Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, addressing challenges in diagnostics, disease prevention, and care delivery. Experts at the inaugural Digital Health & AI Forum during Arab Health 2025 discussed AI’s growing role in enhancing patient outcomes.
The forum, held under the theme ‘Connected Health Solutions: Unlocking the AI and Digital Health Potential’, showcased AI’s impact on modern medicine. AI-driven technologies, including predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms, are helping clinicians gain crucial insights to improve patient care.
Ross Williams, Senior Exhibition Director at Informa Markets, stated, “Arab Health continues to be a global platform for transformative technologies. The Digital Health & AI Forum underscored AI’s potential to reshape patient care. The upcoming Future Health Summit will expand these conversations and explore groundbreaking advancements.”
A study published in JAMA reveals that AI systems can accurately identify diseases from medical images with up to 94% precision. This underscores the growing importance of AI in medical diagnostics.
Dr. David Rhew, Global Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare at Microsoft, shared an example of AI’s potential: “AI applied to retinal images can diagnose diabetic retinopathy and other conditions like cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases. With agentic AI, automated image capture could be deployed in clinics, retail stores, schools, and malls.”
Looking ahead, AI is poised to enhance personalized care, disease prevention, and operational efficiency in healthcare. AI tools are enabling early disease identification, improved decision-making, and optimized resource allocation through risk stratification and data triage.
However, Dr. Rhew emphasized that AI adoption must prioritize efficiency to overcome challenges such as workflow disruptions. “AI that reduces clinician workload, eliminates administrative tasks, and integrates seamlessly into existing systems will be widely adopted,” he explained, highlighting ambient clinician intelligence (ACI) as an example of AI improving clinician efficiency by converting patient-clinician conversations into electronic health records (EHR).
The Digital Health & AI Forum sets the stage for deeper exploration at The Future Health Summit on 30 January 2025, hosted at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. Senior government officials, healthcare executives, and technology leaders from companies like Google, GE Healthcare, Amazon Web Services, and PureHealth will convene to discuss AI’s global impact on healthcare.
Arab Health’s 50th-anniversary celebrations will continue from 28–30 January 2025 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The event will feature over 3,800 exhibitors from more than 70 countries, with an expected attendance of over 60,000 healthcare professionals, reinforcing its role as the region’s largest and most influential healthcare event.