Vodafone Qatar and Digital Delmar Agree to Explore AI Health Monitoring for Older People

The deal is for Vodafone Qatar's enterprise unit to look at healthcare as a new source of revenue beyond connectivity. Both companies called the agreement exploratory, and neither disclosed financial terms, a timeline or any commitment to roll out a service.

The companies named four areas they will examine: care and independent-living support for older people, remote monitoring of patients at home, healthcare services for companies, and consumer products. The main proposal is Anees, an AI-based consumer service to monitor the health of older people and people with disabilities and give their families and caregivers more reassurance.

Sheikh Sultan bin Fahad Al-Thani, Vodafone Qatar's head of public sector sales, signed for the operator, and Eng. Ahmed Al Naggar, chief executive of Digital Delmar, signed for his company.

Mohammed Mohsin Al Yafei, director of Vodafone Qatar's enterprise business unit, said the partners want to explore how AI-powered healthcare can "support independent living, improve access to care and contribute to Qatar's ongoing digital transformation." Al Naggar said the aim is to make care "more proactive, accessible and personalised," from monitoring older people through Anees to remote care and corporate wellness programmes.

The operator has signed a string of similar agreements. In July 2025 it agreed a partnership with The View Hospital and the Korean Medical Center on employee wellbeing and healthcare innovation, and last year it signed AI cooperation memorandums with partners including iFlytek and Qatar's Khwarizmi AI Center.

MWC Doha, which the GSMA held in Qatar this year alongside an ITU conference, produced a series of AI agreements across the region's telecoms sector. The Vodafone Qatar memorandum does not say when Anees or any other service might launch, or what it would cost users.