India turns to AI and real-time analytics to strengthen disease surveillance !

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📰 What’s happening

  • According to a November 28, 2025 report, India — via National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) — is embarking on a major push to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), real-time data analytics, and digital intelligence tools to strengthen national disease surveillance. Gulf News+2IANS News+2

  • The goal is to shift from traditional “detective-style” surveillance to a predictive approach — enabling authorities to catch outbreaks before they spiral. www.ndtv.com+1

  • A key component is the Health Sentinel pipeline, which scans millions of media reports daily in 13 Indian languages, extracts structured data (disease type, location, scale), and flags unusual disease-related events for expert review. IANS News+2www.ndtv.com+2

  • Since its 2022 deployment, the system has processed over 300 million news articles and flagged more than 95,000 unique health-related events, marking a ~150% increase in detection capacity vs manual methods — with a 98% reduction in workload for surveillance teams. IANS News+2www.ndtv.com+2

🔬 Why it matters

  • The predictive, data-driven surveillance means faster detection of outbreaks (diseases like dengue, chikungunya, etc.), enabling early intervention and containment — before outbreaks escalate widely. Hindustan Times+2www.ndtv.com+2

  • Real-time analytics and automated scanning expand the coverage beyond conventional reporting (which often lags), making the system more proactive and responsive. IANS News+2www.ndtv.com+2

  • The integration with newer infrastructure efforts (like metropolitan surveillance units under PM‑Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, or PM-ABHIM) aims to strengthen disease monitoring at both local and national levels. IANS News+1

📈 Broader context

  • This shift is part of a wider global and national trend: using AI and big-data tools for early warning systems, outbreak prediction, and public health surveillance. Experts see AI as a transformative enabler for early detection, forecasting, and rapid response in infectious disease control. Frontiers+2Cureus+2

  • However — as with any AI-based surveillance system — effectiveness depends on data quality, timely expert verification, integration with on-ground public health infrastructure, and responsible handling of alerts to avoid false positives or panic. (Discussions around these trade-offs appear in recent systematic reviews.

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