Prime Highlights
- HIVE combines AI with clinical expertise and verified medical evidence to support healthcare decisions.
- The platform is designed to strengthen preventive healthcare and assist doctors and frontline health workers across India.
Key Facts
- The Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation (HPHF) is a healthcare organisation focused on preventive healthcare and public health.
- HIVE verifies recommendations using patient records, medical literature, clinical guidelines and doctors’ clinical judgement.
Background
A Chennai-based epidemiologist has developed an artificial intelligence-powered healthcare platform designed to strengthen preventive healthcare and improve evidence-based medical decision-making across India.
The Healthcare Intelligence and Verification Engine (HIVE), created by Dr Viduthalai Virumbi Balagurusamy, founder director of the Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation (HPHF), combines artificial intelligence with clinical expertise and verified medical evidence. It is designed to assist doctors, frontline healthcare workers and public health programmes with transparent, patient-specific recommendations.
Unlike conventional AI chatbots that rely mainly on online information, HIVE verifies recommendations using patient records, clinical reasoning, medical literature, public health data and current clinical guidelines. It also incorporates the treating doctor’s clinical judgement before providing decision support.
The developers said the platform addresses growing concerns over misinformation, delayed diagnosis and inappropriate self-medication as more people use AI for healthcare advice.
Dr Balagurusamy said HIVE was built to ensure healthcare decisions are based on reliable evidence, clinical reasoning and patient-specific information rather than generic responses. He added that artificial intelligence should strengthen clinicians’ judgment instead of replacing it.
The foundation said HIVE aims to support early disease detection, improve treatment compliance and expand healthcare access. The platform can also help address public health priorities, including maternal health, anaemia, mental health, non-communicable diseases and preventive screening.
HPHF is offering HIVE free to individuals and at subsidised rates for doctors, clinics and hospitals to improve access to verified healthcare intelligence, especially in resource-constrained communities.
