Saudi Arabia’s push for digitalization and its commitment to health care have resulted in burgeoning interest from global healthtech companies. UK-based healthtech platform Proximie, with $80 million in funding, is strengthening its presence in Saudi Arabia through strategic partnerships aimed at supporting the country’s health care system. “Proximie’s mission is to deliver a connected surgical platform to help provide quality surgical care and drive optimal performance for every health care system,” said Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, CEO and founder of Proximie, in an interview with Arab News. She noted that Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 initiative, particularly the Ministry of Health’s directives, has prioritized improving access to health care across the Kingdom. “Proximie has a key role in helping the ministry meet this objective, via partnerships with local resellers in the Kingdom,” she explained. Proximie empowers the SEHA Virtual Hospital to overcome distance barriers, enhance patient safety, and share expertise digitally among over 130 hospitals. Hachach-Haram said there has already been significant success. “Proximie has facilitated a cardiology intervention from Riyadh for a patient in Tabuk — effectively saving the patient’s life.” Nadine Hachach-Haram is the 2018 TAKREEM Foundation Young Entrepreneur Laureate. As a surgeon, lecturer and NHS clinical entrepreneur, she built on her passion for innovation, education and global surgery to co-found Proximie: an augmented reality platform that allows doctors to virtually transport themselves into any operating room, anywhere in the world. Proximie gives surgeons the ability to interact visually and practically with an operation, from start to finish. Its aim is to provide safe, accessible and cost-effective surgery to every patient around the world.Proximie, operating in Beirut, London, and Boston, has received significant success with early adoption by major medical institutions and charitable organizations and has been featured in the world media.

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