Embrace the new workforce
A happy employee is a productive employee. So we decided a few months/years ago to give our sales teams something that would make them happy. We turned our break room into a modern Silicon Valley enclave, complete with foosball tables and a barista. Really nice stuff...
MBA versus future earnings …
The value of pursuing an MBA is increasingly coming under scrutiny, given the substantial investment of time and money, and in light of the fact that the qualification is no longer as sought-after as it was during its heyday. What is clear, however, is that an MBA...
Use analytics to drive action
What defines today's leading businesses is not that they collect data, but how they deploy it, writes Prathna Singh, digital lead for health and public service at Accenture in South Africa. More and more we see that today's digital marketplace demands a data-centric...
Inspiration Healthcare adopts Ideagen
Inspiration Healthcare Group, a global supplier of medical technology for critical care, operating theatre and home healthcare applications, is adopting software from Ideagen to enhance regulatory compliance and key operational processes. Ideagen Q-Pulse, Ideagen's...
Training the next generation of health entrepreneurs
Medical students receive excellent clinical training but they often graduate not knowing how to run a practice as a business. MediSwitch, a unit of JSE-listed Altron, is helping to change this by investing time and resources in training medical students by giving them...
A vision for digital health
We live in an unprecedented era of technological innovation, writes Nivashini Narsiah, technology consulting principal director for health and public sector at Accenture in South Africa. Digital breakthroughs are empowering healthcare organisations to improve labour...
MercyAscot puts data at the heart of operations
MercyAscot, one of New Zealand's largest private hospital providers, is leveraging the Qlik visual analytics platform to improve the quality of patient care. By effectively visualising and analysing data, MercyAscot now has a more accurate view of where operational...
Equra Health selects Datacentrix for specialist networking
Equra Health, a provider of radiation therapy facility services in South Africa, has chosen eNetworks as its key technology partner to enable better efficiencies throughout the company's IT network infrastructure. Operating from its headquarters in Cape Town, Equra...
Big data in healthcare: connecting the dots
The delivery of healthcare services in Africa is under pressure to change, and no-one can be certain how the industry will evolve. What can be certain is that future trends will be driven by access to Big Data, to shape new models of care in driving innovative,...
Is your healthcare data safe?
There are three questions you should ask, according to Paul Williams, country manager: southern Africa at Fortinet In the all-out war for data, the healthcare industry is getting hit the hardest. Experian's fourth annual 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast states that...
PPPs best for delivering healthcare in Africa
Increased spending on healthcare in the public and private sectors across the African continent has resulted in improved health indicators and life expectancies. "But the progress of this improvement is extremely slow and not commensurate with the increase in...
New medical app launches in SA
The Medici secure messaging app that enables users to communicate virtually with medical providers via text, call or video, is now available in South Africa and will expand into the rest of Africa. First launched in the US, the app hosts an array of practitioners...