Burjeel Holdings’ AiMed Solutions and Proximie Join Forces to Develop Next-Generation AI-Powered Intelligent Operating Rooms
Four-Stage Co-Development Program Aims to Improve Surgical Efficiency, Enhance Clinical Decision-Making and Connect Operating Room Workflows Across Healthcare Facilities
AiMed Solutions, the intelligent healthcare development and operating platform of Burjeel Holdings, has partnered with Proximie, a global surgical intelligence platform provider, to jointly develop next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for surgical care. The collaboration aims to transform operating rooms into more connected, data-driven environments capable of understanding clinical workflows, anticipating operational challenges and supporting healthcare professionals in making informed decisions.
The partnership was formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit 2026. The agreement establishes a four-stage co-development program that builds on the ongoing implementation of Proximie’s surgical intelligence platform at Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
The MoU was signed by Safeer Ahamed, Group Head of Shared Services at Burjeel Holdings, and Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, Founder and CEO of Proximie. Under the agreement, the organizations will combine their respective expertise in healthcare system development, clinical workflow transformation, AI integration and surgical intelligence technology to develop solutions tailored to the needs of modern healthcare facilities.
The initiative is intended to improve operating room efficiency, strengthen clinical decision-making and create more connected surgical workflows. By bringing together real-time operational data, medical information and AI-supported insights, the partners aim to help clinical teams understand what is happening across operating rooms and identify opportunities to improve coordination.
The collaboration also supports Burjeel Holdings’ broader digital transformation strategy, which emphasizes clinical excellence, integrated operations and faster decision-making across its healthcare network.
Building the Next Generation of Intelligent Operating Rooms
Operating rooms are among the most complex environments in a hospital. Surgical teams must coordinate surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, technicians, equipment, patient preparation and postoperative processes while maintaining strict safety standards.
Delays in one operating room can affect subsequent procedures, staff schedules, equipment availability and patient flow throughout a hospital. At the same time, clinical teams must document important information, follow safety protocols and coordinate with other departments.
Traditional operating room management can involve multiple systems, separate information sources and manual coordination between teams. These challenges can make it difficult for hospital administrators and clinical personnel to obtain a comprehensive, real-time view of surgical activity.
The partnership between AiMed Solutions and Proximie is intended to address these challenges by developing intelligent systems that connect information across operating rooms and support more coordinated decision-making.
The ongoing implementation of Proximie’s platform at Burjeel Medical City includes computer vision capabilities, electronic medical record connectivity, real-time surgical intelligence and multi-site functionality across 10 operating rooms.
These capabilities form the technological foundation for Burjeel’s ONE OR initiative, which encompasses 45 functional requirements to be advanced through a four-stage development roadmap.
The initiative aims to create an environment in which surgical teams and operational managers can access relevant information, monitor procedure progress, identify potential bottlenecks and coordinate resources more effectively.
Rather than treating each operating room as an isolated unit, the broader approach focuses on providing a connected view of surgical activity across participating rooms and clinical services.
The planned capabilities are intended to support both the operational aspects of surgery and the clinical processes that contribute to safe, coordinated patient care.
Stage One: Real-Time Surgical Intelligence and Clinical Documentation
The first stage of the co-development program will focus on providing real-time surgical intelligence to the people responsible for coordinating the surgical schedule.
Through shared screens and mobile devices, operating room teams will be able to view information about how individual rooms are performing and identify where time may be gained or lost during the surgical day.
The system is intended to help teams understand procedure progress, monitor relevant workflow milestones and receive alerts when the next step in a process is due.
Access to this information could help staff identify emerging delays and coordinate the resources required for upcoming procedures. For example, greater visibility into room activity may help teams prepare for patient transfers, equipment requirements or the next scheduled operation.
The first stage will also include AI-supported clinical documentation. This capability is intended to support documentation workflows by helping healthcare professionals capture and organize relevant information.
Clinical documentation is an essential part of surgical care, recording important details about procedures, patient management and treatment. However, documentation requirements can also add to the administrative workload of healthcare professionals.
AI-supported documentation tools may help reduce some manual tasks and improve access to relevant information, depending on how they are implemented and validated.
The planned system will be developed in collaboration with Burjeel’s clinical teams, allowing the partners to align its capabilities with actual operating room requirements.
The objective is to provide surgical teams with timely information and workflow support without losing sight of the need for clinical oversight, accurate records and patient safety.
Stage Two: Agentic AI, Workflow Monitoring and Bed Management
The second stage will expand the initiative’s focus toward operational productivity and more advanced AI-supported coordination.
Planned capabilities include agentic AI, workflow monitoring, surgical safety checklists and bed management.
Agentic AI refers to AI systems designed to carry out defined tasks or coordinate multiple steps toward a goal, within established permissions and operating rules. In a healthcare setting, such systems may help monitor workflows, identify tasks that require attention and support coordination between different operational processes.
Within the operating room environment, these capabilities could help staff manage routine workflow requirements and identify potential disruptions earlier.
For example, a system that monitors operating room milestones may help highlight when a procedure is running behind schedule or when preparations for a subsequent case require attention. Where appropriate, AI-supported tools could recommend actions for staff to review.
The partnership also plans to incorporate surgical safety checklists into the broader digital workflow.
Safety checklists help teams verify essential information and complete required checks before, during and after procedures. Integrating these processes into a connected platform could make it easier for staff to monitor checklist completion and coordinate the necessary steps.
Bed management is another component of the second stage. Surgical scheduling and inpatient bed availability are closely connected, as patients may require beds for postoperative recovery or continued medical care.
Improved visibility into these operational requirements could help hospital teams coordinate patient movement and resource availability more effectively.
These capabilities are intended to strengthen operational planning while keeping clinical personnel involved in decisions that affect patient care.
Stage Three: Extending Surgical Intelligence Across Additional Clinical Areas
The third stage will extend surgical intelligence beyond traditional operating rooms into other procedural environments, including endoscopy units, cardiac catheterization laboratories and interventional radiology departments.
These clinical settings perform different types of procedures, but they share many operational requirements. Teams must coordinate staff, equipment, patient preparation, procedure schedules and post-procedure care.
Endoscopy units, for example, perform procedures that may require specialized equipment, preparation and recovery arrangements. Cardiac catheterization laboratories support diagnostic and interventional procedures involving the cardiovascular system, while interventional radiology departments use image-guided techniques to perform a range of minimally invasive procedures.
Extending connected intelligence across these environments could help healthcare organizations develop a more comprehensive view of procedural activity.
The third stage will also focus on improving patient journey coordination and family communication.
Patient journeys often involve multiple departments and healthcare professionals, from initial preparation and treatment through recovery and discharge. Delays or gaps in communication can create uncertainty for patients and their families, particularly when procedures involve several stages.
Digital coordination tools may help teams share relevant updates, manage transitions and provide more consistent communication.
The intended approach is to connect operational information across procedural areas while supporting the needs of patients and their families.
The expansion into these additional clinical environments would represent a broader application of the partners’ surgical intelligence capabilities, moving beyond individual operating rooms toward more integrated procedural care.
Stage Four: Surgical Instrument Tracking and Performance Analytics
The fourth stage will focus on surgical instrument tracking and advanced clinical, operational and financial performance indicators.
Surgical instruments are essential resources that must be available, properly managed and handled according to applicable safety and sterilization procedures. Tracking these instruments can help healthcare organizations maintain visibility into their location, availability and use.
The planned instrument-tracking capabilities are intended to support more effective management of surgical resources and improve visibility into instrument-related workflows.
The initiative will also incorporate more advanced performance indicators across clinical, operational and financial areas.
Clinical indicators can help healthcare teams evaluate aspects of care delivery and outcomes. Operational measures can provide insight into scheduling, room utilization and workflow performance. Financial indicators can help hospital leaders understand the resource implications of surgical services.
When these measures are brought together, healthcare administrators may gain a more comprehensive understanding of how operating room performance relates to broader organizational objectives.
Such information can support the identification of bottlenecks, help guide resource allocation and inform decisions about operational improvement.
The planned analytics capabilities are intended to build on the real-time information collected through the surgical intelligence platform.
The partners will need to align the implementation of these capabilities with appropriate data governance, privacy, security and clinical oversight requirements. The announcement establishes the development roadmap but does not specify the final performance outcomes or implementation timelines for every planned feature.
Proximie’s AI Platform Connects Data Across Operating Rooms
Proximie’s surgical intelligence platform is deployed in more than 700 operating rooms, according to the announcement.
The platform combines real-time surgical data from ambient sensors, medical devices and electronic medical records to provide teams with a broader view of operating room activity as the surgical day progresses.
Its technology uses AI models to interpret information about what is happening in individual rooms, identify potential delays and recommend next steps throughout the perioperative journey.
The perioperative journey includes the processes surrounding surgery, from preparation before a procedure through the operation and subsequent recovery-related activities.
Combining information from multiple sources can help reduce the fragmentation that occurs when different systems operate independently. It can also provide healthcare teams with a more coordinated understanding of procedural progress and operational requirements.
The platform’s computer vision capabilities and connections with electronic medical records form part of the ongoing implementation at Burjeel Medical City.
Under the co-development program, AiMed Solutions, Proximie and Burjeel’s clinical teams will work together to develop additional AI-powered solutions tailored to the organization’s clinical and operational needs.
The partners intend to build on the existing platform rather than treat the initiative as an entirely separate technology project.
This approach provides a foundation for adapting surgical intelligence capabilities to the workflows, requirements and priorities identified by healthcare professionals working within Burjeel’s facilities.
AiMed Solutions Brings Healthcare AI and Workflow Expertise
AiMed Solutions contributes expertise in healthcare system development, clinical workflow transformation and AI integration.
The platform draws on experience from the deployment of more than two dozen AI applications across clinical care and operations within the wider healthcare ecosystem, according to the announcement.
This experience is relevant to the development of systems that must operate within complex healthcare environments, where digital tools need to align with clinical processes, operational requirements and existing technology infrastructure.
AI applications in healthcare may support a range of functions, including information management, workflow coordination, operational analysis and clinical decision support.
However, their effectiveness depends on how well they are integrated into existing processes, how accurately they perform their intended tasks and whether healthcare professionals can use their outputs appropriately.
By collaborating directly with Proximie and Burjeel’s clinical teams, AiMed Solutions aims to help ensure that the new capabilities reflect the needs of the organization.
The joint development model also creates an opportunity to incorporate feedback from the people who use operating room systems in day-to-day practice.
This alignment between technology development and clinical operations is important because the requirements of a surgical environment can vary by specialty, procedure type and facility.
Supporting Burjeel Holdings’ Digital Transformation Strategy
The partnership aligns with Burjeel Holdings’ Burjeel 2.0 transformation strategy, which prioritizes faster decision-making, clinical excellence and integrated operations.
Over the years, Burjeel Holdings has expanded its capabilities in complex surgical care across multiple specialties. These include robotic and minimally invasive surgery, advanced orthopedic procedures, cardiovascular interventions, surgical oncology, fetal surgery and multiorgan transplantation.
These specialties can involve sophisticated equipment, multidisciplinary teams and extensive coordination across different stages of patient care.
As surgical services become increasingly complex, healthcare organizations have opportunities to use connected data and intelligent technology to improve operational visibility and support more informed decisions.
The ONE OR initiative reflects this direction by focusing on the relationship between surgical workflows, clinical information and hospital operations.
The four-stage roadmap is intended to progress from real-time visibility and documentation toward broader workflow coordination, additional procedural settings, instrument tracking and advanced performance analytics.
The announcement does not establish specific quantified targets for reductions in operating room delays, improvements in patient outcomes or financial savings. Instead, it outlines a development program intended to build the capabilities that may help support these objectives.
Advancing Connected and Data-Driven Surgical Care
The collaboration between AiMed Solutions and Proximie represents an effort to bring AI-powered intelligence more deeply into surgical operations at Burjeel Medical City and, through the development program, address a wider range of clinical and operational requirements.
By combining surgical data, computer vision, electronic medical record connectivity and AI-supported workflow tools, the partners aim to give healthcare professionals better visibility into operating room activity and opportunities to improve coordination.
The four-stage program will cover real-time surgical intelligence, clinical documentation, agentic AI, safety checklists, bed management, expansion into additional procedural areas, patient journey coordination, surgical instrument tracking and performance analytics.
The initiative builds on Proximie’s existing platform implementation across 10 operating rooms at Burjeel Medical City and aligns with Burjeel Holdings’ broader transformation strategy.
As the partnership progresses, its development work will focus on translating these capabilities into solutions suited to the needs of clinicians, operational teams and patients.
The broader goal is to support a more connected surgical environment in which timely information, coordinated workflows and data-driven insights help healthcare organizations manage complex procedures and deliver care more efficiently.
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