Digital health frontiers, including artificial intelligence

Overview

The Gujarat Declaration recognizes the transformative role that digital health technologies can play in enhancing the accessibility, safety, and integration of traditional medicine within conventional healthcare systems. Digital tools—such as telemedicine platforms, mobile health apps, and digital knowledge repositories—are revolutionizing how traditional medicine is practiced, shared, and integrated. These technologies enable the secure documentation of traditional knowledge, improve patient access to traditional medicine practitioners, and facilitate global collaboration in real-time. However, it is crucial that digital platforms uphold the cultural integrity of traditional medicine and protect the intellectual property rights of Indigenous and local communities.

Significance to TMGL

As an advanced digital library, TMGL harnesses cutting-edge digital tools to document and disseminate traditional medicine knowledge. TMGL incorporates state-of-the-art processes and technologies that are aligned with the rapid digital transformation in global health. TMGL actively engages in research and development aimed at the safe, equitable, and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health, particularly through efforts related to large language models (LLMs), geospatial clustering, and the automation of knowledge curation.

TMGL’s Contribution

TMGL serves as a leading platform to support the development of integrative health systems, harmonizing traditional and conventional health practices. Beyond its comprehensive scientific and policy repository, TMGL is evolving toward providing defensive intellectual property resources and AI-driven decision support tools for health providers and the public. Additionally, TMGL integrates the GPT Integrative Public Health Modeler, developed by BIREME/PAHO, to generate analysis and curate content that blends traditional knowledge with contemporary science. Through advanced digital platforms, TMGL ensures that traditional medicine practices are preserved, accessible, and safely integrated into healthcare systems globally, while maintaining a commitment to equity, cultural sensitivity, and intellectual property protection.