Digital Health in the Arab World
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Fawry and DMS link payment terminals directly to hospital management systems in EgyptSeptember 16, 2026The integration eliminates manual data entry at the point of sale, with transaction data moving automatically between cashier screens and back-office systems
Egypt eyes national digital health platform to unify patient records and AI servicesSeptember 16, 2026Cairo's health ministry is in talks with Chinese tech firms to build a connected system that could reshape how millions of Egyptians access care
UAE oncologists are using AI to decode why the same cancer treatment works for some patients and not othersSeptember 16, 2026Dubai-based Nexomic is building a multi-layered AI platform that goes beyond single genetic markers to map the full biological behaviour of tumours
M42 taps Oracle to unify clinical and genomic data across its global networkSeptember 16, 2026The Abu Dhabi-based health group is betting on data intelligence to sharpen chronic disease management and bring precision medicine closer to reality
Kanaf Centre adopts forensic imaging system to strengthen child protection in the UAESeptember 16, 2026The Safe Ultra System brings clinical precision to one of child safeguarding's most sensitive frontlines
Abu Dhabi’s SAKINA partners with US neuroscience firm PeakLogic to advance brain health diagnosticsSeptember 16, 2026The agreement signals a serious push to bring quantitative EEG and precision psychiatry tools into the UAE's mental health infrastructure
Abu Dhabi links health and foreign affairs data to digitise birth and death certificatesSeptember 16, 2026A quiet but significant integration between DoH and MoFA puts two of life's most critical documents fully online through TAMM
Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital completes advanced shoulder reconstruction for patient with severe bilateral joint diseaseSeptember 16, 2026The procedure marks the first stage of a planned two-shoulder intervention for a 67-year-old with years of debilitating pain
Nara Health raises $14M to fix a health insurance system that half of insured Americans have already given up onSeptember 16, 2026Backed by Khosla Ventures, the AI-native benefits administrator has processed over $600M in claims and is cutting employer costs by more than 50%
FDA grants breakthrough status to Nutromics’ drug-monitoring skin patchSeptember 16, 2026The Australian medtech's wearable vancomycin sensor could reshape how clinicians dose one of medicine's most critical antibiotics
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