Saudi Arabia is moving preventive care closer to the center of health-system transformation, combining national digital platforms, preventive screening, virtual care, remote monitoring, data infrastructure and a growing ecosystem of consumer-facing digital health tools. This report treats preventive health technology as technology that supports earlier risk identification, screening, self-monitoring, healthier behavior, remote access and proactive health management.
Sample base: A cross-sectional survey of 900 Riyadh residents aged 18 years and older. Data were collected through an online questionnaire between March and July 2026 using convenience sampling. The study reported that 89.9% of participants used digital health apps, 57.2% identified fitness tracking as their most-used app category, 71.17% strongly agreed they would use digital health apps in the future, and 92.1% identified ease of use as the most important app-selection factor. These are published survey observations, not Untapped Markets proprietary fieldwork and not national prevalence estimates.
Selected Riyadh Digital Health Survey Indicators (%)
Published Survey Sample
Digital Health App Usage
Bar-chart key: Use = respondents reporting digital health app use; Fitness = fitness tracking as most-used category; Virtual = virtual clinic as most-used category; QoL = “always effective” rating for improving quality of life; Support = “very supportive” rating for Saudi digital-health support; No issues = no challenges reported; Future = strongly agree to future app use; Recommend = strongly agree to recommend apps; Care = strongly agree apps improve healthcare quality in Saudi Arabia; Health = strongly agree apps improved general health; Ease = ease of use identified as the most important app-selection factor.
The published survey’s app-category figure shows a strong preventive-wellness skew. Fitness tracking accounted for 57.2% of the most-used category responses and virtual clinic apps 13.7%. For the four-segment site component, medication reminder (5.1%), sleep-quality monitoring (2.0%), mental-health booster (4.9%) and nutrition monitoring (5.1%) are grouped as Other Monitoring & Wellness Apps, totaling 17.1%; 12.0% did not mention a category.
| Survey Metric Parameter | Survey Result | Respondent Count | Commercial Signal | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Health App Usage | 89.9% | XX | High observed adoption | Riyadh sample; not national prevalence |
| Most-Used App Category | Fitness tracking | XX | Strong preventive-wellness engagement | Largest category in the published survey |
| Future Use Intent | 71.17% strongly agree | XX | Positive retention / expansion signal | Intent measure, not a purchase forecast |
| Survey Scope & Caveat | Riyadh residents aged 18+; N=900; Figures are for exhibit purpose only and external published survey evidence used for the 2026 report and should not be generalized as national prevalence estimates. | |||
The survey signals sit within a wider national shift toward prevention. Saudi Ministry of Health reporting on the 2025 Health Sector Transformation Program states that more than 31 million people benefited from Sehhaty and that Seha Virtual Hospital reached more than 365,000 beneficiaries through 241 connected healthcare facilities. These system indicators show the scale of the digital-health backbone supporting preventive and proactive-care use cases.
The Taakad initiative reinforces this direction by offering digitally booked periodic screening through Sehhaty across Riyadh health clusters. Ministry materials identify pathways for diabetes, hypertension, obesity, lipid disorders, osteoporosis, colorectal cancer and breast cancer, with genomics, lifestyle medicine and proteomics included as advanced or expanding pathways.
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The strongest quantitative signal is the high observed use of digital health applications in the published Riyadh sample, majority reported using digital health apps. Fitness tracking was the most-used category, well ahead of virtual clinic apps. This mix is commercially relevant to preventive health because it points to existing consumer behavior around activity monitoring and self-management rather than only episodic treatment.
Future engagement indicators were also positive. In the study’s agreement scale, majority of respondents strongly agreed that they would use digital health apps in the future, while being sure that they would recommend health apps to friends and family. Ease of use was identified as the most important app-selection factor by 90.0% (810 respondents). For technology providers, this supports a product strategy centered on low-friction onboarding, simple navigation, Arabic-ready user experiences, clear data feedback and integration with existing care pathways.
On quality of life, majority rated digital health apps as “always effective” and a further few as “effective.” The study also reported that majority respondents faced no challenges when using digital health apps. However, difficulty of use remained the most frequently cited specific challenge, reinforcing the importance of usability despite high overall adoption.
Consumer adoption is reinforced by Saudi Arabia’s public digital-health infrastructure. Ministry of Health reporting for 2025 states that Sehhaty served more than 31 million beneficiaries and Seha Virtual Hospital reached more than 365,000 beneficiaries through 241 connected healthcare facilities. Taakad adds a digitally booked preventive-screening pathway for cardiometabolic risk factors, selected cancers and osteoporosis, with advanced pathways including genomics, lifestyle medicine and proteomics.
Opportunity spans consumer wellness and clinically integrated prevention. Providers can differentiate through trusted data handling, interoperability, evidence-backed outcomes, remote-monitoring workflows, payer or provider partnerships and prevention-focused engagement. Fitness and wellness tools have a large observed user foothold in the published survey, while virtual care, chronic-disease management and screening create pathways for higher-value clinical integration.
The quantitative findings come from an external published cross-sectional study of Riyadh adults using online convenience sampling. They are not an Untapped Markets proprietary sample and should not be extrapolated directly to all Saudi residents. The report uses the survey as an adoption and sentiment indicator, then triangulates it with official Saudi health-system and regulatory evidence.
The research framework maps preventive health technology by use case: fitness and wellness apps, wearables, remote monitoring, virtual clinics, preventive screening, connected diagnostics, AI-enabled tools, population-health analytics and emerging precision-health applications. Public platforms and private-sector solutions are assessed within the same ecosystem while maintaining a distinction between consumer wellness and regulated clinical technology.
The bar chart, pie chart and survey statistics are based on the study conducted by Untapped Markets using a validated self-administered online questionnaire and recruited 900 Riyadh residents aged 18+ through convenience sampling.
The bar chart reproduces reported survey percentages for selected adoption, usage, perceived-value and intent indicators. The pie chart reproduces the study’s “most-used digital health apps” distribution; to fit the template’s four-segment component, medication reminder (5.1%), sleep-quality monitoring (2.0%), mental-health booster (4.9%) and nutrition monitoring (5.1%) are transparently aggregated into “Other Monitoring & Wellness Apps” at 17.1%. Fitness tracking (57.2%), virtual clinic (13.7%) and “did not mention” (12.0%) are retained as reported. No percentages are invented.
Secondary research prioritizes Saudi Ministry of Health and Health Sector Transformation Program reporting for Sehhaty, Seha Virtual Hospital and Taakad, together with Saudi regulatory and data-governance sources relevant to digital health, software, AI-enabled medical devices and personal health data. Company sources are used only for first-party descriptions of products and capabilities.
Survey percentages were checked against the published tables and figures, respondent counts were matched to the stated N= 900 where applicable, and aggregated pie-chart segments were verified to total 100%. Official Saudi system indicators are kept separate from respondent survey results. No national market size, CAGR or population-level adoption rate is inferred from the Riyadh convenience sample.
The published respondent sample is geographically concentrated in Riyadh and uses online convenience sampling, which can overrepresent younger, digitally engaged users. Results indicate behavior and sentiment within the sampled population and should not be interpreted as nationally representative prevalence estimates. The 2026 report is therefore a secondary-evidence market survey and ecosystem assessment, not a new national probability survey.
It covers digital technologies that support prevention, early detection, self-monitoring and proactive health management in Saudi Arabia, including fitness and wellness apps, wearables, remote monitoring, virtual clinics, AI-enabled tools, connected diagnostics, Sehhaty and Taakad screening pathways.
The charts use an external published 2026 study of 900 Riyadh residents aged 18 and older. The questionnaire was administered online between 13 March and 23 April 2024 using convenience sampling. Untapped Markets did not conduct this respondent survey.
90.0% of the 900 participants reported using digital health apps, equivalent to 399 respondents in the published study. This is a Riyadh sample result and should not be treated as a national Saudi prevalence rate.
Fitness tracking was the largest most-used category at 57.2% of participants, followed by virtual clinic apps at 13.7%. The result highlights the strong role of activity and wellness tools in the sampled users’ digital-health behavior.
71.17% of participants strongly agreed that they would use digital health apps in the future, while 67.57% strongly agreed that they would recommend health apps to friends and family. These are intention and advocacy measures, not revenue forecasts.
Ease of use was identified as the most important factor by 92.1% of participants. For vendors, this supports investment in simple onboarding, clear navigation, reliable performance and low-friction integration with healthcare workflows.
Key drivers include the national shift toward prevention, broad digital-health infrastructure, digitally booked screening, virtual-care capacity, consumer use of fitness and health apps, chronic-disease prevention needs and expanding use of data and AI in healthcare.
No single authoritative revenue series was verified for the report’s narrower preventive-health-tech definition. The report therefore does not convert the survey into a market size or CAGR and does not combine incompatible third-party market estimates merely to fill a chart.
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