Dr Zaid Al-Fagih, Co-Founder and CEO of Rhazes AI, examines why low-resource healthcare environments – particularly those rebuilding after conflict – may offer the most fertile ground for deploying AI-native health systems. Drawing on a pilot programme at a hospital in Southern Lebanon, he argues that the absence of legacy infrastructure, if paired with robust governance frameworks, could allow these settings to leapfrog the integration challenges that continue to impede AI adoption across developed-world healthcare systems.
The settings where AI could have the most immediate impact are not high-tech hospitals…