Abu Dhabi integrates AI physician assistant into Malaffi health information exchange

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has integrated an artificial intelligence (AI) Physician Assistant into Malaffi, the emirate’s Health Information Exchange, in collaboration with M42’s Abu Dhabi Health Data Services (ADHDS).

Announced on 10 November, the integration makes the AI assistant available to physicians across Abu Dhabi. The tool is designed to help clinicians retrieve relevant information from patient records, generate summaries of medical histories and respond to queries, reducing the time spent manually searching through clinical data.

Malaffi holds health information on more than 14 million patients and contains over four billion clinical records. Its data includes clinical documents, allergy information, laboratory results, vital signs, radiology images and diagnostic test results.

The AI assistant is intended to help physicians navigate this information more efficiently and support clinical decision-making. Clinical assessments and decisions remain the responsibility of individual physicians.

The system is powered by Ossi, M42’s AI Clinical Platform, and hosted on Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure in the UAE. Its integration into Malaffi is designed to make AI capabilities available within existing clinical workflows.

ADHDS operates Malaffi and is responsible for integrating the assistant into the platform, providing authorised users with access to its functions in accordance with approved permissions and patient data protection requirements.

The implementation will be evaluated, with findings and feedback from physicians informing subsequent development phases.