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Shanghai-headquartered health tech firm United Imaging has signed a partnership agreement with King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC), one of the Gulf’s leading cancer care centres, in Jordan. The deal coincided with United Imaging’s attendance at Arab Health 2022, held in Dubai last week. Under the agreement, the two organisations will be collaborating in clinical applications [...]
The UK government welcomed a panel of UK and UAE experts in its digital health at Arab Health 2022 – the healthcare exhibition in the Middle East – to explore the role digital health has in improving patient outcomes in the UK and the Middle East. The seminar, ‘Next Steps for Digital Health’, featured Dr Mubaraka [...]
Building on the success of King’s College Hospital Dubai, which in a short period of time has become one of the best hospitals in UAE, Ashmore Group, a specialist emerging markets investment manager, in partnership with King’s College Hospital London and Saudi Bugshan Group, is pleased to announce the start of construction of King’s College [...]
A UK-made medical device that has transformed regional anaesthesia into a single operator procedure will be demonstrated live at Arab Health 2022. Health Tech World’s Arab Health correspondent Julia Price speaks with Dr Fawzy, who will demonstrate the device. SAFIRA has been developed by medical device company Medovate in collaboration with clinicians from the UK’s [...]
The growing awareness around mental health in sport has led to two new client wins for wellbeing technology start-up Frog Systems. The company’s software was selected by United Leicester and Switch the Play for two significant projects - a free digital wellbeing hub for sports fans in the city of Leicester and a platform to [...]
Swedish medtech firm Medow has won a £10m deal with the Saudi Arabian Cigalah Group to sell its IV-bracelet, which enables safer treatments by better securing intravenous tubes. The agreement will see the device distributed across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain over the next five years. Normally, intravenous tubes are kept in place by [...]
How the Cures Act helped set the stage for digital health care transformation. By Matt Wolf, Kurt Shenk and Davis Nordell The potential of the digital health space is greater than it has ever been, thanks to the Cures Act of 2016—which allowed for more rapid digital transformation around health care data—along with the more [...]
Citizens and expats based in Dubai can now access the Middle East’s first digital health library, created through a groundbreaking new partnership. The Osteopathic Health Centre, Dubai, is working with ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps), the world’s largest app review and distribution company, to create the library. Through a [...]
Sponsored feature Imprivata, digital identity company for healthcare, has announced that Emerging Global Technologies (EGT) of Abu Dhabi has become the distributor for its solutions in the Middle East. EGT has a diversified portfolio of products and services, and has many years of experience in healthcare and IT. EGT has been a successful Imprivata partner and the collaboration [...]
