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Ethical Guidelines for Application of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research and Healthcare

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Ethical principles and stakeholder responsibilities for developing, validating, deploying and adopting AI in biomedical research and healthcare in India, including ethics-committee review processes and informed-consent requirements for AI-based research.

Why it matters

Health-AI developers running studies or deployments in India are expected to obtain ethics-committee review and follow these principles.

What it requires

Human oversightData governanceBias and non-discriminationTransparency to usersImpact assessment
SourceICMR: https://www.icmr.gov.in/ethical-guidelines-for-application-of-artificial-intelligence-in-biomedical-research-and-healthcareSecondary: https://www.icmr.gov.in/icmrobject/custom_data/pdf/Ethical-guidelines/Ethical_Guidelines_AI_Healthcare_2023.pdf Checked against the source on 4 Oct 2026. Some details could not be confirmed from a primary source. Released by ICMR in March 2023 (reported 23-24 Mar 2023; exact release date not stated in the document, so adopted date left null). ICMR website not reachable from this environment.

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Ethical Guidelines for Application of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research and Healthcare. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Status: In force. wheresthe.ai, https://wheresthe.ai/rule/in-icmr-ai-health-ethics-guidelines-2023/ (verified 4 Oct 2026).

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