World's first AI Population Health Intelligence platform
Abu Dhabi DoH and Microsoft pioneer AI-powered digital twin for public health
#UAE #GITEXGLOBAL2025 – The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has unveiled the world’s first AI-powered Population Health Intelligence (PHI) platform at GITEX Global 2025, in partnership with Microsoft UAE. The platform is a digital twin of Abu Dhabi’s healthcare ecosystem integrating clinical, lifestyle, and environmental data to forecast health risks, simulate interventions, and guide evidence-based preventive policies. Initial focus areas include obesity and cancer, with the aim of extending healthy life expectancy and reducing disease burden across the emirate.
SO WHAT? – Five years of intensive investment in, and development of Abu Dhabi’s digital health systems have led to this moment. The emirate launched the region’s first Health Information Exchange platform (called Malaffi) in 2020. Today, Malaffi connects Abu Dhabi’s healthcare ecosystem and its patients with 3.5 billion clinical records. In 2024, The DoH in partnership with ADHDS (Abu Dhabi Health Data Services) launched Sahatna, a revolutionary all-in-one healthcare mobile app. The new Population Health Intelligence platform integrate real-time heath data from across Abu Dhabi city, to support chronic disease prevention, early intervention, and health equity for residents.
Some key facts about the new platform:
The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has unveiled the world’s first AI-powered Population Health Intelligence (PHI) platform at GITEX Global 2025, in partnership with Microsoft UAE. Create a digital twin of Abu Dhabi’s healthcare ecosystem, it is the world’s first AI-powered system for population health management at city scale.
The PHI platform integrates diverse data sources into a digital twin that mirrors Abu Dhabi’s healthcare ecosystem in real time. The platform integrates data from clinical records, environmental factors, and lifestyle inputs.
Designed around two pillars: Predict (Insights) and Prevent & Act (Interventions, the system continuously learns to deliver tailored, evidence-based strategies for improving population health outcomes.
AI agents, advanced analytics, and geospatial simulations allow the platform to predict emerging health trends, optimise healthcare resources, and model the effects of policy or clinical interventions before implementation.
According to DoH, initial priority areas for the new platform are obesity and cancer. It will leverage AI-driven analytics to identify high-risk groups early and improve the effectiveness of preventive programmes.
Built on Microsoft’s secure cloud infrastructure, the PHI platform ensures full compliance with Abu Dhabi’s stringent data privacy and governance frameworks.
The launch builds on an MoU signed in April 2025 between DoH and Microsoft during Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, which established the blueprint for a first-of-its-kind AI-powered learning health ecosystem.
The platform supports Abu Dhabi’s long-term goal of becoming the world’s first fully operational “learning health system”, continuously improving healthcare outcomes through AI-led data feedback loops.
The initiative aligns with the emirate’s public health strategy to extend healthy life expectancy, reduce chronic disease rates, and strengthen system resilience through digital transformation.
Visitors to GITEX Global 2025 can explore the PHI system and other intelligent healthcare innovations at the Abu Dhabi Government Pavilion, Hall 19, Stand 20, from 13–17 October 2025.
ZOOM OUT – Abu Dhabi’s launch of the Population Health Intelligence platform aligns with the emirate’s ambition to become a global front-runner in digital and predictive healthcare. Building on its unified Health Information Exchange and large-scale data transformation, the emirate is shifting from reactive care to a proactive model shaping a new era of healthy longevity. In partnership with Microsoft, Abu Dhabi is embedding AI at the core of health governance—creating intelligent systems that continuously learn, adapt, and optimise interventions. At a time when global health systems face growing strain from chronic disease and ageing populations, this initiative positions Abu Dhabi as a living testbed for the future of predictive, personalised, and resilient healthcare management.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]