Acquisition boosts online healthcare market

Nov 20, 2015

Healthcare comparison site WhatClinic.com has announced its strategic acquisition of UK dental booking site Toothpick.com. The move will introduce the frictionless booking of Toothpick’s software to hundreds of clinics listed in South Africa. WhatClinic has been...

Why Blockchain matters

Nov 19, 2015

With Blockchain creating waves in the banking industry, business transformation solutions provider, Ovations, looks into who it will affect the most as well as the opportunities it presents for the market as a whole.

Lessons learnt from a telehealth deployment

Nov 18, 2015

A new IDC Health Insights study, “Empowering Patients and Improving Quality of Care: Telehealth and Telecare in Cornwall”, looks at how the Cornwall local council and National Health Services (NHS), together with their partner BT, sought to address the...

How retailers can protect against data breaches

Nov 18, 2015

During the recent Retail Congress Africa in Cape Town, MasterCard addressed various issues impacting retailers across Africa. A key topic discussed was the protection of data and what retailers can do to protect themselves from data breaches. Retailers have much to...

IT transforms service delivery for the healthcare sector

Nov 18, 2015

Access to quality healthcare is considered a basic human right, however, the South African healthcare sector is faced with numerous challenges that impede this essential service delivery. By Johann Joubert, sales manager: Africa at T-Systems South Africa. A shortage...

Big data revolution has arrived in sport

Nov 17, 2015

We are still in the early stages of a new era in sport: the era of big data. Most sports fans love statistics.  Goals, points, runs, saves. They are the tools of the trade. But it’s only recently that we started paying attention to advance data, or analytics,...