Author: Dr. Samer Al-Diri
Integrated Care Is Strategy: The Executive Operating Model for High-Performance Health Systems
Integrated care is no longer a downstream coordination function. It is an executive operating model connecting governance, population health, clinical pathways, workforce, digital intelligence and value across the patient journey.
Building Resilient Health Systems in Humanitarian Crises
Humanitarian crises fracture the pathways that make care dependable. This policy analysis presents an adaptive stewardship framework for converting evidence into accountable decisions, protecting continuity of care, and embedding recovery in resilient, locally supportable health systems.
The Prevention Liability: The Hidden Balance Sheet of Delayed Care
Prevention liability is the hidden clinical, financial and societal burden created when manageable risk remains unresolved until recovery narrows or is lost. A board-level framework for governing time-sensitive prevention across the life course.
Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Global Health-Systems Framework for Preventing Childhood Blindness through Neonatal Safety, Screening Governance, and Lifelong Vision Protection
This flagship article presents a global health-systems framework for preventing blindness from retinopathy of prematurity by strengthening neonatal safety, screening governance, timely treatment activation, accountability, and lifelong vision protection across diverse healthcare settings.
Amblyopia as a Preventable Public Health Failure: Childhood Vision Screening, AI-Enabled Pathways, and the Future of Preventive Eye Care
Amblyopia is reframed as a preventable childhood vision pathway failure when screening is not connected to diagnosis, spectacle access, treatment support, family activation, follow-up, and protected functional vision. This flagship reference article explores childhood vision screening, AI-enabled pathways, and preventive eye care through a public-health and health-system framework.
Building Resilient Health Systems: A Healthcare Management Framework for Governance, Workforce Readiness and Digital Transformation
This flagship article presents resilient health systems as a healthcare management challenge involving governance, workforce readiness, digital transformation, operational continuity, quality, supply-chain resilience, and public trust. It introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Resilient Health Systems Framework for leaders seeking to protect essential services and strengthen sustainable health-system performance.
AI in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: The Breakthrough Is the Care Pathway, Not Just the Algorithm
This article explains why AI in diabetic retinopathy screening should be judged by its ability to improve the full care pathway, not only by algorithm accuracy. It highlights how AI-assisted screening can support referral uptake, faster communication, coordinated follow-up, and safer screening-to-treatment pathways for people with diabetes. The article positions diabetic retinopathy AI as a health-system redesign tool for ophthalmology, diabetes care, public health, and digital health governance.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Population Ageing, Health-System Impact, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Sustainable Vision Care
This flagship reference publication examines age-related macular degeneration as a growing clinical, public-health, ageing-society, and health-system challenge. It connects population ageing, retinal disease burden, treatment sustainability, geographic atrophy innovation, artificial intelligence, workforce capacity, and lifelong vision care. The article introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Sustainable Vision Care Framework for retina specialists, policymakers, healthcare executives, public-health leaders, and AI-health stakeholders.
Healthcare AI Governance: Institutional Leadership, Workforce Readiness, and Patient-Centred Accountability as Foundations for Sustainable Healthcare Transformation
This flagship article presents healthcare AI governance as a leadership, workforce, safety, and accountability challenge rather than a technology-only issue. It explains why sustainable AI adoption requires institutional governance, clinical oversight, patient-centred safeguards, workforce readiness, and measurable accountability. The article introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Governance-Centred Healthcare Transformation Framework for healthcare leaders, clinicians, policymakers, public-health professionals, and digital transformation teams.
Diabetic Retinopathy: A Preventable Cause of Blindness, Global Burden, Health System Impact, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Vision Care
This flagship reference publication examines diabetic retinopathy as a preventable cause of blindness and a major global health-system challenge. It connects ophthalmology, diabetes care, screening governance, artificial intelligence, public health, equity, referral pathways, treatment access, and long-term vision protection. The article introduces Dr. Samer Al-Diri’s Diabetic Retinopathy Transformation Framework for clinicians, policymakers, healthcare leaders, screening programme designers, and AI-health stakeholders.