Abu Dhabi: Private hospital groups in Abu Dhabi are turning to AI to take over documentation and administrative work, so doctors can spend consultations talking with patients instead of typing.

“We are currently building a new patient journey which allows the doctor to spend a lot more time engaged in a meaningful conversation with the patient vs behind a computer screen,” Christopher Habib, Chief Strategy Officer at NMC Healthcare, told Gulf News at the Future Health Summit 2026.

For Habib, the technology is a means to an end. “AI itself is not the objective. The objective is a patient spending less time dealing with administration, a clinician spending more time with their patient,” he said, highlighting the importance of the right information being available when clinical decisions are made, to provide tailor-made care to the patients.

He was clear about where AI sits in the clinical picture.

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