Arabic clinic management: booking, reception, the visit, the prescription and the books in one place
Zahw (زهو) is an Arabic-first clinic management web app for private clinics in Egypt. Patients book from the clinic's own link, reception confirms and runs the queue, the nurse records vital signs, the doctor writes the visit and an electronic prescription, and the invoice and journal entries are created automatically. Each role in the team gets its own workspace on a phone or a desktop. Built by Abo-Elmakarem Shohoud.
In a small private clinic, information is scattered across an appointment book, phone calls, WhatsApp messages, paper prescriptions and a ledger. The patient does not know whether the booking is confirmed, reception cannot see the whole queue, the doctor writes prescriptions by hand, and the owner learns the day's revenue only at night.
Most available software is built around another language, or shows every screen to every employee, so reception gets lost in accounting menus and the doctor in admin screens.
Zahw connects the whole journey in one place and gives each person in the clinic only what their job needs: the patient books from the clinic's link, reception confirms and checks them in, the nurse records vital signs, the doctor examines, writes the prescription and books the follow-up, the invoice is created on its own, and journal entries are posted automatically so the books stay balanced. The interface is Arabic, right to left, and works on a phone as well as on a desktop.
Each clinic gets a public page: the patient picks a service, then a day and a time from the slots that are really free, and sends a request without an account. It waits for reception to confirm.
A private link lets the patient follow the booking, cancel it or ask to move it. Reception or the doctor can send the link, the follow-up date or the prescription on WhatsApp in one tap.
Confirm requests, check the patient in with one tap, move them through the queue, see the day and the week, and collect invoices by any payment method.
The patient file (allergies, chronic conditions, past visits, lab and x-ray files), the exam, and a prescription with search across 23,000+ Egyptian medicines, AI dose suggestions and interaction and allergy alerts the doctor reviews, printed on A4 from several templates.
Ending the visit creates the invoice (insurance and partial payments included). Expenses, journal entries and a chart of accounts are kept automatically, and the debit always equals the credit.
The owner signs up alone, sets up the clinic in a short guided setup, then invites reception, nurses, accountants and other doctors with a link per role.
One clinic, five staff roles and the patient. Each role opens on its own workspace with at most four destinations, and the server checks every request against the role, so hiding a button is never the only protection. The platform operator runs a separate super-admin panel for subscriptions and has no clinic workspace.
Overview · Finance · Team · Settings
Current patient · Today's patients · Patients · My account
Today · Queue · Bookings · Collection
Queue · Patients · My account
Overview · Invoices · Expenses · Books
Booking page · «My appointments»
From production, on the fictional demo clinic «Al-Shifa Internal Medicine (demo)». No real patient data.
Full access, no credit card
Monthly subscription, no auto-renewal
Two months free compared with monthly
Arabic guides on no-shows, the waiting queue, e-prescriptions, clinic accounts and patient experience, each with its sources.
The storyThe clinic journey, the roles and the decisions behind an Arabic-first clinic system.
Zahw (زهو) is a clinic management web app for private clinics in Egypt, built by Abo-Elmakarem Shohoud. It covers online booking, reception and the waiting queue, vital signs, the doctor visit with an electronic prescription, invoices and automatic bookkeeping, with a separate workspace for the owner, doctor, reception, nursing and the accountant.
There is a 7-day free trial with no credit card. After it, the subscription is 200 EGP a month or 2,000 EGP a year, and it does not renew automatically.
No. Zahw runs in the browser on a desktop, tablet or phone, so every member of the team works from their own device. It needs an internet connection.
Each role has its own workspace and the server enforces the permissions: reception confirms bookings and collects payments but cannot open prescriptions or the books; nursing records vital signs and reads prescriptions; the accountant works on invoices, expenses and the books; the owner and doctors see everything, and only the owner manages the team.
Yes. The patient opens the clinic's booking link, picks a service and a free time, and enters a name and phone number. The request waits for reception to confirm, and a private «My appointments» link lets the patient follow, cancel or ask to move it.
Not today. Reception or the doctor sends the appointment, the follow-up or the «My appointments» link on WhatsApp in one tap: Zahw prepares the message and the user sends it.
Built by Abo-Elmakarem Shohoud, CTO and full-stack engineer in Cairo. The same approach, one journey with a clear owner for every step, is what he brings to companies in digital transformation consulting. Also by him: Pharmacy Manual, an offline Egyptian drug index for Android.