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TEFCA Crosses a Volume Threshold That Public Health Data Exchange Needed
TEFCA Crosses a Volume Threshold That Public Health Data Exchange Needed
Dr. Dereck Mush, MD, MBA
What they do
On November 10, 2026, the Department of Health Abu Dhabi and M42's Abu Dhabi Health Data Services announced an AI Physician Assistant within Malaffi. Powered by Ossi, M42's AI Clinical Platform, and hosted on Azure in the UAE, it retrieves relevant records, summarizes histories and answers physician queries under approved access permissions. Malaffi reports more than 14 million patients and more than four billion clinical records. Clinical assessment and decisions remain physicians' responsibility.
The record
- Vertical
- Health Data Infrastructure
- Sub-segment
- Health information exchange
- Product type
- Platform software
- Stage
- Headquarters
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Region
- Middle East & Africa
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Total funding
- Undisclosed
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