About this blog

What this blog is about

This blog has one focus: digital health for doctors in developing countries.

Not digital health in general. Not the latest EMR news from Silicon Valley. Not articles about HIPAA compliance or US insurance billing. Specifically, and deliberately: the 80% of the world's doctors who practice in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia — and who have been systematically ignored by the mainstream medical software industry.

Every article published here starts from a simple question: what would actually help a solo practitioner in Dakar, Beirut, or Colombo manage their practice more efficiently, with the tools they already have, in the economic reality they actually live in?

Who writes it

Every article on this blog is written by Dr. Sadok Derouich — a practicing gynecologist since 2012, digital health entrepreneur, and CEO of doctoLys.

This is not a content team. There is no ghost writer. Every observation, every clinical example, and every product insight comes from someone who has been on both sides of the problem: a doctor who spent years frustrated by the absence of tools designed for his context, and a software developer who eventually built the solution himself.

That combination — clinician and product developer — is what gives this blog its specific point of view. The articles are not written by a marketing team promoting a product. They are written by a practitioner who built a product because he could not find what he needed, and who continues to practice medicine while running the company.

What you will find here

The articles on this blog cluster around five themes:

EMR adoption in developing countries — why existing solutions fail, what the structural barriers are, and what a different design philosophy looks like in practice.

Mobile-first medicine — why the smartphone is not just a convenience but the architecturally correct platform for medical records in markets that leapfrogged the PC era entirely.

Paper to digital transition — practical guides for doctors who want to go paperless without scanners, IT consultants, or migration projects.

Borderless medical software — the case for products designed from the ground up for global deployment, with no country lock-in, no currency restrictions, and no assumption that the user has a billing department.

AI in clinical practice — how generative AI is changing what is possible for a solo practitioner: multilingual voice dictation, automatic summarization, paper record digitization, and what comes next.

What this blog is not

This is not a news blog. We do not cover industry announcements, funding rounds, or regulatory updates.

This is not a patient-facing health blog. The audience is doctors and healthcare practitioners — people who understand clinical workflows and want to improve them.

This is not a promotional channel. doctoLys is mentioned when it is genuinely relevant as a solution to the problem being discussed. It is never the starting point of an article.

Why this matters

The digital health gap between wealthy and developing markets is not a technology problem. The technology exists. The gap is a product design problem — and a distribution problem. Most medical software was built for a market that represents less than 20% of the world's doctors, and sold through sales models that are incompatible with how the other 80% make decisions.

This blog exists to make the case, article by article, that it does not have to be this way.

Dr. Sadok Derouich is a practicing gynecologist since 2012, founder of Cynalys, and CEO of doctoLys — the AI medical office app built for doctors worldwide.