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Healthcare & Life Sciences

Digital solutions for Saudi hospitals, clinics, and pharmaceutical companies. From patient management systems and AI diagnostics to telemedicine platforms and regulatory compliance with Saudi MOH and CBAHI standards.

Why this matters

Saudi healthcare runs under a uniquely dense regulatory stack — MOH sets the digital-health policy, CBAHI audits the quality controls hospitals are accredited against, the SFDA regulates any software classified as a medical device, NPHIES is the national health-information exchange every claims and clinical-data pipeline now plugs into, and the SDAIA Personal Data Protection Law governs how patient data is stored, processed and shared. Build the platform wrong and any one of these can stall a launch for months. Mantiqi designs and ships hospital-grade EHR, triage AI, telemedicine and pharmacy integrations that are scoped against each authority on day one rather than retrofitted at UAT.

Industry Challenges

01

Paper-based patient records and appointment systems

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Difficulty meeting Saudi MOH digital health mandates

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Long patient wait times and inefficient triage

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Data silos between departments and facilities

Our Solutions

01

Electronic health record (EHR) implementation and migration

02

AI-assisted triage and diagnostic support tools

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Telemedicine platforms with Arabic language support

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Interoperability layers connecting labs, pharmacy, and billing

How we deliver

  1. 01

    Regulatory scope + clinical workflow mapping

    Weeks 1–2

    We sit with clinical leadership and IT, map your existing patient journey, and classify which surfaces fall under the SFDA's medical-device software definition (anything that influences a clinical decision usually does). Output is a written compliance plan — MOH expectations, CBAHI controls touched, SFDA classification, NPHIES integration scope, SDAIA data residency.

    • Clinical workflow map (current + target state)
    • SFDA SaMD classification per surface
    • NPHIES integration scope (claims + clinical exchange)
    • Data residency + PHI handling plan
  2. 02

    Secure platform build

    Weeks 3–10

    EHR / patient portal / triage AI / telemedicine surfaces ship in two-week iterations. HL7 FHIR-based NPHIES connectors land first because they're the riskiest. Arabic-first UX with RTL, mixed-language clinical free-text, and an evaluation harness for any AI surface so accuracy is measured rather than hoped for.

    • FHIR-based NPHIES connectors
    • Arabic + English clinical UI
    • Audit-grade encrypted PHI store
    • AI evaluation harness with held-out clinical sets
  3. 03

    Clinical validation + CBAHI readiness

    Weeks 9–14

    Clinical pilot with named end-users, structured evaluation against the eval set, IT-security review against NCA ECC, and CBAHI control-mapping for the surfaces that touch accredited standards. SFDA submission support where the software classifies as a medical device.

    • Clinical pilot report + signed acceptance
    • Penetration test + remediation
    • CBAHI control mapping
    • SFDA submission package (when applicable)
  4. 04

    Go-live + ongoing surveillance

    Ongoing

    Production monitoring with clinical-incident workflows, quarterly model refresh on any AI surface, annual NCA + SDAIA reviews, and post-market surveillance for SaMD-classified surfaces. We don't disappear at go-live — managed services keep the regulatory posture intact between audits.

    • Production monitoring + clinical incident workflow
    • Quarterly AI model + retrieval refresh
    • Annual NCA / SDAIA review support
    • Post-market surveillance dossier (SaMD)

What clients see

FHIR-native from day one

NPHIES connectors built on HL7 FHIR R4 so the same primitives talk to bedside monitors and EHRs already deployed

Arabic-first triage and clinical UX

Saudi-Arabic clinical NLP tuned on real chief-complaint phrasing, not Google-translated baselines

Audit-grade PHI handling

Encrypted at rest, tamper-evident audit trails, in-Kingdom residency on Azure KSA or sovereign-cloud as required

Compliance & regulators we work with

MOH — Saudi Ministry of Health digital health policyReference

MOH sets the policy frame for hospital digitalisation, telemedicine licensing, and digital prescriptions. Anything patient-facing in the Kingdom maps back to MOH guidance.

CBAHI — Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare InstitutionsReference

CBAHI accreditation controls drive what hospitals are audited against on safety, quality and clinical documentation. Software touching accredited workflows is mapped to specific CBAHI controls during build.

SFDA — Saudi Food & Drug Authority (Software as a Medical Device)Reference

SaMD-classified software requires SFDA registration before clinical use. Classification is decided up-front — surfaces that influence a clinical decision usually qualify; pure administrative surfaces usually don't.

NPHIES — National Platform for Health Information Exchange ServicesReference

NPHIES is the standard interoperability layer for claims, eligibility, pre-authorisation and clinical data exchange between providers and payers. Integrations use HL7 FHIR R4.

SDAIA — Personal Data Protection LawReference

Saudi PDPL governs how patient personal data is collected, stored, transferred and disclosed. Particularly load-bearing for cross-border data flows and AI training on clinical data.

NCA — Essential Cybersecurity ControlsReference

The NCA's ECC framework applies to critical healthcare infrastructure. Tenant architecture, encryption, audit logging, and incident response map back to specific ECC controls and are reviewed pre-launch.

Frequently asked questions

Healthcare & Life Sciences questions our team hears most often.

Healthcare software in the Kingdom sits under several overlapping authorities. The Ministry of Health (MOH) sets the digital-health policy; CBAHI accreditation drives the quality and safety standards hospitals are audited against; the SFDA regulates medical-device software (including AI-as-a-medical-device); NPHIES is the national health information exchange you connect to for claims and clinical data sharing; and the SDAIA Personal Data Protection Law governs how patient data is stored, processed and transferred. NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls layer on top for infrastructure security.

Still have questions?

Our team is ready to help. Reach out and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Free Saudi healthcare compliance review

Ready to Transform Your Healthcare Operations?

Send us a short brief on what you're building (EHR, triage AI, telemedicine, pharmacy interop, NPHIES integration). We'll send back a written review covering which MOH / CBAHI / SFDA / NPHIES / SDAIA frameworks apply, where your existing architecture sits against them, and the highest-leverage gaps to close before clinical pilot. No sales call required.

Get the compliance review

Regulatory scoping is fixed-fee at SAR 18,000. Full hospital EHR and triage AI deployments typically land between SAR 280,000 and SAR 650,000 depending on SaMD classification and NPHIES scope. Managed services from SAR 12,000 / month.