Technology & IT | Monday 23 April, 2018 3:28 pm |

TIP Healthcare Awards brought by Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Economic Development and the UAE Ministry of Economy is proud to announce NMC Healthcare, as their Strategic Innovation Partner with the goal of transforming emerging economies and establishing entrepreneurship as a leading force for sustainable economic development in the healthcare industry.

 

NMC Healthcare, the largest private healthcare company in the UAE, is equipped to take advantage of trends in the healthcare industry based on its existing capabilities in addition to developing new specialty areas to maintain its position as a leader in the market. The objective of this strategic partnership is to produce a range of innovative solutions that will improve Abu Dhabi’s Health Sector and tackle the challenges faced today.
 

Commenting on this partnership Dr. Asma Al Mannaei, Director of Healthcare Quality in the Department of Health Abu Dhabi said, “TIP Healthcare Awards aims to partner up with various local and international entities. NMC will support entrepreneurs’ patent ideas to develop them and even implement them to bring them to life. This will help and encourage other investors to come up with more solutions for the healthcare industry.”

Mr. Salem Abdalla M. Bin Shabib, Advisor of Innovation, Incubation and SME at the Department of Economic Development, said that the partnership with NMC Healthcare is an important step in achieving and supporting the strategic objectives of TIP because of the company's great experience in healthcare industry. 

The TIP Healthcare Award objective is to establish a sustainable world-class platform to encourage quality and competitive healthcare innovation on a global scale by attracting innovators and entrepreneurs from all over the world. The initiative aims to stimulate innovation across a wide healthcare spectrum, ranging from cardiovascular disease prevention and management, cancer control and prevention, tobacco control, road safety, communicable disease prevention and control, oral health, occupational and environmental health and mother, infant and school health and many more. 

“NMC is delighted to be a part of the TIP Healthcare Awards helping the Department of Health embarking upon a strategic journey of achieving larger goals in healthcare, identified as a key strategic pillar, towards the accomplishment of the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030.” Said Prasanth Manghat, CEO and Executive Director of NMC Health Plc.

 

In supporting TIP Healthcare Awards, NMC sponsorship will contribute to uplifting the healthcare industry by connecting the award winners with NMC to develop and apply their patents and inventions. Additionally, it will contribute to patent application licensing by facilitating with the setup and development for the proof of concept and startup winners.