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ReMedi Health Solutions, a national healthcare IT consulting firm, has been selected as the US prime contractor to lead an AI readiness initiative at Jordan’ s King Hussein Cancer Center( KHCC).
The engagement is funded through a Technical Assistance grant from the US Trade and Development Agency( USTDA) to the King Hussein Cancer Foundation( KHCF) and supports KHCC’ s Office of Artificial Intelligence and Information Innovations.
The USTDA-funded technical assistance will support KHCC in strengthening its AI governance, readiness and implementation planning while advancing three pilots focused on business intelligence, breast cancer diagnostics and clinical trials screening.
The project will also identify US firms and technology providers that may support KHCC with additional AI technologies after the engagement. Together, these efforts help KHCC evaluate practical AI applications for earlier detection, better-informed care decisions, operational visibility and sustainable adoption in clinical and administrative workflows.
JORDAN e & UAE and Core42, a G42 company specialising in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure and digital services, announced a partnership to deliver Sovereign AI Compute, giving organisations in the UAE and international markets immediate, secure access to in-country AI infrastructure for faster deployment of AI applications and use cases. The GPU Sovereign AI Compute platform marks the first joint offering under a broader global partnership, which also encompasses collaborative efforts to strengthen the resilience of critical AI services and safeguard national digital continuity across the UAE.
The new offering combines Core42’ s Sovereign AI Cloud with e & UAE’ s national-scale digital infrastructure, secure connectivity, local customer relationships and professional services to create a fully integrated platform. This enables organisations to move from AI strategy to production deployment within a unified commercial and operational framework. The service is designed to keep sensitive workloads and data within the UAE while providing customers with a secure and accelerated path to build, train, fine-tune, run inference and deploy AI at scale.
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