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Digital health & life sciences · MENA & Africa

A cancer approval took 28 days. Now it takes 2.

iClaim, built with Egypt’s public health insurer, the Health Insurance Organization. 100,000+ cancer patients have moved through it since 2018, across 70+ centres.

Everest Minds designs, builds and operates the regulated platforms where access, regulatory and clinical decisions run, for life sciences and health institutions.

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A child in an oncology ward Oncology · Health Insurance Organization
28d → 2d
approval time
The wait is a child’s wait · oncology ward
2M+
patients reached
40+
implementations delivered
3
markets live today
500+
HCPs onboard
Selected collaborations across life sciences, public health and healthcare institutions
AstraZeneca Amgen Roche Danone Nutricia MSD Viatris USAID PhRMA
Names indicate collaboration, funded initiatives or ecosystem participation; they are not presented as endorsements.
01 What we do

We design, build and operate regulated health technology.

Delivery covers the full implementation cycle: solution design, build, integration, governance, training, support and operation inside the client institution.

01

Access & authorization workflows

Treatment approvals, reimbursement, committee review and funding-decision workflows for payers, funders and patient-support programs.

Prior authorizationReimbursementPatient support
02

Regulatory & health-product operations

Submission, review, registration, batch release, clinical-trial and promotional-review systems for health authorities and industry.

Submission & registrationBatch releasePromotional review
03

Registries, RWE & specialty care

Specialty EMR, multidisciplinary team boards, disease registries and real-world evidence platforms for clinical and research settings.

Specialty EMRDisease registriesReal-world evidence
04

Patient services & HCP engagement

Diagnostics access, HCP portals, medical-society platforms, training and field rollout for adoption at scale.

Home diagnosticsHCP portalsMedical societies
02 Who we serve

Built for the organizations that determine access to care.

Health programs succeed when industry, authorities, payers and providers operate on shared, governed workflows. We work on every side of that table.

Pharma & life sciences

Market access enablement, real-world evidence, medical affairs programs and patient-support operations across MENA & Africa.

Regulators & health authorities

National submission, registration, batch-release, clinical-trial and promotional-review systems, operated under authority governance.

Payers & funders

Authorization, reimbursement and medical-funding workflows that carry clinical and financial decisions at national volume.

Ministries & public health

National registries, newborn screening programs, grant and loan allocation systems for population-scale public health.

Providers & medical societies

Specialty EMR, MDT boards, quality management and professional-community platforms for hospitals and societies.

03 Our model

Co-creation.

Health systems don’t change because software is delivered. They change when the workflow is designed with the institution, built on proven platforms, and operated from the inside.

Design

Design with the institution.

Committees, roles, service levels and governance are mapped with the institution from the outset, so the platform reflects how the organisation actually operates.

Build

Build around live workflows.

Configured for Arabic-English healthcare operations, aligned to MENA regulation, and integrated with the systems institutions already run.

Operate

Operate inside.

We train, support and run the system in the institution’s name, on its infrastructure, under its governance. And we stay.

04 Our impact

Getting patients to treatment, faster.

Real programs running inside payers, regulators, ministries and health systems. Each one is a measurable change in how patients reach treatment. Select a program for the full story.

Child receiving care in an oncology unit
PayerLive since 2018
28 days → 2 daysoncology approval time

National oncology treatment authorization

Health Insurance Organization · Egypt · in production since 2018
ChallengeHigh-cost oncology approvals were processed by hand across dozens of treatment centres, delaying the start of cancer therapy by weeks.
BuiltA governed authorization platform that routes every case through structured clinical and financial review: protocol-checked, costed and fully auditable, end to end.
OutcomeApproval time cut from 28 days to 2. It now serves 100K+ cancer patients across 70+ centres in 25 governorates.
ProofPublished as a public success story on everestminds.com.
Bait Al-Zakat headquarters in Cairo
National fundingLive since 2020
45 days → 7 daysfunding decision time

National medical-funding case operations

Bait Al-Zakat & Sadaqat · Egypt · in production since 2020
ChallengePatients waited weeks for financial-support decisions on critical treatment, against record-breaking national case volumes.
BuiltEnd-to-end case management on a single governed workflow: intake, eligibility, committee decision and disbursement.
OutcomeFunding decisions compressed from 45 days to 7, with 88K+ patients processed at national scale.
Everest Minds presenting the National Digital Registry to Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population
Public healthLive since 2019
30K+newborns screened

National newborn genetics registry

Ministry of Health + Danone · Egypt · in production since 2019
ChallengeMetabolic disorders were often caught too late, after irreversible harm had already occurred.
BuiltA national screening registry coordinating sample, lab and result workflows across 60 centres nationwide.
Outcome30K+ children tracked for metabolic disorders, with detection windows that once took months now closing in days. Still running today.
National authority agreement signing
RegulatorGovernment-operated
National platformrun inside the authority

National regulatory registration platform (EVERS)

Egyptian Drug Authority · Egypt · in production
ChallengeProduct registration relied on fragmented, paper-bound authority processes.
BuiltA national e-registration platform, mandated by the authority for all veterinary product registrations and fast-track review.
OutcomeA national regulator now runs daily on the platform at evers.edaegypt.gov.eg, established by official authority decree.
ProofAnnounced in official Egyptian Drug Authority communications (2023).
Health authority working session
RegulatorLive + ongoing service
4 months → 14 dayspromotional approval time

Promotional-material e-submission (PROMAT)

Egyptian Drug Authority · Egypt · in production
ChallengeApproval of promotional material took four to five months of manual, back-and-forth review.
BuiltAn e-submission and structured-review workflow operated inside the authority, backed by a continuous regulatory-services operation.
OutcomeApproval time compressed from roughly four months to 14 days, and is now a standing authority service.
Specialty clinical team reviewing patient records
Specialty careLive since 2023
National registryrare disease, with AstraZeneca

National rare-disease registry (Clinera)

AstraZeneca · specialty care · in production since 2023
ChallengeRare-disease patients are scattered across centres with no shared record, which makes diagnosis, treatment pathways and real-world evidence almost impossible to coordinate.
BuiltA national rare-disease registry on Clinera: structured specialty records, multidisciplinary review and real-world-evidence capture in one governed system.
OutcomeA live national registry delivered with a global pharma partner; a premium variant is in design for a second market in 2026.
A clinician reviewing a digital health dashboard on a tablet
Pharma3 markets since 2019
8 productsacross three markets

Multi-country pharma digital portfolio

Roche · Egypt, UAE & KSA · multi-year
ChallengeA top-tier pharma needed consistent HCP and patient digital execution across three distinct Gulf and North-African markets.
BuiltAn eight-product portfolio of HCP portals, e-detailing, engagement and patient tools, delivered and operated across affiliates.
OutcomeMulti-year, multi-country digital operations spanning Egypt, the UAE and KSA for a global life-sciences leader.
The CheckMe consumer health app
Consumer healthLaunched 2019
100K+app users

CheckMe consumer health app

Lab&Co · Egypt · live in app stores
ChallengePeople had no simple way to order lab tests, read results and follow their health between clinic visits.
BuiltA consumer health app for booking lab tests, viewing results and tracking health over time, built and run as a product with a fractional-CTO engagement.
OutcomeGrew to 100K+ users, putting lab results and everyday health tracking directly in patients’ hands.

Plus programs with AstraZeneca, Amgen, MSD, Viatris, Zoetis and Danone Nutricia. 2M+ patients reached across MENA & Africa.

05 Footprint

Built in Egypt. Operating across MENA & Africa.

What began in Cairo now runs across the Gulf and North Africa, with active pilots reaching further south and a European base in Hamburg.

Map of the Everest Minds footprint across North Africa and the Middle East
Live Egypt · UAE · Saudi Arabia Pilot Algeria · South Africa Next Morocco · Iraq Europe Hamburg
06 Flagship platform

AI-powered clinical intelligence for specialty care.

Clinera is a voice-first clinical copilot that structures data in real time, automates specialty workflows and powers multidisciplinary decisions across oncology and complex care.

Voice-first clinical AIVirtual tumor boardsSpecialty EMR + registryRWE intelligenceOn-premise deploymentArabic-English understanding
20+ hospital deploymentsLive with specialty-care teams and hospital programs across MENA & Africa.
Built with AstraZenecaPowers a national rare-disease registry alongside oncology multidisciplinary programs.
100% data sovereignty optionOn-premise deployment model where no clinical data leaves the institution.
Security by designAES-256 encryption, immutable audit trails and de-identification-ready workflows.
Meet Clinera →
07 Recognition

Recognition earned through delivery.

Global partner networks, award juries and international programs that have trusted our work.

The Everest Minds team at Egypt's Entrepreneur Awards 2025
EEA 2025

Disruptive Duo finalist, with AstraZeneca.

Egypt’s Entrepreneur Awards 2025, for healthcare market innovation, as a shared nomination with a global pharma partner.

Award page →
Everest Minds presenting at the AstraZeneca A.Catalyst Network stand in London
A.Catalyst Network

Member of AstraZeneca’s global health-innovation network.

The partner network AstraZeneca uses to take access-to-care programs into health systems. We presented at the A.Catalyst stand in London.

About the network →
The Everest Minds team on the Meet Silicon Valley program at Google
US Embassy · TechWadi

Selected for the Silicon Valley program.

Chosen by the US Embassy in Cairo and TechWadi for Meet Silicon Valley, an INJAZ Egypt acceleration exchange with sessions across the Valley’s leading tech companies.

Program details →
Everest Minds receiving recognition on stage at the Middle East Veterinary Conference in Dubai
MVC · Dubai

Recognized at the Middle East Veterinary Conference.

Honoured at MVC in Dubai, the region’s leading animal-health conference, held under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the World Organisation for Animal Health.

08 About Everest Minds

We operate inside the institution, long after go-live.

Everest Minds engineers working in the Cairo office
The Cairo team · engineering, clinical and delivery under one roof
“Healthcare implementation does not fail because people lack software. It fails when the institutions around the patient are not designed to move together.”
Ahmed Behairy, Founder and CEO of Everest Minds
Ahmed BehairyFounder & CEO, Everest Minds
Founded 2017Cairo, Egypt
Cairo · Riyadh · Dubaioperating presence
Engineers, clinicians, operatorsone implementation team

Build the workflow around the institution, not around the software.

If you are a life-sciences team, health authority, payer, provider or public-health partner working on access, evidence or care coordination, start here.

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