Black Book Annual Report: UAE Among Leaders Of Healthcare Digitalization

Last month, Black Book – a healthcare-focused market research and public opinion company – published a comprehensive 2025 Black Book of Global Healthcare IT 500-page report analyzing recent milestones and future prospects of the global healthcare industry's digital transformation.

The United Arab Emirates was defined as one of the leading countries in the Middle East region. The report highlights the country's crucial achievements in digital technology integration, especially in the field of EMR systems.

Let's take a brief walk through the main insights.

Global Adoption

Black Book report suggests that recent years have been incredibly productive for UAE's digital healthcare integration due to government initiatives and competent management of local health facilities. At the beginning of 2024, UAE health authorities, including the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Health-Abu Dhabi, and Dhabi Health Authority, completed the full integration between local Health Information Exchange platforms – Riayati, NABIDH and Malaffi systems.

According to the recent statistics available in the open sources, there are the following number of clinics and hospitals in the country with integrated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software:

Still, it's important to note that integration is not fully completed – some emirates have clinics without EMR integration – and the adoption process will be completed in a few years. And Remedico.app is constantly standing at the forefront of this trend, providing dental clinics with a user-friendly and accessible web-based solution.

Business growth

The National Unified Medical Record initiative, in which all healthcare facilities must implement electronic records in their regular practice, significantly boosted UAE digitalization and enchanting related industries, including cutting-edge AI-powered solutions, VR/AR apps, etc.

Thus, Black Book suggested that in 2030, the UAE digital dental market will grow to $4.42 billion – compared to $1.06 billion in 2022.

Who else?

According to the report, the top UAE competitors in the region, in the context of "digital leadership", are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman. These countries have distinctive technological advantages that we will precisely review in the second part of the Black Book Report review.

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