King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Saudi Arabia is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to enhance diagnostics accuracy, streamline patient care and improve treatment outcomes.

Central to this is the Centre for Healthcare Intelligence (CHI), which uses 20 AI applications to advance medical imaging, patient flow and resource management, fostering a sustainable AI ecosystem.

Through predictive models for bone marrow transplants and heart failure readmissions, CHI enables early identification of high-risk patients, improving real-time, personalised treatments. In collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, CHI has launched a training programme in applied health AI, empowering healthcare workers to make precise, timely decisions.

Additionally, AI tools in radiology have improved diagnostic accuracy by 25% and reduced misdiagnosis rates by 18%, advancing the detection of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

The hospital’s AI-powered Capacity Command Centre automates tasks and optimises resource allocation to streamline care further. Since 2021, it has completed over 170,000 interventions, cutting bed waiting times from 32 to six hours, with 90% of pharmacy and lab services completed within 15 minutes.

KFSHRC continues to advance its AI capabilities with JuhAIna, a generative AI system designed to streamline organ transplant decision-making, which was shown at last week’s Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh (www.globalhealthsaudi.com).

These advancements have earned KFSHRC global recognition, including being named one of Newsweek’s “World’s Best Smart Hospitals for 2025” and winning the 2022 Leadership Award in Artificial Intelligence and the Zimam Digital Health Award 2022.

KFSHRC (www.kfshrc.edu.sa) has been ranked first in the Middle East and Africa and 20th globally in the list of the world’s top 250 academic medical centres for the second consecutive year and has been recognised as the most valuable healthcare brand in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, according to the 2024 Brand Finance rankings. Additionally, in the same year, it was ranked among the world’s best 250 hospitals and included in the World’s Best Smart Hospitals list for 2025 by Newsweek magazine.