Health Destination

UAE to build Proton Center for Cancer Treatment

The UAE will open this year the Arab region & the Middle East's first hospital offering the less invasive cancer treatment utilizing proton technology. Located in Abu Dhabi, the Proton Center for Cancer Treatment, scheduled to be opened in the last quarter of 2018, will give immense hope to cancer patients as proton technology has proven high success and recovery rate than older traditional methods of treating cancer. The center costing about US$60 billion (AED220 million) is being built by…

Technology

Visual biofeedback technology for physical rehabilitation

“With PhysioSensing you will be able to evaluate the balance in several planes, promote load transfer exercises, evaluate the natural load distribution and perform a high number of therapeutic exercises. In addition to all these features you can also evaluate the plantar pressure by its 1600 sensors distributed in a 40 x 40 cm area,” notes Pedro De Jesus Mendes, one of the founders of Sensing Future Technologies. Physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation uses a variety of techniques to help your…

Features

Digital disruption within healthcare

Effective application of AI, big data, analytics, cloud computing, IoT, and mobile technology can make radical advances in patient care, staff productivity, and operational efficiency, explains Grant Thornton Digital disruption has affected almost every industry across the globe, promising to create further dynamic impact as humans and machines navigate new ways of working. The healthcare industry is not immune to this disruption, in fact, it is experiencing a technological revolution, we are witnessing a shift from traditional to modern tech…

Cover Story

Keeping community at the core

With a humble beginning back in 1975, the award-winning NMC Healthcare believes that healthcare is simply not about detecting, diagnosing, or treating an individual but about helping people lead a wholesome and healthy life. Introduction NMC Healthcare is the UAE's largest private healthcare provider with two main branches of business, NMC Healthcare and NMC Trading. From a one room clinic in Abu Dhabi to a global healthcare enterprise in 40 years, NMC has been chalking out distinct growth strategies that…