Dubai: As part of its participation in the UAE Innovation Month 2018, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) displayed the ‘Salem Innovative Centre’, the “first fully artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous medical fitness centre in the region”.
The centre is the first of its kind to utilise AI and Internet of Things (IoT) in providing medical fitness and health occupation screening services.
Maisa Al Bustani, director of DHA’s medical fitness services department, said the new centre aims to provide medical fitness and occupational screening services using AI without any human intervention, providing a one-stop destination for all medical fitness tests required for completing their employment visa.
She added that the centre uses the latest AI technology to identify the customer through their facial and iris print. It then conducts the tests using a specialised robot. After the tests are completed, the system automatically sends the results to the parties concerned in a secure way. Customers can make payments via smart channels, such as Apple pay, Samsung pay, mPay and ePay.
Also, instead of taking the vital measurements of customers manually (such as BMI, weight and height), the centre uses a smart scale machine that takes all these measurements automatically as soon as the customer steps on the scale and sends the information to the Salem system electronically.
Al Bustani said the service, which is paperless, requires no data entry and hence “has no errors”, is the first autonomous government service, and was launched in line with the UAE leadership’s vision of using AI in serving the public to achieve customer satisfaction among the residents of Dubai.
Dr Fadi Hatamleh, CEO Of Consol Gulf, which is the DHA’s strategic technology partner for the centre, said the partnership paves the way to the adoption of AI and IoT in every aspect of the medical industry, reducing costs and improving services.
