Sep 30, 2020
At the time of writing this, South Africa’s healthcare sector had conducted nearly four million Covid-19 tests with just under 650 000 positive cases identified. By Mervyn George, executive advisor: innovation strategy at SAP Africa While infection rates...
Sep 22, 2020
Health workers serving remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must often undertake a six-day return journey to collect vaccines, traversing dense tropical forests and often the raging Congo River and its tributaries. Drone technology is offering...
Sep 16, 2020
A shortage of budget to implement progressive e-health strategies means that South Africa’s public sector healthcare institutions face the common challenge of not being able to collate patient records across different facilities in a simple and transparent...
Sep 7, 2020
While healthcare providers must accelerate their digital health maturity as it directly improves operational efficiencies, quality of patient care and improves protection of personal and sensitive information, it also provides a greater platform and risk for...
Sep 1, 2020
Cloud computing isn’t exactly a new concept in the healthcare industry. By Ronald Ravel, director: B2B South Africa at dynabook South Africa Its benefits have become increasingly well-known across the sector and, without it, we wouldn’t have many...
Aug 3, 2020
Around the world, healthcare is a business vertical like any other. Hospitals exist and operate within the healthcare arena with the ethical purpose of providing the best possible healthcare to the patients, while at the same time being able to generate profits in...