In recent years, Medtech’s been on healthcare’s mind. How can we truly harness it to provide best practices for both practitioners and patients? How can it really pave the way for better outcomes and encourage collaboration?

To answer these questions and more, we welcome Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram Founder and CEO of Proximie. Dr Nadine is a powerhouse within the healthcare industry known and recognised for her innovatory approach to transforming how clinicians collaborate through Proximie. Born out the need to transition from analogue to digital to truly enable global collaboration, Proximie allows clinicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any operating room or cath lab from anywhere in the world.

In this podcast episode, we chat with Mohamed Al Mheiri, Director of Health Tourism Department at Dubai Health Authority (DHA), who shares insights into the emirate's attraction to international health travellers, from wellness to tech and innovation. 

DHA provides a quality healthcare system in Dubai by setting and ensuring policies and strategies for healthcare in public and private hospitals and clinics in Dubai.

Our latest Omnia Health Magazine furthermore looks at healthcare innovations in the Americas ahead of the upcoming Florida International Medical Expo (FIME). We share more on what the edition contains, from NFTs to hospital ships.

We also look at longevity in the UAE and aphasia – a disorder that hit the headlines recently because of a Hollywood household name.

Our latest Omnia Health Magazine furthermore offers updates on emerging healthcare technologies through exclusive interviews. They include 8chill Inc, whose founder and CEO shared insights into the metaverse.

NABIDH, as he explains, is a world-class health information exchange that securely integrates or unifies patient data from all public and private facilities in Dubai, resulting in improved quality and patient safety, reduced cost and evidence-based care. With more than 3,000 health facilities in Dubai, NABIDH will usher in an era of smoother and more efficient healthcare via a single interface.

A new report from Omnia Health furthermore reveals insights shared by healthcare leaders speaking at Arab Health 2022 in January.

New reports from Omnia Health furthermore reveal insights shared by healthcare leaders participating at Africa Health and Patient Safety virtual events.

Reports from Omnia Health furthermore reveal insights into healthcare transformation offered by healthcare leaders - including transformation in Saudi Arabia, as shared by KPMG Saudi Arabia - and expectations for government spending in healthcare. 

Dr Aria Fallah practices at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, and sees patients at the UCLA Health paediatrics office in Manhattan Beach.

He is board-certified in neurosurgery by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and board-certified by the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Mubadala Healthcare's National Reference Laboratory (NRL), focused on increasing the quality, spectrum, coverage and efficiency of lab testing in the UAE and region, last year introduced an advanced virus-detection system and adopted new technology for delivering test results in record time.

In this last Patient Talk episode, we chat with Dr. James Donnelly, Technical Director at National Reference Laboratory (NRL), to uncover more about how NRL responded to the pandemic and how they are innovating. 

In this latest Patient Talk episode we uncover how his robotics solutions with radiology: offer a minimally invasive future, taking patients away from the operating room and enabling alternative, tailored treatments to surgery; target lesions smaller than 1mm; and benefit patients in rural China, Africa and India.

In this latest Patient Talk podcast episode we chat with David Fischel, Chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis, a US-based robotic technologies company in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, to learn about robotic surgery and how the physician’s role is changing. In an engaging half hour conversation, Fischel sheds light on telerobotics, automation, big data and more. 

Dr Agrawal is Professor of Surgery; Chief, Section of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery; and Director, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at UChicago Medicine.

Recently in the Middle East, for example, Northern Irish company Randox Laboratories was chosen by laboratory network Pure Health to screen airline passengers arriving in the UAE for COVID-19. In this latest Patient Talk podcast, Invest Northern Ireland's Paul Toner explains to Omnia Health Insights staff why healthcare businesses in the Middle East should consider Northern Ireland expertise for their next collaboration. 

In Africa in particular, maternal checkups and child vaccinations have fallen because many people fear catching the disease at clinics and hospitals.

In this episode Prof Salome Maswime, Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town and Omnia Health Live Africa speaker, shares her perspective on the problem.

Prof Maswime is recognised as a maternal health and global surgery expert because of her research contributions on caesarean sections. She is an advocate for women’s health rights, and equity in surgical and maternal care. She is also an advisor and consultant to several institutions.

Recently she was announced as one of the World Economic Forum’s Class of 2020 Young Scientists, a group at the forefront of scientific discovery.

In this episode, Dr Ankit Bharat, Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Northwestern Memorial, reveals the risks and challenges involved in performing the complex surgery on abnormal anatomy, described as "charred", "fused" and "overcooked steak", and what others may learn from his experiences. This episode was recorded in partnership with Northwestern Medicine.

In this episode, Professor Ciaran O’Boyle, Director of the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health in Ireland, reveals coping strategies for healthcare personnel and healthcare leadership, the type of authentic leadership that is required in current times, and how the very nature of healthcare itself needs to change in a rapidly changing and complex world.

This episode was recorded in partnership with OBIX Middle East.

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One such business is Leader Healthcare Group, an international medical equipment supplier headquartered in Dubai, caught in between Asia where the disease originated and epicentres that include Europe, the Americas and Africa. 

In episode 3 of our new Patient Talk Podcast, we speak with CEO Sukhdeep Sachdev to hear how his business responded to the pandemic in the UAE and globally, including challenges faced, and how he believes healthcare will look going forward.