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The Digital Health Sector

After the COVID-19 pandemic and most sectors going into pivotal digital transformations, digital transformation in the healthcare sector has become more important than ever. Hence, healthcare institutions started developing a digital strategy centered around patients and healthcare workers with an in-depth study of the IT options, financing issues and best practices that can be adopted in this field. This transformation…

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Hybrid Operating Rooms

State-of-the-art operating rooms reflect the various medical developments in modern medical equipment, imaging devices, or even sterilization and hygiene, while taking into account the surgeon’s primary role. This shows how hospitals are investing in digital devices and technologies as well as advanced medical imaging. Medical imaging companies have been able to combine high-quality surgical imaging technology with utmost flexibility in…

Medtech

Patient Safety sponsored by LINET MEA

Patient safety and medical error prevention have been receiving significant attention in recent years as they have become the cornerstone in hospitals. Improving patient safety and quality of healthcare is key as every patient has the right to receive care in a safe and secure setting. Patient safety is the cornerstone of healthcare and the goal is to prevent any…

Interview

Bassem Bibi

“Abbott has developed and launched 12 tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its antibodies” Abbott has developed and launched 12 tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its antibodies and has so far delivered more than 1 billion tests globally. “Hospitals” magazine recently interviewed Mr. Bassem Bibi, Divisional Vice President for Abbott’s rapid diagnostic business in the Middle East…

Hospitals

CARE WORTH TRAVELING FOR

When it comes to treating serious illness, patients from the Middle East and beyond regularly choose Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States.  We are a quaternary care facility that is part of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world.  We are home to the Texas Heart®…

Medical Articles

Physician Leadership in the Arab World … a Call for Action !

The Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us how complex healthcare has become worldwide. The challenges of balancing high-quality healthcare against, ever-increasing, costs and of harmonizing technological advancements (such as artificial intelligence) with humanity has placed increasing demands on clinicians and hospitals alike. The most successful health systems in the world have strong physician leadership cultures. Since physicians are unique “domain-experts” of…

eMagazine

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Medtech

Ground breaking regional anesthesia device SAFIRA™ demonstrated live at Arab Health 2022

A game changing UK technology that transforms Regional Anesthesia into a single operator procedure and improves patient safety, will be demonstrated live by a renowned clinician in the field of anesthesia at Arab Health 2022. The procedure is being carried out in a state-of-the-art operating theatre located in the ABHI UK Pavilion by Dr Emad Fawzy, a Consultant Anesthesiologist at…

COVID-19

Evusheld long-acting antibody combination retains neutralising activity against Omicron variant in independent FDA study 

AstraZeneca’s Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody combination for the prevention of COVID-19, retained neutralising activity against the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant (B.1.1.529), according to new preclinical data. In this study, Evusheld’s Inhibitory Concentration 50 (IC50), a measure of neutralising potency of an antibody, was 171 ng/ml and 277 ng/ml in two confirmatory tests, which is within the range…

Health News

LEADERS OF HEALTH MEET AT LIV HOSPITAL EXPO!

Liv Hospital Expo brought together world leaders in health, medical tourism agencies, institutions and organizations within the scope of medical tourism from 35 countries, more than 200 participants. At Liv Hospital Expo, which once again showed the world how strong Turkey is in health tourism, Turkey’s advantageous position, leadership, and personalized boutique approach in healthcare services and technologies were discussed.…