AI helps Kuwaiti doctors better
diagnose heart conditions
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loud-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping doctors in Kuwait
quickly gain a clearer and more accurate understanding of a
cardiac patient’s heart condition with the first system of its kind to
be deployed in the Middle East.
Nearly 41% of all non-communicable disease deaths in Kuwait
are attributable to cardiovascular disease; the newly installed GE
Healthcare MRI solution will enhance diagnostics and enable
practitioners to identify critical medical conditions at an early stage.
The fast, accurate and non-invasive solution combines results from a
cardiac MRI with analytics generated by GE Healthcare’s AI, cloud-
based MRI post-processing ViosWorks, powered by ArterysTM.
Installed at the Images Diagnostic Center, the solution provides real-
time quantifiable data of the whole chest in less than 10 minutes,
a fraction of the time of a conventional scan. It also delivers a
resolution previously unattainable.
This enhanced test more quickly and clearly allows physicians to
see if the heart has been damaged from a heart attack, or if there
is a lack of blood flow to the heart muscle because of narrowed or
blocked arteries.
The benefits for patient comfort are equally dramatic and offer a
free-breathing option that is completed in as short a time as eight-
minutes. The reduced imaging time also means facilities can use
their equipment more efficiently.
GE Healthcare installed the ViosWorks system with its partner
Advanced Technology Company.
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Batelco selects Nokia’s Nuage Networks’ SD-
WAN 2.0 solution to support cloud connectivity
N
okia has announced Batelco has chosen
the Nuage Networks’ SD-WAN 2.0 solution
to support cloud connectivity, automation and
Digital Transformation services.
Batelco will complement its existing business
services by providing customers with
simplified management of, and dynamic
support for, cloud and IoT applications.
Batelco is now enhancing its digital offering
with SD-WAN services, which use Software-
Defined Networking (SDN) over any kind of
Wide Area Network (WAN) connection to
allow its customers to leverage new cloud
and IoT-driven business applications.
The Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution
will enable Batelco’s enterprise customers
to reduce IT admin costs by managing
their entire corporate networks – including
branches, data centres and public cloud
– using one, unified dashboard. The
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dashboard will allow customers to manage
key functionalities, such as user access and
security as well as quality and performance
parameters, across the entire virtual network.
Abderrahmane Mounir, GM Enterprise,
Batelco, said: “Our enterprise customers
are pursuing the digitalisation of their
businesses. They are moving heavily to
the cloud, IoT and Machine Learning
technologies. The Nuage Networks SD-
WAN 2.0 solution will enable us to cost-
effectively support them with an agile,
open and cloud-based network service. The
introduction of this solution will further
enhance Batelco’s position as a leading
digital solutions company in the Kingdom
of Bahrain and the region.”
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