VitalSync is a clinical AI company founded in Kuala Lumpur to solve one of healthcare's most persistent and underestimated problems — alarm fatigue in intensive care.
VitalSync began with a question that turned out to be harder to answer than it looked: why do ICU nurses stop responding to alarms that might save lives?
Abderrahman and Hamizan Naeem encountered this problem firsthand — through conversations with nurses at Malaysian hospitals who described the cognitive exhaustion of managing hundreds of alarms per shift, most of them meaningless. The "crying wolf" effect. The moral injury of knowing something might be missed.
The data was already there — in the monitors, the pumps, the ventilators, the EHR. The problem was that no one was listening to all of it at once. VitalSync was built to be that listener.
of ICU alarms classified as non-actionable in peer-reviewed literature — yet each one still demands a nurse's attention.
Malaysia Hub Winner. Harvard HSIL Hackathon recognition. VitalSync is built in Malaysia, for Asia-Pacific — and the world.
We build AI infrastructure that makes clinical alarms trustworthy again — so nurses can respond with confidence, physicians can decide with context, and patients can recover in a quieter, safer environment.
A future where no nurse misses a critical event because they were too burned out from false alarms to hear it. Where no patient's recovery is disrupted by noise that a machine could have prevented. Where the data hospitals already collect actually saves lives.
In clinical settings, ambiguity costs lives. We build systems that reduce noise, sharpen signal, and make the important thing obviously important — at every level, from bedside to boardroom.
Nurses are the primary users of our system. If a feature doesn't make their shift better, we don't ship it. Clinical relevance is defined by the people doing the work, not by the engineers building the tools.
Black-box AI has no place in a hospital. Every recommendation VitalSync makes is explainable, traceable, and auditable. Clinicians always know why an alert was generated — and can always override it.
Alarm fatigue is a systems problem — not a technology problem, not a staffing problem, not a device problem. We approach it as such, building solutions that address the full ecosystem, not individual symptoms.
Leads VitalSync's AI architecture, signal processing pipeline, and edge inference systems. Responsible for the models that classify alarms, detect deterioration, and fuse cross-device signals into a coherent clinical picture.
Leads product design, frontend engineering, and hospital systems integration. Translates clinical requirements into interfaces nurses and physicians actually use — and integration layers that connect to any hospital's device stack.
Brings deep clinical ICU expertise to VitalSync's product development. Guides alarm threshold design, clinical workflow integration, and ensures the system reflects how intensive care actually works — not how engineers imagine it does.
Provides specialist clinical guidance on patient safety, care quality, and regulatory alignment. Advises on the clinical validation methodology that underpins VitalSync's evidence base and MOH compliance pathway.
Cheras, Kuala Lumpur — An active deployment and clinical partnership. VitalSync is piloting its edge-AI alarm management platform with UCSI's ICU and critical care team.
National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur — Malaysia's leading cardiac centre. Partnership focused on cardiac ICU alarm management and multi-device integration in high-acuity cardiac settings.