UAE Integrates AI Into National Healthcare

The World Health Expo (WHX) opened in Dubai on February 9 and runs through February 12, attracting organisers' estimates of more than 235,000 professional visits and 4,300 exhibitors, with total traffic expected to exceed 270,000 including WHX Labs. UAE health authorities and private firms used WHX 2026 to showcase nine preventative, AI-enabled initiatives from genomic screening and pharmacogenomics to AI-driven population-health tools and VR operations platforms, marking a shift toward system-level deployment.