Yaseen Khan
CEO & Co-Founder
Dr. Yaseen Khan is a South African medical doctor and technology entrepreneur, and the CEO & Co-Founder of EMGuidance (Essential Medical Guidance).
EMGuidance develops digitally enabled clinical intelligence and decision support solutions for healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations. Its platform is used nationally by
more than 140,000 registered healthcare professionals and provides integrated clinical technologies and services to over 50 healthcare organisations and enterprise partners across South Africa.
Dr. Khan leads the company's strategy across clinical science, artificial intelligence and digital health, working alongside multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, engineers and data scientists. His work sits at the intersection of medicine, technology and healthcare systems, with a particular interest in how innovation can strengthen clinical decision-making while remaining evidence-based, ethical and centred on the needs of patients and healthcare professionals.
He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSc Clin Epi) from Stellenbosch University. His master's research evaluated clinical decision support technology among nurses in South Africa. He also holds a Diploma in Primary Emergency Care (Dip PEC) from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) and has practised extensively in both primary care and emergency medicine across the South African public and private healthcare sectors.
