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Breaking Silos: Why Perioperative Care Must Be Integrated

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 16, 2025

The healthcare industry is changing quickly, and patient-centered, value-based care is becoming more and more important. Perioperative care, or the range of services provided before, during, and following surgery, is one crucial area that is still disjointed. Ineffective perioperative procedures result in higher expenses, worse-than-ideal patient outcomes, and inefficiencies. Healthcare systems need to embrace an integrated perioperative care approach and dismantle silos in order to meet these issues.

Smart Hospitals in the UAE: How Predictive Analytics Is Shaping the Future

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 13, 2025

Backed by ambitious national strategies and cutting-edge technology, the country is rapidly transitioning from traditional care models to intelligent, data-driven systems. At the heart of this evolution is predictive analytics, a game-changing capability that’s transforming how hospitals prevent disease, treat patients, and manage operations.

From Data to Diagnosis: Closing the Gap in Men’s Preventive Care

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 12, 2025

Men are frequently situated at the bottom of the health hierarchy. Almost 60% of people rarely go to the doctor, and when they do, it's usually for an urgent matter. This implies that long-term care planning, early interventions, and preventive screenings frequently get lost in the system.

Perioperative Metrics that Matter: Aligning Surgery with Value-Based Outcomes

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 9, 2025

As the healthcare industry continues to transition from fee-for-service to value-based care, hospitals and health systems are under pressure to provide high-quality clinical outcomes economically and efficiently. This is particularly crucial in the perioperative sector, which accounts for 40–60% of a hospital's total revenue and up to 70% of its expenses.

Public-Private Partnerships in UAE Healthcare: Strategic Playbooks for Success

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 6, 2025

The UAE’s healthcare sector is undergoing a dynamic transformation, fueled by bold national visions, rapid population growth, and a determination to be a global benchmark for high-quality, tech-driven care. At the heart of this evolution is a game-changing model: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).

From Manual to Modular: The Digital Makeover of Pre-to-Post-Op Workflows

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 5, 2025

Surgery is frequently viewed as a single, crucial procedure. But in reality, it’s a complex, multi-faceted journey, from initial evaluation to full recovery, that involves countless handoffs, systems, and decisions. And despite advances in surgical techniques, the workflows that support this journey remain outdated.

More Than Just a Headache: Rethinking Migraine Management with Predictive Analytics

By Ibtisam Shiraz | June 2, 2025

Migraines are often shrugged off as just a headache. But for over 1 billion people worldwide, they are anything but normal.

From Volume to Value: Navigating the Shift to Value-Based Care in 2025

By Ibtisam Shiraz | May 29, 2025

Value-based care (VBC) is an administrative mandate in 2025 rather than an emergent structure. Healthcare organisations have an opportunity and a pressing need to change when old fee-for-service (FFS) models are replaced with systems that put results before volume. Care delivery, measurement, and reimbursement are all changing as a result of this shift, which is being driven by patient expectations, policy changes, and rising costs.

Mental Health Equity: Bridging Gaps with Data-Driven, Community-Based Care

By Ibtisam Shiraz | May 27, 2025

Despite the fact that 1 in 5 adults in the nation experiences a mental health issue annually, less than half of them get the assistance they require. The problem is systemic rather than merely clinical. Inequity in an already tense mental health environment is exacerbated by persistent disparities in access, outcomes, and cultural relevance that affect marginalised people.

Breaking Bias: Redesigning Healthcare Systems to Center Women’s Needs

By Ibtisam Shiraz | May 22, 2025

The systemic marginalisation of women's health demands in healthcare design, delivery, and data is a fact that is being ignored in the fight for health justice. The systems intended to care for women frequently fail, even though they comprise more than half of the world's population and make 80% of healthcare choices in households