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Hi Dubai
11 hours ago
- Business
- Hi Dubai
Dubai to Host Inaugural WHX Tech 2025, Showcasing Global Digital Health and AI Innovations
The inaugural WHX Tech 2025, a new global digital health event by Informa Markets, will take place from 8 to 10 September at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Held in collaboration with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and under the patronage of key UAE health authorities, the event will spotlight artificial intelligence, women-led innovation, and practical healthcare solutions. More than 200 speakers, 300 brands, and 5,000 healthcare leaders from over 30 countries are expected. The World X stage will feature sessions on generative AI breakthroughs, women's leadership in healthcare, and real-world technology case studies. Key speakers include Tatyana Kanzaveli, Founder and CEO of Open Health Network, who will explore how AI can transform clinical trials, decision-making, and personalised care. Dr. Rashmi Rao of Philips and Meghan Huffman of Novant Health will lead discussions on innovation, adoption, and patient-centric care. The event will also host live hospital simulations, the US$50,000 WHX Tech Xcelerate Startup Competition, and curated investor matchmaking to move solutions from concept to implementation. Peter Hall, President – Middle East, India, Türkiye & Africa at Informa Markets, said WHX Tech will anchor Dubai's position as a global hub for healthcare innovation, connecting leaders to shape the sector's future. News Source: Emirates News Agency
Zawya
a day ago
- Health
- Zawya
Dubai to ignite global digital health transformation with AI at the forefront at WHX Tech 2025
Healthcare delivery to be redefined at WHX Tech, a three-day event driving AI adoption and bringing together 200+ experts and 300 brands to spark conversation and make real-world impact With high-profile speakers and a range of diverse sessions, World X stage to unveil next-gen AI platforms designed for clinical trials, behavioural health, and patient engagement Dubai, UAE: The global digital health spotlight will shine on Dubai when WHX Tech 2025, the launch edition of Informa Markets' premier digital health event, runs at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 8–10 September with a bold focus on artificial intelligence, women-led innovation, and real-world solutions. In partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the gathering is focused on redefining how healthcare is delivered and experienced. Under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP), Dubai Health, Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Emirates Health Services (EHS), and NABIDH, WHX Tech will bring together more than 200 speakers, 300 brands, and 5,000 healthcare leaders from more than 30 countries to spark the partnerships and policy shifts needed to move innovation from theory to practice. World X Stage: Where Ideas Become Action At the heart of WHX Tech is the World X stage, a vibrant platform highlighting women leaders, generative AI breakthroughs, and case studies of technologies already reshaping care. Hospital systems are integrating AI to enhance safety and streamline workflows, while startups are reimagining patient engagement, the stage is designed to move beyond theory into actionable change. Tatyana Kanzaveli, Founder & CEO of Open Health Network, a company revolutionising healthcare through generative AI, whose work has been recognised by the White House, Forbes, and the United Nations, will speak at World X, discussing Generative AI in healthcare and the barriers preventing it from moving beyond conversational chat bots. From accelerating drug discovery pipelines to supporting clinical decision-making and enabling personalised care delivery, the session will explore the growing impact of Gen-AI across the healthcare value chain. 'Rather than come in to patch a broken system, AI is here to reprogram it,' said Kanzaveli. 'At WHX Tech, I will show how we are breaking barriers with platforms such as TrialSphere for AI-powered clinical trials and TAMI, our generative AI solution for scalable behavioural health. WHX Tech is where the pitching of ideas stops, and we finally start rewriting the future of healthcare.' Women Leading the Digital Health Agenda The event's focus on women in digital health is reflected in high-profile sessions featuring Dr. Rashmi Rao, Chief Product Officer at Philips, on the unwritten rules of health innovation and investment, and Meghan Huffman, Vice President of Digital Health at Novant Health, who will join discussions on adoption, real-world applications of digital health tech, and the future of the sector. Huffman, considered one of the most influential women in healthcare, will also participate in a panel entitled 'Envisioning Healthcare in 2050', exploring AI integration, patient-centric models, and the impact of tech on health systems. 'Getting the innovative ideas and technology in place is often the easy part,' said Huffman. 'The real work is making digital health usable, trusted, and embedded in the fabric of care delivery. WHX Tech offers a rare opportunity to connect with global leaders who are turning vision into operational reality.' AI and Adoption: Driving Systemic Change With generative AI and interoperability dominating the agenda, WHX Tech 2025 is uniquely positioned to foster the public-private partnerships that drive sustainable adoption. Live hospital simulations, the US$50,000 WHX Tech Xcelerate Startup Competition, and curated investor matchmaking sessions will accelerate solutions from concept to implementation. 'WHX Tech is designed to inspire action,' said Peter Hall, President – Middle East, India, Türkiye & Africa, Informa Markets. 'From our government partnerships to the global speaker lineup, every element is geared toward solutions that improve care today and for tomorrow. As the event's September launch nears, WHX Tech promises to be a launchpad for a new era of healthcare, powered by AI, equity, and collaboration, and anchoring Dubai's position as a global innovation hub.' Arab Health Legacy Powers the Launch of WHX Tech WHX Tech is the latest evolution of Informa Markets' 50-year healthcare legacy in the region, moving the industry's delivery needle beyond the well-established Arab Health, now known as WHX Dubai. 'Arab Health was the Middle East's premier healthcare platform for decades,' Hall added. 'WHX Tech represents the next era – a truly global meeting of minds where healthcare leaders and technologists unite to drive transformation. With Dubai as the gateway between East and West, we are bringing solutions to rethink care delivery, management, and patient experience at scale.' About Informa Markets: Informa Markets creates platforms for industries and specialist markets to trade, innovate and grow. Our portfolio is comprised of more than 550 international B2B events and brands in markets including Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Infrastructure, Construction & Real Estate, Fashion & Apparel, Hospitality, Food & Beverage, and Health & Nutrition, among others. We provide customers and partners around the globe with opportunities to engage, experience and do business through face-to-face exhibitions, specialist digital content and actionable data solutions. As the world's leading exhibitions organizer, we bring a diverse range of specialist markets to life, unlocking opportunities and helping them to thrive 365 days of the year.
Korea Herald
17-06-2025
- Health
- Korea Herald
HIMSS and Informa Markets Partner to Accelerate Digital Health Transformation with Co-Located Conferences in Malaysia for International Healthcare Week
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has partnered with Informa Markets to co-locate the 2025 HIMSS APAC Health Conference within International Healthcare Week (IHW) 2025, Southeast Asia's premier healthcare event, to be held from July 16 to 18 at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre. The annual HIMSS APAC Health Conference is one of the most influential digital health events in the region. It offers curated educational sessions with leading experts on healthcare's most pressing topics, including digital health transformation, artificial intelligence, governance, cybersecurity, and workforce development. Thousands of healthcare professionals including clinicians, hospital and health system executives, senior government officials, and digital health thought leaders will converge to share real-world case studies, strategies to achieve digital maturity, and the latest innovations in healthcare technology. "We are excited to co-locate our flagship event in the APAC region with Informa Markets' International Healthcare Week," said Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS. "This partnership creates a platform to deliver critical insights, expert-level education, and networking opportunities to a global network of health organizations, healthcare providers, technology partners, and world governments. The co-located events will empower health and technology leaders with the critical insights needed to accelerate progress toward meeting the challenges now facing the global health eco-system." The partnership between HIMSS and Informa Markets' International Healthcare Week will offer health professionals opportunities to collaborate and exchange insights and ideas with a shared goal of improving care delivery and patient outcomes. Kuala Lumpur was chosen as the host city for IHW because of Malaysia's leadership in advancing digital health transformation in the region. Learn more or register for the event. About HIMSS HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is a global advisor, thought leader and member-based society committed to reforming the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology. As a mission-driven nonprofit, HIMSS offers a unique depth and breadth of expertise in digital health transformation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, workforce development, public policy, and research to advise leaders, stakeholders and influencers across the global health ecosystem on best practices. With a community-centric approach, our health innovation experts deliver key insights, education, advisory services, and engaging events to healthcare providers, payers, governments, and other health services organizations, ensuring they have the right information at the point of decision. HIMSS has served the global health community for more than 60 years, with focused operations across Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Our members include more than 125,000 individuals and approximately 1,500 provider organizations, nonprofit partners and health services organizations. Our global headquarters is in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and our Americas headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois. Join our global network at
CNBC
10-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
47. Abridge
Founders: Shiv Rao (CEO), Zack LiptonLaunched: 2018Headquarters: Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaFunding: $462.5 millionValuation: $2.7 billionKey Technologies: Artificial intelligence, generative AIIndustry: Health carePrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 list: 0 Skyrocketing rates of burnout among doctors during the pandemic highlighted a huge problem and patient risk. Abridge offers a generative AI platform that is designed to reduce physician burnout levels, a note-taking tool that doctors can rely on during conversations with patients, saving them valuable time that too often has been sucked up by documentation. "After I see a patient, I have to write notes, I have to place orders, I have to think about the patient summary," Abridge founder Dr. Shiv Rao told CNBC at a 2024 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference. The Abridge technology, Rao said, "allows me to focus on the person in front of me — the most important person, the patient — because when I hit start, have a conversation, then hit stop, I can swivel my chair and within seconds, the note's there." Abridge's platform is able to structure these notes into draft medical records in outpatient, inpatient and emergency medicine settings. Doctors can then double check these generated visit summaries and medical orders before signing off on them. But Abridge is more than just a transcription tool. The platform is also able to match medical issues with insurance billing codes, along with drafting medical orders. With a feature called Linked Evidence, the information sources used to generate Abridge's medical summaries can be found and verified by physicians. In 2024, Abridge announced a new health system enterprise customer nearly every week, according to a report by Contrary Research. Some of Abridge's most recent customers include Mayo Clinic, Duke Health, UNC Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine. The company has partnered with Nvidia to further develop Abridge's ability to understand multilingual conversations between doctors and patients. The software is now able to recognize almost 100 languages. Abridge says that physicians who use its platform at River Health have seen as much as a 55% decrease in burnout. Burnout levels have come back down to pre-Covid levels, according to American Medical Association data, but it remains a huge issue in healthcare. In 2024, approximately 43% of physicians reported burnout, which was down from over 48% in 2022. Physicians are also at a higher risk for burnout compared to other U.S. workers, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Abridge is just one of the many companies trying to make a name for itself in the booming market for AI medical scribing tools. Competition for Abridge ranges from other startups like Freed and Suki, to tech giants like Microsoft's Nuance Communications, which recently launched an interface update available in the U.S. and Canada. Fellow Disruptor Rad AI also offers written summaries as part of its AI tools for radiologists. "It'll be incumbent upon us to make sure that we're able to demonstrate differentiation," Rao told CNBC. "So far, we've had good luck these last few years doing that."
Newsweek
02-05-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
AI Agents Are Hospitals' Newest 'Employees.' We Called Their References.
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. There's a new type of AI bot on the block—and this time, it's completely autonomous. AI agents are steadily making their way into the public consciousness as more companies release them. Last year, generative AI was all the rage, producing ambient scribes that could transcribe a conversation into clinical notes and in-box bots that could draft responses to patients' MyChart messages. This year, however, the spotlight has shifted to agentic AI, which can initiate a task and complete it—start to finish—without human intervention or oversight. It's widely considered that this technology could change the way health care organizations function. Earlier iterations of AI could make humans' work easier, more efficient or more accurate, but AI agents can work independently of us. While generative AI can answer your questions, agentic AI can pose its own and even reason through them. AI agents were a hot topic at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in early March, and the buzz has only grown since then. On April 23, Nvidia launched a new platform to help companies build AI agents, which it calls "AI teammates." The company estimates that the agentic AI market is worth $1 trillion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Other projections anticipate rapid market growth, from $7.8 billion in 2025 to $56.2 billion in 2030. Health systems are deploying agentic AI models across multiple departments, including the revenue cycle and the patient exam room. Health systems are deploying agentic AI models across multiple departments, including the revenue cycle and the patient exam room. Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty But health systems have taken a more cautious approach to AI than their counterparts in business and tech. Although many health care organizations are experimenting with AI, only 30 percent of their pilots and proof-of-concept projects make it to the development phase, according to a recent report from Bessemer Venture Partners, Amazon Web Services and Bain & Company. As agentic AI introduces even more capabilities and risks, it can further complicate the gradual rollouts underway at health care organizations: so Newsweek connected with 10 agentic AI developers to learn exactly what leaders can expect from the technology. How are health systems using agentic AI? AI agents have been deployed in various departments across hospitals and health systems, from the revenue cycle to the clinical decision-making process. They're yielding strong results—according to the technology companies that create them and the researchers who are examining them. Cedar, a patient financial platform for health care providers, launched an AI voice agent on April 29 to automate patient billing calls. Two days later, Zocdoc announced an agent to automate scheduling calls. Both companies said that their agents could speak conversationally and answer phones 24/7, freeing up operators to focus on more complex requests. Care providers are also using agentic AI. Google Cloud collaborated with more than 50 health care providers at Seattle Children's to develop Pathway Assistant, an AI agent that can synthesize information from clinical standard pathways. The tool is expected to increase compliance with standard care processes and make it easier for physicians to access the information they need, the companies said. It would take 15 minutes for a physician to conduct this search manually, but the agent can do it in seconds. AI agents are improving system-level efficiency too. Take for example: It is designed to orchestrate the chaotic reality of hospital operations by continuously gathering, reasoning through and acting on real-time data. The platform starts by graphing a comprehensive map of how patients, staff and clinical spaces interrelate, using live feeds from electronic health records, staffing schedules and inventory management systems (supplemented by Bluetooth technology). This allows it to predict problems, like equipment shortages or staffing bottlenecks, and initiate efforts to prevent them. uses a team of AI agents, each assigned a narrow task to focus on constantly. While one agent monitors the availability of clean equipment, another might keep watch over a predictive model that calculates future equipment demands. When the robot squad senses trouble, it will ping another agent to call the biomedical department and relay the message to a human coordinator: for example, "We need to move six pumps to the ICU in the next 45 minutes, and there are five broken pumps in the cardio unit. Maybe you should go take care of the broken pumps, then grab another from room one and take them to the ICU." Since AI agents can converse, the human coordinator can respond with questions about the inventory or tell the agent that they're busy and should call back later. The agentic team is constantly triaging issues to flag the most pertinent problems first, based on both real-time data and the predictive model's concerns. Historically, humans have made these small decisions themselves, but they didn't have the time or bandwidth to coordinate with one another, Rom Eizenberg, chief revenue officer, told Newsweek. Agentic AI can serve as the middleman, eliminating guesswork that causes accidental clogs. "It's a jungle out there," Eizenberg said. "The 1,400 vendors, the unstructured data, the siloed behavior, the millions of phone calls to make everything work: that's the root cause for all the evils in health care." Can AI agents make call centers more efficient? Communication is a major hiccup in the health care industry; as of 2019, 70 percent of health care providers still used fax machines. Patients, providers, payers and pharmacies frequently swap info by phone (to all parties' dismay). About half of patients are satisfied with the service at their health care provider's call center, according to a 2023 survey of 200 senior leaders. The average hold time at these organizations was 4.4 minutes, well above the HFMA's recommendation of 50 seconds. When patients can't reach their health care providers, they may seek instant answers elsewhere: turning to social media and search engines, which are rife with misinformation. "I wish I had thousands of doctors that could do every single phone call to every patient, every outreach, every follow-up," Dr. Jackie Gerhart, a family medicine physician and the chief medical officer and vice president of clinical informatics at Epic, told Newsweek. AI agents can help fill the gap: calling patients to check in after missed appointments, scheduling upcoming labs and even talking through top concerns so a patient's doctor can prepare for their visit before they enter the exam room. AI agents can also handle the back-office phone calls, which present their own pricey challenges. During Medicare Advantage reverification season—from January 1 to March 31—health care organizations staff seasonal workers to handle heightened call volumes as they confirm patients' insurance plans. Enter machines, which have a higher tolerance for hold music than the average human being. Tech company Infinitus deploys AI agents to help alleviate the pressure on health care call centers, especially during busy seasons. Last year, the company's AI agents spent more than 1.4 million minutes waiting on hold, CEO Ankit Jain told Newsweek. This January alone, they spent more than 2 million minutes navigating interactive voice response systems (the more archaic version of a robotic call assistant, known for asking callers to "press one if you are an existing patient, press two if you are a pharmacist, press three if ..."). Agentic AI is far savvier, according to Jain and other solutions developers. While researching for this article, Newsweek's health care editor spoke with two AI agents and did not feel inclined to yell, "I need to speak to a representative!" "The conversational AI voice platform that we have built is extremely natural, extremely conversational, and it's akin to the ones that you would have if a human picked up right away," Jain said. Does agentic AI hallucinate? If agentic AI is going to be carrying conversations and informing doctor's decisions, it needs to meet the same standards as a call center representative or a board-certified physician. Although numerous studies have examined generative AI for hallucination, there isn't extensive data on agentic AI. On April 24, Infinitus launched AI agents that it "guarantees" are hallucination-free. Newsweek asked the company's technology lead, Shyam Rajagopalan, how he could be sure. The company's AI agents are confined to hyper-specific sets of data, according to Rajagopalan. For example, if it's calling to verify a patient's information, it will access that individual patient's information—not information from every patient within the health care system. "Because I've constrained the space to only be relevant for this particular patient, [the agent] will never be able to tell you a different patient's birthday or a different patient's diagnosis," he said. Color Health—a health tech company focused on cancer care solutions—is also working to reduce AI hallucinations by using agentic models. It developed a "large language expert" that merges the strengths of an LLM with the structure of an expert system. Unlike traditional LLMs, which can invent plausible-sounding (but incorrect) outputs when faced with ambiguity, the LLE forces reasoning through structured clinical decision factors (the individual yes/no questions that an AI system parses from clinical guidelines) and Boolean formulas (the strict rules for combining the answers to those yes/no questions into a final recommendation). Since the LLM's role is limited to answering specific questions rather than generating broad narratives, errors are easier for the model to catch and correct, according to a recent study from the company. "Agentic AI goes beyond generative AI with the proactive performance of tasks," Othman Laraki, CEO of Color Health, told Newsweek. "While generative AI creates content by learning from different data sources and patterns, agentic AI is an autonomous, decision-making technology that takes action based upon its learnings." Is agentic AI going to replace generative AI? The future will include both generative and agentic AI, according to Gerhart and her colleague Sean McGunigal, Epic's director of AI. "There are going to be cases where the simpler forms of AI make sense, especially if we look at it from a compute-saving or cost-saving perspective," McGunigal told Newsweek. "If we don't need the heavier firepower of an agent, we won't go that route—but I think you will see more and more automation in the form of agents." We shouldn't think of agentic AI as an evolution of generative AI, per Eizenberg. It's something entirely different—not a system upgrade, but a stand-alone invention, set apart by the agents' ability to connect with one another. "An LLM is a transformer, the enabling tool to talk to people or reason or make decisions," Eizenberg said. "But it isn't software architecture. Agentic AI gives us ways to build that we never had before." Is agentic AI going to replace humans? Yes and no. AI agents may cut down on call center staff, but it's unlikely that they'll ever stand in as your doctor. Three health system and AI researchers—including Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute—explored the question in an April comment for the academic journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. "As AI continues to advance, physician-independent workflows are likely to emerge in certain areas of health care," the authors said. "These workflows may be driven primarily by collaborations between clinical and operational AI agents and may streamline processes, optimize resource utilization and improve patient outcomes." But these physician-independent workflows "will not be suitable" for other areas of health care, such as complex cases and rare diseases, according to the authors. In these instances, AI agents can still support physicians by offering insights and optimizing workflows. Doctors' roles have evolved as the health care industry has grown more complex. Some physicians, like Gerhart, are optimistic that AI agents could assume some of that work to help provide more thorough, comprehensive patient care. "When I think about what it means to be a doctor in the future, it's not only doing individual workflows and only knowing medical knowledge," Gerhart said. "It's knowing how to manage and give the best care. So I'm hopeful that my team of care coordinators and AI agents can work together to make sure that the patient actually gets everything they need done at the appointment, their population health is taken care of, their family dynamics are considered." "It's really this opportunity to reimagine what medicine can be, and the extent of medicine that you can do, with the new tools that you have."
