Our CEO, Tariq Al-Mansouri, joined the main stage at the Middle East Health Congress in Dubai this week, participating in a panel titled 'The Patient-Owned Record: Promise, Progress and the Road to Regional Adoption'. The panel brought together health ministry representatives, hospital executives, a health insurance CEO and digital health founders.
The case for patient ownership
Tariq's core argument was straightforward: the healthcare system's most underutilised resource is the patient themselves. When patients have access to their records, understand their results and can share their history seamlessly, they become active participants in their care rather than passive recipients of it. Patient-owned records are not a patient convenience — they are a clinical efficiency tool.
The panel debate
The most contested point was interoperability: should patient-owned records live on a single platform like Looms, or should they be accessible through a government-operated health information exchange? Tariq's position was that these are not mutually exclusive — that patient-first platforms and national exchanges can coexist and, when designed well, reinforce each other.
Full session recording
The full panel discussion is available on the Middle East Health Congress website. Tariq's opening remarks and the Q&A segment are particularly worth watching for anyone interested in the regional health data policy landscape.