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Al Etihad
21-07-2025
- Health
- Al Etihad
AI, advanced technology accelerate stroke diagnosis, treatment at CCAD
22 July 2025 00:16 SARA ALZAABI (ABU DHABI)Artificial intelligence and advanced technology are redefining stroke care. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), one of the emirate's centres of excellence for stroke, is leveraging the latest innovations to accelerate diagnosis and its rapid brain scans, cutting-edge platforms, and a highly coordinated team, CCAD is setting the 'gold standard' when it comes to handling cases of stroke, according to Dr. Victoria Ann Mifsud, a staff physician at the Neurology Department of CCAD's Neurological Institute. One of the institute's most transformative tool is RapidAI, 'an artificial intelligence system that processes brain scans with extraordinary speed and accuracy', Dr. Mifsud told Aletihad . 'It helps our physicians quickly determine which patients are candidates for life-saving interventions such as thrombolysis or thrombectomy.'This tool is particularly significant given that, in cases of stroke, 'every second truly counts'.The hospital also uses the Artis Icono system, a sophisticated neuro-interventional platform that ensures precision in procedures such as clot removal.'Our entire stroke pathway - from ambulance arrival to emergency imaging, treatment, and recovery planning - is built for integration and speed. This model of care is unique in the region and is increasingly becoming the gold standard,' she added. Dr. Seby John, another staff physician at the Neurology Department, told Aletihad that the hospital's success also lies in its highly coordinated team. 'From the moment a patient arrives at the emergency department, a highly trained multidisciplinary team activates stroke-specific protocols. This includes emergency physicians, neurologists, neurointerventionalists, radiologists, anesthetists, and stroke-trained nurses - all working together in real time,' Dr. John stabilised, patients transition into an integrated rehabilitation phase.'A second team, including rehabilitation physicians, therapists, nurses, and case managers, develops an individualised care plan,' he is a life-saving approach, the specialist said. 'It improves recovery, reduces complications, and helps patients regain independence with confidence and dignity.' Supporting Abu Dhabi's Healthcare VisionAdvancing its capabilities and keeping pace with healthcare innovations are part of CCAD's broader strategy in support of Abu Dhabi's long-term goals. 'Our designation (as a Stroke Centre of Excellence) is a testament to our rigorous standards across clinical outcomes, patient safety, experience, innovation, and caregiver competency,' said Dr. goal is to ensure not only a patient's survival but meaningful recovery, she said.'This long-term perspective – of reducing risk, restoring function, and supporting quality of life – is at the heart of Abu Dhabi's patient-first healthcare vision.'In the Year of Community, CCAD is prioritising stroke awareness, highlighting that once it strikes, every second counts – and any delay 'could make the difference between recovery and long-term disability'.CCAD treats approximately 1,100 stroke cases annually and nearly 40% of these patients are under the age of 50, Dr. Misfud said.'This statistic underscores the increasing impact of stroke on younger populations in the UAE,' she of the common risk factors are largely preventable with a shift to healthier lifestyles, she added.'Among the most critical are uncontrolled high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, and a sedentary lifestyle. Many of these factors are lifestyle-driven and, with awareness and regular medical follow-up, can be effectively controlled or reversed.'When a stroke occurs, immediate action is critical; hence, CCAD has been reaching out to the community with a clear goal: To help the public recognise the early signs of hospital has presented the BE FAST acronym, a simple guide to help people identify symptoms: Balance issues, Eye or vision changes, Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties, and Time to call emergency services.'We have partnered with Ma'an and the Department of Community Development to reach people where they are: schools, malls, and workplaces,' said Dr. John. 'We support the UAE's national strategy for neurological care and stroke prevention through advanced care, national data efforts, medical education, and public campaigns. These combined efforts help shape a more proactive and coordinated approach to stroke care across the country.' Source: Aletihad - Abu Dhabi
Forbes
24-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
From Back Office To Brain Trust: Why GCCs Need To Become AI Innovation Engines
Gaurav Aggarwal, Senior Vice President at Onix, Global Lead, Data & AI Solutions Engineering. India's global capability centers (GCCs) are light years from where they started life as low-cost delivery centers. They now occupy a position of leadership at the intersection of enterprise retransformation and technological rebirth. As the era of AI-born business speeds up, GCCs come to a critical juncture: Will they drive change to intelligence-driven innovation or be left in the dust? In order to survive this new world, GCCs will have to transform from execution machines to AI-fueled centers of innovation. The potential is not abstract—it's already taking shape, and India is particularly well-placed to drive it. India's Strategic Advantage: Talent With Traction India's advantage isn't in quantities, but in quality. Indian GCCs now boast more than 160,000 product professionals. No longer are they passive appendages to global operations but serve as active co-creators of value. For example, look at RapidAI: It co-produced real-time stroke care technology from its India center. Or consider Mercari India, which was instrumental in pioneering mobile payments and digital asset platforms. These instances show a broader movement: India is no longer implementing innovation—it is pioneering it. Four Imperatives To Redefine GCCs To maximize AI, GCCs need to reinvent their setup, strategy and capabilities. Here's how the most advanced centers are redirecting: 1. Build capability tracks, not career rracks. Rather than vertical hierarchies, GCCs are enabling cross-disciplinary development in AI engineering, platform design and product strategy, fostering innovation through integrated teams. 2. Co-create IP with business units. GCCs are putting engineers and product leaders in business pods together to co-design roadmaps—not just implement them. This combination brings velocity, pertinence and ingenuity. 3. Institutionalize AI-first centers of excellence. At the forefront of GCCs are codifying their innovation frameworks with results-driven centers of excellence (CoEs) in generative AI, intelligent automation and cyber resilience. These are not think tanks—these are creators of measurable value. 4. Align KPIs with outcomes, not outputs. Legacy delivery metrics are being replaced by impact-based KPIs—like AI model deployment rate, product velocity and innovation cycles with business outcomes. The AI-First Operating Playbook GCCs at the forefront of this transformation are adopting a systematic, AI-native model for transformation that entails: • AI-Native Development Environments: Integration of AI across all phases of product delivery from development to test and deployment speeds up and streamlines. • Data As A Product: GCCs are shifting focus from data management to generating monetizable insights-as-a-service through strong governance. • Adaptive Applications: Static platforms are giving way to smart systems that tailor experiences and adapt based on user behavior. Services-as-software are being redesigned as modular, reusable AI building blocks that scale effectively across functions. • Responsible AI Governance: Ethical AI practices, performance dashboards and business-aligned impact metrics are now integrated into GCC operating frameworks from the ground up. While GCCs enjoy significant in-house momentum, many struggle at scale with AI solutions. Poor access to nascent technologies, toolchains and industry patterns is a common roadblock. Here's where specialist system integrators (SIs) play key collaborative partners—never to outsource but to speed things up. A hybrid GCC-SI model can enable businesses to combine profound internal knowledge with external execution speed and expert AI knowledge. Where GCCs Should Cooperate To accelerate impact, GCCs need to collaborate with specialist SIs in these strategic domains: • AI Model Development: For enterprise-level personalization and decision intelligence. • Cybersecurity And Risk: AI-driven threat monitoring for threats, fraud and compliance. • Cloud And MLOps: Scalable infrastructure for continuous AI delivery and monitoring. • Business Process Automation: Intelligent workflows in finance, HR and supply chain. • Industry-Specific AI Solutions: Industry-specific use cases in BFSI, healthcare, retail and more. • Data Ethics And Governance: Fairness, explainability and auditability. • Future-Proofing with Next-Gen AI Readiness: Understanding quantum and edge AI technologies for future-proofing. A Blueprint For Strategic Co-Ownership The future will not be for GCCs that are stuck in legacy models or attempt to scale AI alone. It will be for those that assume ownership of AI strategy and governance, with the ability to scale innovation quickly and responsibly with the help of trusted partners. India's GCCs are poised to lead this transformation, with the market projected to grow from $64.6 billion in FY24 to over $100 billion by FY30. The moment is now to double down on reinvention—because the GCCs that co-create the future will create the enterprises of tomorrow. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Business Wire
28-04-2025
- Health
- Business Wire
Largest Real-World Study of Its Kind Highlights How RapidAI Aids in Identifying Challenging Aneurysms
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RapidAI, the gold standard in neurovascular AI-based clinical decision support and a leader in enterprise radiology solutions, today announced pivotal results from the most extensive real-world study to date on AI for aneurysm detection. Presented at the 2025 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Meeting, the retrospective, single-center study analyzed 11,694 consecutive CTA scans 1, demonstrating how RapidAI's clinically validated platform, Rapid Aneurysm, can enhance diagnostic confidence and consistency, particularly in detecting nuanced or hard-to-visualize intracranial anomalies such as aneurysms when used in conjunction with standard clinical interpretation. RapidAI helped identify nearly 23% more aneurysms than were noted on the original radiology reports. Share 'Detecting aneurysms is inherently challenging, especially in a busy practice when they're subtly positioned,' said Reza Dashti, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery and lead study investigator. 'This study shows how AI can augment clinical expertise and meaningfully advance diagnostic accuracy in real-world settings.' Presented at AANS, with additional analyses available in the abstract, the study is the most extensive retrospective, single-center AI validation for aneurysm detection to date. In the study, RapidAI helped identify nearly 23% more aneurysms than were noted on the original radiology reports. Those additional detections had a median size of 3.9 mm, large enough to warrant intervention in many cases. For those aneurysms ≥ 3mm in size, RapidAI demonstrated stand-out performance, reinforcing the value of its deep clinical AI in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and consistency while also enhancing clinical workflows. In this subset, the platform achieved a sensitivity of 92.5% and a specificity of 96.4%. 'Given the increasing demands on today's radiology teams, this study speaks to the potential of AI to offer meaningful support and capability enhancement to the real-world challenges of manual interpretation,' said David Stoffel, MD, chief business officer at RapidAI. 'This level of diagnostic aid for radiologists not only improves patient outcomes but also holds the potential to reduce downstream costs associated with missed or delayed aneurysm diagnoses.' RapidAI's aneurysm platform combines 3D visualization, growth tracking, and automated measurement, providing clinicians with a comprehensive view and confidence in their decisions. With this study, RapidAI not only demonstrates the value of AI in real-world care but also helps raise the bar for how hospitals and health systems can support their teams with tools for smarter, faster diagnostics. About RapidAI RapidAI is the world leader in AI-driven medical imaging analysis and coordinated care. With the industry's most validated clinical AI platform, we empower care teams to rapidly, precisely, and confidently manage life-threatening conditions. Trusted by thousands of hospitals in 100+ countries, RapidAI delivers the deepest level of clinical decision support on the market to help accelerate the time to treatment and enhance patient outcomes. We go beyond the algorithm to drive care team collaboration and efficiencies that expand access to life-saving interventions. At RapidAI, we establish new standards for care teams and the patients they treat.
Associated Press
28-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Largest Real-World Study of Its Kind Highlights How RapidAI Aids in Identifying Challenging Aneurysms
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 28, 2025-- RapidAI, the gold standard in neurovascular AI-based clinical decision support and a leader in enterprise radiology solutions, today announced pivotal results from the most extensive real-world study to date on AI for aneurysm detection. Presented at the 2025 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Meeting, the retrospective, single-center study analyzed 11,694 consecutive CTA scans 1, demonstrating how RapidAI's clinically validated platform, Rapid Aneurysm, can enhance diagnostic confidence and consistency, particularly in detecting nuanced or hard-to-visualize intracranial anomalies such as aneurysms when used in conjunction with standard clinical interpretation. 'Detecting aneurysms is inherently challenging, especially in a busy practice when they're subtly positioned,' said Reza Dashti, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery and lead study investigator. 'This study shows how AI can augment clinical expertise and meaningfully advance diagnostic accuracy in real-world settings.' Presented at AANS, with additional analyses available in the abstract, the study is the most extensive retrospective, single-center AI validation for aneurysm detection to date. In the study, RapidAI helped identify nearly 23% more aneurysms than were noted on the original radiology reports. Those additional detections had a median size of 3.9 mm, large enough to warrant intervention in many cases. For those aneurysms ≥ 3mm in size, RapidAI demonstrated stand-out performance, reinforcing the value of its deep clinical AI in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and consistency while also enhancing clinical workflows. In this subset, the platform achieved a sensitivity of 92.5% and a specificity of 96.4%. 'Given the increasing demands on today's radiology teams, this study speaks to the potential of AI to offer meaningful support and capability enhancement to the real-world challenges of manual interpretation,' said David Stoffel, MD, chief business officer at RapidAI. 'This level of diagnostic aid for radiologists not only improves patient outcomes but also holds the potential to reduce downstream costs associated with missed or delayed aneurysm diagnoses.' RapidAI's aneurysm platform combines 3D visualization, growth tracking, and automated measurement, providing clinicians with a comprehensive view and confidence in their decisions. With this study, RapidAI not only demonstrates the value of AI in real-world care but also helps raise the bar for how hospitals and health systems can support their teams with tools for smarter, faster diagnostics. About RapidAI RapidAI is the world leader in AI-driven medical imaging analysis and coordinated care. With the industry's most validated clinical AI platform, we empower care teams to rapidly, precisely, and confidently manage life-threatening conditions. Trusted by thousands of hospitals in 100+ countries, RapidAI delivers the deepest level of clinical decision support on the market to help accelerate the time to treatment and enhance patient outcomes. We go beyond the algorithm to drive care team collaboration and efficiencies that expand access to life-saving interventions. At RapidAI, we establish new standards for care teams and the patients they treat. View source version on CONTACT: Media Contact: Jessica Stebing Group Manager, Marketing Communications [email protected] KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE RESEARCH GENERAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE SURGERY CARDIOLOGY NEUROLOGY HEALTH SOURCE: RapidAI Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 04/28/2025 10:40 AM/DISC: 04/28/2025 10:39 AM
Observer
26-03-2025
- Business
- Observer
India is on a hiring binge that tariffs can't stop
BENGALURU, India — In India's most advanced cities, American companies are racing to set up more and bigger offshore campuses: fully staffed offices with high-skilled Indian professionals, performing functions vital to global business. The concentration is most stark in bits of Bengaluru. Apul Nahata of RapidAI, a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company that uses artificial intelligence to interpret brain scans, can look out the window of the office he leads in India and see a 'density of companies' relevant to his work. 'If I walk a half-kilometer, I see Google, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Visa, Samsung, and Amazon right here,' said Nahata, who spent 10 years of his career in California. He is especially tuned in to his neighbors in tech, but JPMorgan Chase has the biggest of these offices, with 55,000 workers spread across Bengaluru and four other Indian cities. Even all-American retailers like Target and Lowe's have centers employing 4,000 to 5,000 Indians in Bengaluru. Under President Donald Trump, the United States is upending some of its most important trading partnerships. He is particularly irritated by the $46 billion U.S. deficit in the trade of goods with India. Trump has also complained about Indian workers without legal status. But Trump's stated policy solutions — higher U.S. tariffs meant to force India to lower its trade barriers, and the deportations of immigrants — will do nothing to slow the evolution of the long partnership that binds together American companies looking for skilled workers overseas and India's abundant pool of labor. Twenty years ago, many Americans feared that the outsourcing of office jobs to lower-wage economies like India would mean fewer jobs in the United States. Many kinds of jobs have moved overseas since then, and many of those have since been automated. But the American economy needs more skilled workers. Now, many American companies are finding those workers in India. As of 2024, there were about 1,800 offshore corporate offices in India, owned by hundreds of foreign-based multinational companies — most of them American. There are 1.9 million people in India working for foreign companies, with 600,000 to 900,000 more expected to join them by 2030. Together, the offshore business centers in India earned about $65 billion last year, more than the value of American imports to India. By 2030, they are expected to earn $100 billion or more. The business centers are springing up in other countries, too, such as Mexico and Poland, but most are in India. Across India, these foreign-owned offices are now the primary driver of commercial real estate. An estimated 50 new ones were established over the past year. The expectation is that 100 more will join them during 2025. This is welcome news for India, which needs 10 million new jobs each year just to keep unemployment in check. Even with stronger economic growth than any other large country, India's enormous population of young people is in danger of falling behind. The model for these offices has been around since at least the 1990s, when international companies started trickling into India, attracted by an educated middle class that could work for very low wages. As the internet shortened the virtual distance between India and the United States, Americans became familiar with Indian-accented workers at call centers and faraway tech support. The business has changed a lot since those days. Indian wages have picked up, and these offshore subsidiaries are no longer providing only low-value services. They are full-fledged branches of American headquarters, not just outposts, let alone temporary offices that provide outsourcing for information technology services. That sector announced a reduction of 64,000 jobs in 2024. While salaries have gone up over the years, they are still about a quarter to a third of their dollar-adjusted equivalent in the United States. Managers of these offices, known as global capability centers, acknowledged the savings, but they said multinational companies were just as drawn to the quality and abundance of potential Indian workers. 'Where else can you scale up with 2,000 engineers, or marketing professionals, within a year?' exclaimed one executive, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Another point of consensus about the growth of offshore centers is that COVID-19 played a crucial role, as in so many other parts of office life. Pari Natarajan is the CEO and a co-founder of Zinnov, a consultancy that helps companies set up shop in India. He has done this work since 2002 and witnessed successive waves of enthusiasm, the greatest of which started crashing ashore four years ago. 'During COVID, companies realized that they could have teams anywhere — anywhere — and then people are equidistant from each other,' said Natarajan, who usually works from New York City. Pure Storage, a company that makes data-storage hardware used around the world, is one of the newcomers here. Its co-founder John Colgrove, a Silicon Valley legend known as Coz, helped to start the company in Mountain View, California, in 2009. Pure's offices in Bengaluru, on high-rent Church Street, have a California tech feel: open-plan seating, espresso machines, acres of monitors and humming data rooms. Customized murals refer to Bengaluru and the rest of India. But the office has also taken pains to replicate the exact dimensions of the desks stationed in the Silicon Valley headquarters. Ajeya Motaganahalli has been building up the Pure Storage office for the past three years. He is a vice president — Indians holding 'VP-level' leadership jobs at the centers are common, he said. The chain of command runs around the world, he said, with Pure Storage's reporting lines going up and down between California, Bengaluru, and a third center in Prague. Ekroop Caur, a secretary with the state government of Karnataka, is the official responsible for the growth and maintenance of Bengaluru's foreign subsidiaries. One of her priorities is to help companies find suitable spaces, and talent, not just in Bengaluru, which is bursting at the seams, but also in other cities in the state of Karnataka. The offshore office centers are full of tech startups like RapidAI and Pure Storage, but some venerable American corporations are part of the movement. Pitney Bowes, founded 105 years ago in Stamford, Connecticut, by the man who invented the first postal meter, employs 11,000 people around the world, mostly still in the business of shipping. And about 85% of its shipping-technology workforce is in India. Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai. Anisha Johar, who has been with Pitney Bowes for a decade, works on its communications team. 'I never thought I'd have a global role from India,' Johar said. American companies are assembling their workforces in India mainly because it has become difficult to find the right kind of workers in the United States. Studies find that a third of all new engineering jobs go unfilled, while nearly 1.2 million Indians graduate with engineering degrees every year. Lower-wage American workers, who lost jobs as manufacturing work shifted to Asia, have been stranded without retraining. Deborah Kops, the managing principal of Sourcing Change, has been working on this kind of business, especially in India, since the early 1990s. 'We've got an inexorable trend right now, where enterprises understand that you can globalize the work,' Kops said. She has tried setting up global centers within the United States but says that 'we just don't have the education engine' to staff them. 'Can you get 5,000 folks who know how to do this kind of work? You can't,' she said. 'But you can do it in India, and you can do it in other places in the world.' This article originally appeared in
