Traditional Omani healthcare setting with mashrabiya architecture
CONTRIB · 01 · PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORDr. Abdullah M. Al Alawi
Principal Investigator
Dr. Abdullah M. Al Alawi

Senior Consultant in General Internal Medicine. Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency at OMSB. Clinician-researcher in hospital medicine, patient outcomes, and AI in medicine.

SQUH · OMSB
02Dr. Mohamed Najeeb Al-Rawahi
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Dr. Mohamed Najeeb Al-Rawahi

SQUH and the National Heart Center. AI in cardiovascular care, arrhythmia detection, decision support.

SQUH · NHC
03Dr. Salim Al-Busaidi
Specialist, Internal Medicine
Dr. Salim Al-Busaidi

Clinical research, medical education, digital health innovation.

SQUH
04Dr. Muhammad Shoaib
Consultant, General Internal Medicine
Dr. Muhammad Shoaib

Hospital medicine, lipidology, preventive cardiovascular care, AI-based risk prediction.

SQUH
05Dr. Zubaida Al Falahi
Consultant, Internal Medicine (Acute Care & General Medicine)
Dr. Zubaida Al Falahi

Acute Care Medicine. Clinical excellence, education, and service development.

SQUH
06Dr. Tamadhir Al-Mahrouqi
Psychiatry Physician
Dr. Tamadhir Al-Mahrouqi

SQUH. Digital mental health innovations and AI integration.

SQUH
07Dr. Kawthar Al Lawati
Internal Medicine Resident
Dr. Kawthar Al Lawati

Internal Medicine Resident at OMSB. Active in medical research.

OMSB
HK08
Internal Medicine Specialist
Dr. Hour Al Kaabi

MCMSS. Leadership, medical education, research, AI integration in medicine.

MCMSS
09Dr. Noor Alkaabi
Internal Medicine Resident
Dr. Noor Alkaabi

OMSB · SQU graduate. Medical research and AI in healthcare.

OMSB · SQU
10Mohammed Al Habsi
Medical Student & Researcher
Mohammed Al Habsi

SQU. Cardiology, AI, and population-based clinical studies.

SQU
AB11
AI Engineer
Afra Albadi

GUtech. Full-stack, machine learning, RAG pipelines, local LLM deployment.

GUtech
12Dawood Al Amri
Staff Nurse, SQUH/UMC
Dawood Al Amri

BSN, MSN in Adult and Critical Care Nursing. Frontline clinical documentation expertise.

SQUH/UMC
رؤية
٢٠٤٠ OMAN VISION

Built for the Sultanate.
Built in the Sultanate.

Sovereign AI. Knowledge economy. Healthcare in the citizen's own language.

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An Omani AI sector

Trained, hosted, and operated on Omani soil. Every line of code, every weight, every recording — in-country. Nothing federated abroad.

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Arabic as a first-class medical language

Closing the gap between how patients speak and how charts are written. Not translating — listening, in the dialect of the bedside.

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Clinicians who build, not buy

Doctors, residents, and engineers from SQUH, OMSB, MCMSS, SQU, and GUtech — co-designing the system that serves them. A national capability, not a vendor relationship.

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A blueprint for the Arab world

What works in Muscat scales to Riyadh, Cairo, Amman, Doha. Built to be lifted, not licensed.

Honest progress, in public.

Real numbers from a real pipeline. No demos — this is live data from our annotation platform.

5,846
Hours of Arabic Audio
Harvested · Transcribed · Segmented
16,864
Annotation Tasks
Created · Queued · Assigned
3,933
Clips Fully Verified
Dual-reviewed · Quality-scored
52
Annotators
9,187
Review Touches
79.3%
Agreement Rate
6
Arabic Dialects
93h
Human Annotation
PHASE 01 · ✓ DONE

Team & infrastructure

52 contributors from 6 dialect backgrounds. Two GPU workstations. 5,846 hours of Arabic audio harvested and transcribed on-prem.

PHASE 02 · ⊙ ACTIVE — WE NEED YOU

Annotation & dialect data

3,933 clips fully verified through dual-review. 9,187 total annotation touches. 79% inter-annotator agreement. 93 hours of human effort. Join us — 16,000+ clips still in queue.

PHASE 03 · NEXT

Fine-tuning & SOAP extraction

Fine-tune Whisper on the Omani corpus. Train a local LLM to structure transcripts into SOAP notes. Targeted Q3 2026.

PHASE 04 · LATER

Bedside research pilot

A small, IRB-approved bedside study at SQUH. Measure clinician time saved, note quality, patient comfort. 2027, not before.

Project Budget

Transparently funded through national research grants.

Total Budget
16,500
OMR
Spent to Date
10,014
OMR (61%)
Hardware & Equipment 50%
AI & Software 29%
Research Team 17%
Operational 4%

A nation of rich heritage,
a medicine of many voices.

Oman's healthcare is shaped by centuries of trade, tradition, and a mosaic of Arabic dialects. Every governorate has its own way of describing pain, illness, and healing. Medad is trained on this country — not generic Arabic from elsewhere.

OMAN · GOVERNORATESسلطنة عُمان
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▸ OMAN · STATUS · ACTIVE pop.عُمان · نقطة البداية. الفريق والبيانات والمرضى. لهجات خليجية مع إدخال للمصطلحات الإنجليزية في المستشفيات الجامعية.OMAN · ORIGIN. The team, the data, the patients. Khaleeji bedside Arabic with English medical terminology mixing.