Kazakhstan’s AI solutions in healthcare are moving from development to practical application and scaling. Experts and industry representatives discussed the development of domestic MedTech and the prospects for such startups to enter international markets at a special roundtable in Astana. The agenda focused on the implementation and testing of AI systems, access to medical data, and the conditions for bringing them to market. One of the successful projects is the domestic CerebraAI system, designed for the early detection of stroke. It is already being used in several medical centers in Kazakhstan. According to the developers, the technology has helped reduce the time from a patient’s admission to the start of treatment threefold. The company plans to expand the use of its technologies both in Kazakhstan and abroad. It has already signed a five-year strategic partnership with a major U.S. healthcare group. The cooperation provides for further development of the platform and expansion of its capabilities beyond stroke diagnosis. To enter international markets, the Kazakh-developed solution is undergoing the necessary regulatory procedures.
«We have entered the U.S. and Uzbekistan, where we are currently undergoing certification. We are not selling there yet; we are building up our body of evidence. Once we complete the certification process, we will gradually start building up sales in the U.S. Until 2026, we focused exclusively on the brain and stroke. At the beginning of 2026, we started expanding into brain oncology, specifically conditions within the brain, and into cardiology, specifically echocardiography. In other words, we are evolving from a narrow AI solution into a multimodal solution,» said Doszhan Zhussupov, founder and CEO of CerebraAI.
«Our AI companies are trying to use anonymized data from Kazakh citizens to train their models, making them as accurate as possible and enabling them to genuinely assist doctors in studying diseases. Some medical AI systems are being exported to the UAE and, if I’m not mistaken, to Saudi Arabia as well,» said Aidar Kassenov, Deputy Director of the Department of E-Health Development at the Kazakh Health Ministry.
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