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About Helix

Helix began in the exam room, not a boardroom

Helix is led by a doctor who was tired of disconnected systems getting in the way of care. It is the practice management software he wished he had: built by doctors, made in Dubai, and shaped every day by the doctors, nurses and admins who use it.

Made in Dubai · since 2017
Our story

We sat on the other side of the desk

Dr. Mohamed Nasr is a medical doctor. In clinical practice he lived the fragmentation every doctor knows: disconnected workflows, poor traceability, and tools that got in the way of care instead of supporting it.

A doctor who also holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Liverpool, he spent the next decade building the alternative: one system for the whole practice, shaped with the doctors, nurses and admins who use it every day.

2017

Optimus is established in Dubai and Helix development begins.

2018

Helix launches, and enters Saudi Arabia.

2019

Backed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund. Helix enters Egypt.

2020

Verto beta, and three new modules.

2021

Helix is released as SaaS in the UAE.

2022

1M patients and 2.5M encounters on the platform.

2023

New markets and partnerships.

2024

Labs and PACS, with HL7 and FHIR interoperability.

2025

AI and automation across the platform.

2026

Verto becomes an AI workforce: scribe, copilot and missions.

Our mission

Improve lives through healthcare innovation — by giving every practice one intelligent system, and every clinician their time back for patients.

Our principles

Three principles behind every release

Make clinical work easier

Every feature has to earn its place by reducing admin burden for doctors, nurses and front-desk teams.

Unify the entire patient journey

From the ad a patient clicked, to the WhatsApp chat, the booking, the chart, the product given and the invoice — one system, fully traceable.

Let AI do the busywork, under your control

Verto documents, answers, watches and chases. Every consequential action stays a human decision, with the evidence in front of you.