Prana.

In Sanskrit, prana is the breath that keeps a body alive.

A country breathes too: each day, millions of people describe how they feel.

Prana is a research lab building the intelligence layer for India's health. It listens to how people describe their symptoms, in the languages they speak, learns what happens after each report, and helps doctors, hospitals and public health teams decide what to do next.

We think clinical intelligence for India has to be built in India, on Indian evidence, under Indian governance.

01The problem

India's health system produces an enormous amount of clinical information, and much of it is lost. It is spread across providers, recorded one visit at a time, and spoken in the mixed languages patients use. Very little of it can be studied or learnt from.

Clinical AI built elsewhere doesn't fill the gap. It is trained on other countries' patients and practice, there are few benchmarks that test it against Indian clinical work, and improving it often means moving patient records away from the hospitals that hold them.

02What we work on

First contact

Prana talks with patients in their own language and suggests where they should go for care. Doctors review and correct it. It has been piloted in a hospital outpatient department, and it is where our data starts.

A world model of health

How illness develops in one patient, and how disease patterns change across districts.

Early warning

Testing whether symptoms reported at first contact show an illness rising before diagnoses, prescriptions and claims do.

Clinical speech and language

How patients describe illness across Indian languages, starting with speech.

Indian clinical benchmarks

Tests built from the work Indian clinicians do: triage, reading lab reports and scans, differential diagnosis, prescribing, discharge notes.

Training and evaluation

Training on Indian data and testing against those benchmarks at each hospital. Nothing reaches patients until it beats the current clinical workflow.

03How Prana improves

04What other records miss

Hospital software stores diagnoses and insurance claims store bills. Structured records rarely keep what the patient said before diagnosis, a doctor's view of where they were first sent, or anyone who didn't file a claim.

05How we work

1. We check consent each time patient data is used. Patients who say no get the same care.
2. Patient data is stored and processed in India.
3. Hospitals keep and control their own records. We hold a research copy only for patients who agree to it.
4. What Prana says to a patient is logged before the patient hears it. Clinicians review those logs.
5. Outside organisations receive aggregate findings only. We plan to offer Prana to insurers, pharma companies and public health programmes.

06Built on ABDM

ABDM, India's digital health mission, provides ABHA health IDs and a registry of health facilities. Prana is building clinical intelligence for the first point of contact, and the research that improves it.

07Join us

We work with hospitals, medical colleges and doctors, whose expertise shapes what Prana learns and how it is tested. If you work on clinical machine learning, speech, epidemiology or clinical informatics, or you are a clinician who wants to help build this, write to us at hello@aisentinel.care.