How Dataflow Group is revolutionizing healthcare growth through trusted credentials and secure talent movement

In conversation with Rafi Hattar, Chief Commercial Officer at Dataflow Group

As healthcare systems across the Globe continue their rapid evolution, ensuring that medical professionals possess legitimate, verified credentials has become paramount. Rafi Hattar, Chief Commercial Officer at Dataflow Group, shares insights into how his organization is transforming trust and mobility in Rafi Hattar, Chief Commercial Officer at Dataflow Group healthcare across the region.

Middle East Health: Rafi, can you tell us about Dataflow Group’s role in the healthcare sector?

Rafi Hattar: Dataflow Group serves as a trusted Government partner, deliver­ing verification solutions across borders with the Latest Technology Available that grants the best experience to practitioners and regulators. Healthcare operates on trust – trust that demands rigorous creden­tial verification. As global healthcare pro­fessional mobility surges to address talent shortages, it also opens doors to credential fraud. We empower governments, regula­tors, healthcare enterprises, and individ­ual professionals to navigate cross-border workforce migration with confidence. As the world’s trusted verification provider, we guide healthcare professionals through their entire career journey. Our accessible, practitioner centric ecosystem transforms credentials into universally recognized, verified professional assets across more than 195 countries. A single unqualified practitioner can jeopardize patient safety and institutional reputation – our verifica­tion processes eliminate these risks, ensur­ing seamless global talent movement and enabling healthcare professionals to pur­sue opportunities worldwide.

Middle East Health: What makes Dataflow Group unique in today’s healthcare landscape?

Rafi Hattar: We position ourselves as the perfect government partner, providing digital, tech-driven solutions that span cross-ge­ographies. The healthcare industry oper­ates on trust, but that trust must be backed by rigorous verification. We’re witnessing unprecedented mobility of healthcare pro­fessionals globally, which addresses talent shortages but also creates opportunities for credential fraud. As the world’s trusted veri­fication solutions provider, we deliver solu­tions that empower governments, business­es, and individual healthcare professionals to navigate cross-border workforce migra­tion with confidence. A single unqualified practitioner can compromise patient safety and damage institutional reputation – our verification processes eliminate these risks across more than 195 countries.

Middle East Health: How does Dataflow Group’s verifi­cation ecosystem work?

Rafi Hattar: We’ve developed a comprehensive approach that goes directly to the source through primary source verification – the gold standard in credential authentica­tion. Rather than accepting documents at face value, we verify credentials di­rectly with issuing institutions including universities, medical boards, licensing authorities, and previous employers. Our platform integrates seamlessly with regu­latory authorities across the GCC and Middle East, including health ministries and medical councils. What sets us apart is our practitioner centric approach – we’re not just processing documents, we’re sup­porting healthcare professionals’ career journeys while providing governments and regulatory bodies with the confidence they need to attract global medical talent and helping healthcare businesses solidify their confidence in their workforce.

Middle East Health: What solutions does Dataflow Group offer specifically for healthcare or­ganizations?

Rafi Hattar: We provide tech-driven solutions purpose-built end-to-end for healthcare organizations. Our core services include educational qualification verification, pro­fessional license validation, employment history verification, as well as many layers of rigorous verifications, all through pri­mary source verification, the gold standard. We verify credentials directly with issuing institutions including universities, medical boards, licensing authorities, and previ­ous employers, with seamless integration across regulatory authorities in the GCC and Middle East. For regulatory bodies and ministries of health, we serve as their trust­ed collaborator in processing applications efficiently while maintaining the highest verification standards. For large healthcare groups, our proprietary platform delivers real-time tracking, comprehensive reporting, full audit trails, and continuous monitoring that alerts institutions to any changes in license status or disciplinary actions. What sets us apart is our practitioner centric ap­proach – we’re supporting healthcare pro­fessionals’ career journeys and providing governments confidence to attract global medical talent and helping healthcare busi­nesses build workforce trust.

Middle East Health: How is technology shaping Data-flow Group’s solutions?

Rafi Hattar: We remain committed to embrac­ing emerging technologies and staying ahead of current technology trends, con­tinuously enhancing the experience for both our corporate clients and individual healthcare professionals throughout their journey. As Technology enhances our core strength – the trusted relationships we’ve built with institutions, universities, and hospitals worldwide. Our digital platforms provide transparency, speed, and real-time updates, designed to amplify efficiency while preserving human expertise. We leverage secure data exchange protocols, blockchain-ready infrastructure, and AI-powered document analysis to streamline routine tasks, allowing our team to focus on working on in-depth analysis and infor­mation exchange with issuing bodies.

Our verification process is underpinned by long-established relationships with the issuing authorities – a network that com­plements our technological tools. While healthcare institutions and professionals benefit from intuitive digital portals and certificates, the precision and confidence in our service are rooted in our global institu­tional partnerships. We function as a criti­cal link, leveraging technology to stream­line processes while ensuring that proven talent is connected with meaningful oppor­tunities through trusted collaboration.

Middle East Health: What impact has Dataflow Group made on healthcare quality in the region?

Rafi Hattar: Over two decades, we’ve verified credentials for millions of healthcare pro­fessionals across the Middle East and glob­ally. By ensuring only qualified, legitimate professionals enter the healthcare work­force, we’ve contributed to maintaining and elevating clinical standards region-wide. Our partnerships with governments, ministries of health, and medical councils have positioned us as their trusted partner in attracting global medical talent while establishing verification best practices that protect patients. We serve as a trusted Destination to healthcare professionals, supporting their career mobility, while equipping governments and official bod­ies with the confidence they need in their healthcare workforce. Beyond being a ser­vice provider, we’re a catalyst for building trusted healthcare systems that facilitate talent movement the right way.

Middle East Health: What’s the vision for Dataflow Group moving forward?

Rafi Hattar: Our focus remains on leveraging digi­tal, tech, and AI-driven innovations to make verification faster, more secure, and more accessible globally. We’re expand­ing our network of verification sources and strengthening our ecosystem to bet­ter serve healthcare professionals, regula­tory bodies, and healthcare enterprises. As the Middle East positions itself as a global healthcare destination, Dataflow Group will continue as the right-hand partner to governments and regulators, ensuring that excellence in credentials matches excel­lence in care delivery.