Industry Findings: The UAE’s national AI and digital-health frameworks are re-aligning procurement toward devices that are data-ready and governance-compliant. The UAE Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Jun-2024) and follow-on federal coordination require stronger provenance, model governance and data interoperability from device vendors, shifting buyer preference to suppliers who can demonstrate policy-aligned AI governance and integration roadmaps. This materially increases the procurement premium on validated, auditable solutions.
Industry Progression: Momentum crystallised when Abu Dhabi’s health authorities and Philips signed a major MoU to advance AI-enabled imaging and data exchange on Malaffi (Oct-2024). That partnership is a practical signal that regulators and systems will prioritise devices and monitoring platforms that plug into regional HIEs and meet locality-specific AI governance rules — accelerating procurement pilots and shortening validation-to-deployment cycles for compliant vendors.
Industry Player Insights: UAE’s industry path is being shaped by Philips Healthcare, Siemens Healthineers, GE HealthCare, and Gulf Medical Company etc. Procurement behaviour is already reflecting national policy: Emirates Health Services adopted an AI management policy (Feb-2025) and several pilot procurements favour Philips’ image-exchange integrations (Oct-2024). Vendors that present clear AI governance, local integration plans and regional service footprints now gain measurable selection advantages in large Emirate tenders.