Digital Health in the Arab World
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King’s College Hospital Jeddah to become first hospital in EMEA to run InterSystems IntelliCareSeptember 9, 2026The Jeddah hospital's move to an AI-native health record platform signals how seriously Saudi Arabia's leading institutions are taking the next phase of healthcare digitisation
Abu Dhabi University opens reproductive research lab in partnership with FertiClinicSeptember 9, 2026A new facility at ADU brings clinical fertility expertise into the university setting, with implications for research, training, and the UAE's broader health ambitions
MBZUAI launches deep phenotyping study to map health and disease in the UAE populationSeptember 9, 2026A long-term Abu Dhabi research initiative aims to build one of the most detailed biological profiles of an Arab population ever assembled
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City crosses 1,260 robotic surgeries, with volumes up 42% in early 2026September 9, 2026Abu Dhabi's specialist hospital is building one of the most active robotic surgery programmes in the region, and the numbers are accelerating fast
Salesforce targets reactive operations in life sciences with three AI-powered toolsSeptember 9, 2026New products aim to embed compliance into content creation, surface clinical and commercial signals earlier, and extend governed intelligence across any platform
HealthEx connects personal medical records to Meta’s AI agent MuseSeptember 9, 2026A new integration lets Americans put their full health history to work inside a personal AI, with consent controls built in from the start
Nokia’s Network as Code is replacing SMS passcodes in healthcare — and it could matter for the GulfSeptember 9, 2026A new collaboration with BeeHealthy shows how telecom infrastructure can directly improve clinical security
Huawei and partners launch four AI healthcare solutions at HIMSS26 APACSeptember 9, 2026From smart wards to clinical decision support, the tech giant is pushing AI deeper into hospital workflows across the Asia-Pacific region
Apple Vision Pro used in live hip surgery for the first timeSeptember 7, 2026A Duke Health procedure shows where mixed reality headsets may actually find their footing — in the operating room, not the living room
75,000 samples in: inside Abu Dhabi’s AI wastewater early-warning systemSeptember 5, 2026RASID is quietly building one of the region's largest environmental health datasets, one wastewater sample at a time
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