Middle East

A closer look at how Apple’s watchOS 11 brings powerful health and fitness insights 

Apple has previewed watchOS 11, with features for Apple Watch that builds on its leading sensor technology, advanced algorithms and science-based approach to offer breakthrough insights into users’ health and fitness, and more personalisation than...

UAE’S Quest Nutra Pharma digitises critical quality management and operational processes with Kissflow 

Streamlining more than 30 mission-critical workflows – including those for new product development, market compliance and corrective action and preventive action – has enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of the company’s operations. ...

Empowering healthcare in the Middle East through AI 

In this article, we hear from Dr Mohammed Hammoud, a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (part of Qatar Foundation) and the creator of Avey, an AI app that helps people self-diagnose accurately, connect with doctors, order...

Cloud Solutions and Extreme Networks partner to progress patient care and power the next generation of healthcare services 

Extreme Networks, a leader in cloud networking, and Cloud Solutions, a leading provider of healthcare IT services, have announced that they will expand their partnership, enabling Cloud Solutions’ customers to leverage advanced wireless and fabric...

CABSAT celebrates 30th anniversary, returns to Dubai World Trade Centre in 2024, alongside the second edition of Integrate Middle East

CABSAT, the Middle East’s flagship event for content, broadcast, satellite, media, and entertainment, will celebrate its 30th anniversary with its highly anticipated return to the Dubai World Trade Centre from May 21 till 23, 2024. Also returning is...

XRHealth releases PTSD therapy packages 

XRHealth, a leading healthcare platform in spatial computing, is releasing a full PTSD package for XR therapy. The offering will include practices in mindfulness, art therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, exposure therapy and EMDR. Due to the current...

2024 healthcare predictions  

As we kick off 2024, Wayne Miller, Director, EMEA Healthcare Practice, Zebra Technologies, tells us the biggest healthcare predictions for the year ahead.  1. The progression of the retail-isation of healthcare    When it comes to the...

Zimmer Biomet launches innovative care management system in the Middle East

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, a global medical technology leader, has announced that its mymobility care management system will become available in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia this year. The big step forward has been made public at the Arab Health...

How can MedTech support VTE management in the Middle East? 

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) – also known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – is a significant and global health issue with rising prevalence in many regions, particularly the Middle East. In this article, Bernard Ross, CEO at Sky Medical...

The digital era in orthodontics: A conversation with Dr Suliman Shahin  

In this article, we speak to Dr Suliman Shahin, Chairman of the Preventive Dental Sciences at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University’s College of Dentistry, and member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Orthodontic Society (SOS). He is also the...

Middle Eastern healthcare and a new era of open innovation 

Like the rest of the world, countries in the Middle East are facing an ever-growing number of healthcare challenges, from managing an ageing population to tackling mental health and inequity in access to healthcare and medicine to the rise of infectious...

World’s first fully robotic liver transplant 

In a historic achievement, the Organ Transplant Center of Excellence (OTCoE) team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has successfully performed the world’s first fully robotic liver transplant in the Kingdom of...