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As hospitals manage rising service demand in a complex regulatory landscape, cloud is emerging as the essential enabler of next-generation, AI-driven diagnostics – secure, scalable and ensuring continuity in increasingly interoperable ecosystems.

With the clinical artificial intelligence agent, doctors are able to spend less time sifting through drop-down menus and typing on their laptops to document patient visits, the EHR company says.

According to Emirates Health Services' H.E. Mubaraka Ibrahim, the UAE is using clinical and non-clinical AI tools across its facilities to give clinicians time back and to support precision medicine and healthier communities.

Concept Realisation's Nasser Massoud says GCC digital health success depends on patients trusting technology, regulators supporting innovation sans safety risks and insurers paying providers fairly for telehealth services.

Instead of buying digital innovations, Middle Eastern countries should focus on creating and scaling up their own products while developing local workforces, says Alvarez & Marshal's Mazin Gadir.

While he stresses that AI won't replace doctors, surgeon and futurist Dr. Shafi Ahmed says it is already being used for imaging, documentation, digital surgery and agentic assistants to help build future-ready health systems.