanced language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
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