Sep 9, 2021
South Africa is poised to start benefiting from a plethora of healthcare technologies which could dramatically improve patient care at a lower cost, boost preventative healthcare, and take the best medical practitioners virtually to the most underserved regions of the...
Aug 31, 2021
According to media reports, analysed data for South Africa suggests that the current wave of infections (wave 3) is expected to end around the end of August 2021, but that estimates indicate the fourth wave could start around 2 December – comparable to wave 3...
Aug 20, 2021
Perhaps more than any other sector, healthcare has been under significant pressure since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic early last year. By Tony Nkuna, senior solutions consultant and integrations specialist at TechSoft International The demands placed on...
Jul 30, 2021
It may sound counterintuitive but one of the major challenges governments across the globe faced at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was actually keeping people away from hospitals. In part, because of an inability to scale up human labour and resources fast...
Jul 28, 2021
As healthcare organisations across South Africa scramble to cope with huge surges in patient numbers in the wake of the third wave of COVID-19, it is clear the virus makes no exemptions in its attack. Our economy has been hit hard and almost every sector has faced...
Jul 23, 2021
As the country hardest-hit by the coronavirus on the continent, South Africa has been regrettably slow with its vaccine rollout, writes Mervyn George, executive advisor: strategic engagements at SAP Africa. A first phase, which focused on healthcare workers, concluded...