According to WAM, Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health (DoH) has put a Malaffi AI assistant in the hands of every physician in the emirate.
WAM reports that doctors can use it to pull details from a patient’s medical record, generate a concise summary of their health history, and get answers to questions about it. The aim is to reduce the time spent searching for information by hand, which leaves more room for patient care.
For readers outside the Gulf, Malaffi (Arabic for “my file”) is the shared system that lets Abu Dhabi’s hospitals and clinics see the same patient record. DoH launched it in 2019 as the region’s first health information exchange, and Abu Dhabi Health Data Services (ADHDS), a company of the healthcare group M42, runs it. The assistant draws on that scale: health information for more than 14 million patients and over four billion clinical records. The records include allergy information, lab results, vital signs, and radiology images.
the new assistant gives physicians an additional practical tool to make better use of this data in their daily work.
Kareem Shahin, CEO, Abu Dhabi Health Data Services
ADHDS says it facilitates access for authorised users, “while maintaining data protection requirements and approved access permissions.” M42 will keep developing and evaluating the assistant with healthcare professionals, “preserving the physician’s central role in reviewing information and making clinical decisions.” The announcement gives no figures on time saved or accuracy, and it’s unclear which AI model powers it.
It isn’t Malaffi’s first brush with AI. DoH earlier added a Patient Risk Profile for authorised doctors, which uses machine learning to score a patient’s risk of conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and stroke. The rollout also follows Abu Dhabi’s Machine-Readable Government launch with OpenAI, where AI checks routine permits against the emirate’s rules while officials keep the final say.
Both projects leave the final call with a person. M42 has promised an evaluation with healthcare professionals, but the announcement doesn’t say when it will report.
