U.A.E Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too... Archana Menon • 02 June, 2016 DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt
Regional MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,... Willam Altman • 29 May, 2016 startup health digital health MEMakersGE
Jordan Hikma Pharmaceuticals launches $30M digital health venture fund in Amman Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics... Samuel Wendel • 24 April, 2016 Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical MEMakersGE
Egypt Startups want to tackle Egyptian health, but lack money Ahmed Abu ElHaz CEO of Shezlong pitching at BDL2015 accelerate in Beirut. (Image via Shezlong) Egypt is fertile ground for... Eman Mostafa • 25 April, 2016 Otlob Doctor MEMakersGE shezlong
Palestine Exoskeleton gives the gift of movement AZR’s exoskeleton prototype is being tested in the lab. (Images via AZR Team) Three Birzeit University students in the West Bank have b... Rafat Abushaban • 14 February, 2016 Handicapped Exoskeleton Birzeit University
Regional 6 areas of healthcare to watch in GCC Healthcare spending in the GCC is going to grow exponentially, says a new EY report. Global professional services firm EY is predicting... Lucy Knight • 11 February, 2016 Vezeeta Gravilog MEMakers
Regional MENA startups are taking on women’s health Women are vastly underserved by healthcare systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Limited access to high-quality and... Willam Altman • 07 February, 2016 dieti supermama shezlong
U.A.E Physicians and the future with 3D printing How soon before the doctors of the Middle East embrace the possibilities of 3D printing? (Images via Jacqueline Sofia) Covering everything... Jacqueline Sofia • 01 February, 2016 Arab Health Exhibition MEMakers AlemHealth
Regional Offline healthcare going online in MENA Not enough time for exercise? Perhaps apps might be of use. (Image via core0.staticworld.net) Healthcare. An increasingly diverse and... Pamela Kesrouani • 03 March, 2016 Heathcare Fittpass The Wellness Log
Regional Electronic medical services: health risks or new hope? Checking your online pulse. (Image via Vanguard Communications) As the world commemorates World Cancer Day every February 4, cancer... Ahmed Gabr • 26 January, 2016 ehealth Cancer digital health care
Regional How to leverage healthcare analytics to control healthcare costs [Opinion] Healthcare costs directly impact an SME’s bottom line and overall competitiveness. Skyrocketing healthcare costs in the United... Hari Kesavan - Anchshana Haridas • 07 January, 2016 healthcare analytics MEMakers Healthcare
Jordan Foodlve recalculates the food equation All your ingredients neatly packaged and in one place. (Images via Foodlve) Cooking is becoming less appealing as technology combined... Tala El Issa • 07 December, 2015 The Cherry Share Recipes Foodlve
Lebanon An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N... MIT Technology Review • 03 November, 2015 MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication
Regional London calling A Lebanese, a Briton, a Dutchman and an Italian walk into a London investment firm. They bond over hip hop. One year later they launch a... Lucy Knight • 21 October, 2015 Braci Hoxton Ventures Slidr
U.A.E Alemhealth brings accurate and timely healthcare diagnosis to developing countries In order to link underserved patients in developing countries with top radiologists from around the world, Alemhealth, provides... Maya Rahal • 29 October, 2015 M+M Minds+Machines MEMakers
Palestine This startup wants to modernize vaccination management While waiting at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Hafeth Zughayer noticed parents coming in and arguing with the nurses after learning... Rafat Abushaban • 23 September, 2015 Jerusalem Universal Baby Vaccinations digital health care
Global Telemedicine in the Middle East, the time is now The time is now. (Image via CommsMEA) In 2001, a team of French and American physicians in New York made history by remotely... Natasha D'Souza • 02 September, 2015 digital health care MEMakers AlemHealth
Jordan Med-tech vying for attention in Jordan A slip of the finger, or a movement too quick, and a healthcare professional can find themselves with a needlestick injury. That is what... Lucy Knight • 31 August, 2015 iPark Jordan medical hardware innovation digital health care
Regional Augmented reality and medicine, is the Middle East ready? After-surgery care in developing countries or remote locations can often be an unknown quantity, but the use of augmented reality during... Lucy Knight • 20 August, 2015 InGlove VITAAX MEMakers
Egypt InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in... Eman Mostafa • 19 August, 2015 family medicine ehealth InfoMed
Regional Africa gets its first digital health accelerator Ampion's cofounders Fabian-Carlos Guhl and Ifeanyi Oteh launch their new health-tech accelerator. (Image via Ampion) If there’s one c... Aline Mayard • 05 August, 2015 ehealth digital health care Ampion
Regional Beauty is in the eye of the app-holder No smartphones here. Advances have been made in the beauty industry also. (Image via Getty Images) According to the latest statistics by... Rachel McArthur • 19 July, 2015 Spoilee Vaniday BEEM
Global Online symptom checkers failed one test, but aren’t out of the game yet Is a symptom checker app ready to replace a real-life doctor? (Image via iStock) A recent audit by Harvard Medical School... Roland Daher • 16 July, 2015 Symptom Checker Harvard Medical School MEMakers
Egypt Data-driven medicine in MENA: a startup’s long wait In 2010, four men began preparing for what they thought would be the exciting, and imminent, future of genetic analysis in the Middle... Rachel Williamson • 10 June, 2015 Mohamed Aboueldhoda Illumina Genomics