GenAI in Education & Healthcare: UAE Embraces Transformation

The UAE has always been at the forefront of technological advancements, continuously pushing boundaries to rev up its education and healthcare sectors. Recently, the country, like many others, has begun to embrace generative artificial intelligence (GenAI ), a technology poised to revolutionize these fields.?

GenAI in UAE’s Education Sector

Students in the UAE are some of the most frequent users of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. A global study conducted by Anthology (an education solution provider) reveals that nearly 32% of surveyed students say they utilize these GenAI tools weekly, and UAE students top the list for the adoption of GenAI among their peers in the UK and the US.?

The study also says that about 36% of UAE students are highly comfortable using AI chatbots for quick answers to their queries. They even recognize AI’s collaborative potential, with 40% of students believing it will boost student engagement and interactivity. Furthermore, 38% of UAE student respondents anticipate that GenAI can deliver personalized learning experiences.

Plus, a third of the UAE university leaders acknowledge that AI tools can enhance higher education, primarily focusing on increasing efficiencies for the instructors, particularly in course building (33%) and curating assessment questions (31%) .???

Moreover, Unesco shared detailed guidelines for integrating AI into curricula across K-12 levels, listing the UAE Technology Subject Framework. With this, the country intends to embed AI-based learning at elementary, middle, and high school levels.?

UAE’s Strategic AI Skill Development Initiative

The UAE has already set in motion its national-level upskilling for AI agenda, with efforts spanning training summer camps for school students across levels, certificates in AI skills for vocational and technical students at Higher Colleges of Technology, and many bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes where students can study AI.

The country has 24 institutions offering AI-related degrees, including MBZUAI, which offers graduate programs with financial incentives to advance the national AI agenda. Beyond formal degrees, organizations like the Higher Colleges of Technology and Dubai Future Foundation, partnering with Ecole 42 Paris, are already offering various AI upskilling opportunities to students as young as 10, college students, and more.

However, embedding AI-related subjects, including data literacy, computer science, and ethics, early into the school curricula and deploying GenAI to accelerate learning and teaching requires streamlining national economic and human development strategies and educational and business policy, along with effective coordination and execution. After a series of successes, this seems to be UAE’s future challenge and one that it’s ready to meet in the eye.

UAE’s Leap in Healthcare with GenAI?

The swift adoption of AI has revolutionized the healthcare industry, and leveraging its power the Middle East healthcare segment is currently manifesting an integration of AI technologies to streamline processes, uplift diagnostic precision, and optimize resource utilization. They’ve, recently, heavily invested in implementing AI to transform healthcare services.

Emirates Health Services (EHS) AI Transformation

Emirates Health Services, which manages UAE’s health and wellness, and Oracle Health have started working on AI initiatives that are currently underway in the health system.

Emirates Health Services was established to help enhance the efficiency of the UAE’s federal health sector by extending healthcare and treatment services, taking preventive measures, fighting epidemics and diseases, and achieving sustainable development of healthcare in the country. EHS runs over 130 facilities, and the health system serves more than 3 million patient visits each year.?

Oracle’s Contributions to AI-Driven EHS Advancements

The Oracle Health team works closely with EHS to help ensure accurate and prompt data-driven solutions to satiate their population’s requirements.

It’s been a decade since EHS began using Oracle Health’s EHR for innovations and pioneering several transformative projects with the latest technology. These include backing an AI-driven sustainability program, GenAI pilot, and many machine learning models. All of these facilitate patient satisfaction and more innovative care to help improve overall health outcomes.?

To keep themselves at pace with the latest healthcare technology, they are piloting the adoption of GenAI at EHS. It’s an effort to enhance information collection and reporting efficiency for quicker decision-making, smarter data analysis, and generating better contextual insights stemming from huge volumes of complex data. With its ability to produce various types of content, including text, imagery, audio, and synthetic data, GenAI is transforming healthcare and all its associated segments , like patient care, treatment plans, facility operations, drug discovery, and more.?

How is Oracle’s Gen AI helping revolutionize the EHS healthcare system??

Oracle’s GenAI-powered Digital Assistant is an intelligent assistant that supports users in querying analytics or statistical questions through voice and text commands to gain real-time insights. The pilot project is a first-of-its-kind in the region, using GenAI and conversational AI capabilities on actual analytics and statistical healthcare data to metamorphose the way valuable insights are extracted from heaps of health data. It provides multilingual support, minimizes massive efforts for manual data analysis, and offers profound data-driven decision support.

Wrapping Up

The UAE is committed to integrate generative AI into education and healthcare, harnessing the power of AI tools to set a benchmark for personalized learning and innovative healthcare solutions worldwide. These advancements promise to refine education and healthcare services’ quality and also position the UAE as a leader in AI-driven transformation.

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