Healthcare must prepare for the next wave of cyberattacks

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...

Cloud versus edge: rethinking healthcare infrastructure

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...

PPO provides Mediclinic with maturity assessment

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...

Securing mobile working in healthcare

Dramatic developments in digital technologies have fuelled the growth and need for a mobile workforce, with the number of mobile workers predicted to climb to 1,87-billion by 2022 – accounting for almost half (42,5%) of the global workforce. By Ronald Ravel,...

Managing laboratory information during the pandemic

When the Centre for Proteomic & Genomic Research (CPGR) realised that there was an emergent testing shortfall for Covid-19 in March this year, the organisation sought to create a solution that would be suitable for rapid production and rollout in South Africa....