India, Oct. 29 -- As India accelerates its adoption of digital health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), building a future-ready healthcare workforce has become a strategic imperative. Released at the 20th edition of FICCI HEAL, the FICCI-KPMG in India knowledge paper, "Skilling India's healthcare workforce for digital health and AI", examines the emerging workforce requirements of the healthcare sector and outlines a roadmap for strengthening digital and AI capabilities across the healthcare ecosystem.

According to the report, India currently has approximately 9.01 million registered healthcare professionals, but continues to face challenges related to workforce availability, distribution, specialisation, and digital readine...