HBKiCare to sponsor Middle East Telehealth Technologies Forum
The forum will bring together leading healthcare companies in the Middle East to share their experiences, lessons learned, and to discuss opportunities and digital health challenges during COVID-19 pandemic
HBKiCare a pioneering developer of IoT (Internet of Things) software for remote health monitoring, will sponsor the leading Middle East Telehealth Technologies Forum. HBKiCare was launched recently by Hamad Bin Khalifa Department of Projects (HBK DOP) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) together with its partner, SURE Universal, a leading software developer from Israel specialising in remote patient monitoring.
With the COVID-19 driven tsunami in the telehealth sector, the Middle East Telehealth Technologies Forum brings together leading healthcare companies in the Middle East to share their experiences, lessons learned, and to discuss opportunities and digital health challenges.
Anwar Hussein, CEO, HBK DOP, stated, ” We are proud to sponsor this Middle East Telehealth Technology forum and demonstrate a solution for COVID-19 that can benefit the health and well-being of the entire Middle East region.”
Viktor Ariel, CEO, SURE, will give a keynote presentation about HBKiCare’s remote outpatient IOT monitoring solution for COVID-19.
“We are excited to participate in this event and to speak about the importance of remote health monitoring during COVID-19 pandemic in our region,” stated SURE’s CEO, Dr Ariel. “I am proud of our HBKiCare product and our partnership with HBK DOP, which is bringing together new solutions and forging new relationships between Israel and our regional neighbours in the Middle East.”
HBKiCare, was the first joint product launch between an Israeli health-tech company and UAE firm following signing of the historic peace deal. The innovative product, powered by SURE’s technology, provides a Universal Remote Healthcare IOT platform and home care kit enabling continuous outpatient monitoring of wellness with maximum flexibility and affordability.
The HBKiCare platform uses inexpensive off-the-shelf wearable devices and SURE Universal’s software IoT platform to monitor patients at home both before and after treatment for COVID-19. It provides continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as, body temperature, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, heart rate, and even ECG, which comprise an essential COVID-19 monitoring protocol. All the devices have FDA or CE Medical certification and the software delivers routine as well as smart AI-based recommendations to doctors regarding patients’ medical conditions.
