Team AssembledQ4 2024
IRB SubmittedQ1 2025
Hardware SetupCompleted
Data CollectionIn Progress
Model TrainingIn Progress
Corpus BuilderLaunched
Milestone March 2026

Data Collection Has Begun

Clinical data collection is now underway across participating hospitals in Muscat. Our team is actively recording real-world doctor-patient conversations in Gulf Arabic, building the foundation for Medad's speech recognition and clinical note generation models.

Technical March 2026

Model Training Initiated

Initial model training has kicked off using collected speech data. We are fine-tuning Arabic ASR models and local LLMs on Omani medical terminology, Gulf dialect patterns, and clinical note structures — all processed on our on-premise GPU infrastructure.

Team February 2025

Medad Research Team Formed

A multidisciplinary team of 11 clinicians, researchers, and engineers from across Oman's top medical institutions has come together to build Medad — the first Arabic ambient clinical documentation system.

Milestone January 2025

IRB Application Submitted

Institutional Review Board application submitted for ethical approval of clinical data collection across participating hospitals in Muscat. A critical step toward starting real-world recording sessions.

Technical December 2024

Local Infrastructure Planning

Evaluating on-premise GPU servers and local LLM deployment strategies to ensure 100% data sovereignty for Omani patient information. Testing various hardware configurations for optimal performance.

Project November 2024

Project Inception & Planning

Initial project concept developed and research methodology designed. Identifying key collaborators across Omani medical institutions and defining the technical architecture for the system.

Collaborate With Us

We are building the largest Arabic clinical speech corpus and welcome partnerships with hospitals, universities, and research institutions across the Arab world.

Whether you can contribute clinical recordings, linguistic expertise, or engineering resources — we want to hear from you.