Small healthcare providers under siege
Millions of very small businesses with fewer than 20 employees, ranging from dentist offices, financial advisors, independent legal counsellors, IT consulting firms, and other companies are focused on their core competency and win by that. At the same time many of...
Discovery HealthID now on Samsung devices
Samsung Electronics South Africa has announced that the Discovery HealthID mobile application is now available on Samsung GALAXY tablet devices, providing a convenient way for doctors to access Discovery Health members’ electronic health records. HealthID is an...
Orange, Weinmann develop homecareONLINE
In close co-operation, Orange Business Services and Weinmann, a global manufacturer of therapeutic system solutions in sleep medicine and ventilation, have developed homecareONLINE, a fully-integrated, end-to-end connected medical device solution for sleep therapy....
The benefits of analytics in healthcare
In any industry, the organisations that can adapt quickly and intelligently to changing market forces will succeed in the long term. In the health industry in particular, organisations need to contain costs and respond quickly to changes globally and locally. There...
Building a connected communications hub
While video conferencing and collaboration technology has already come of age, South Africa's medical industry is still grappling with connectivity issues to provide effective services to patients remotely. Telemedicine, which can be broadly defined as medical...
Integrated service management in healthcare
Information technology (IT) has revolutionised the healthcare sector, offering more sophisticated diagnostic machines and procedures as well as more efficient ways of processing admissions and patient information, along with the ability to better manage all of the...
Oracle announces InForm GTM 6.0
Oracle Health Sciences has announced the availability of Oracle Health Sciences InForm GTM 6.0 with Oracle Health Sciences Central Designer 2.0, the latest release in Oracle’s e-clinical solutions suite. The solution provides trial sponsors and contract research...
Datacentrix wins two government tenders
The Western Cape Government has appointed Datacentrix, one of South Africa’s leading empowered services-led solution integrators, to help implement an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy within its Department of Health (DoH) facilities across the province....
Web site helps users locate health services
A new interactive mapping Web site, FPD Compass, has been launched with the aim of providing consumers with an easily accessible way to locate all health-related services in their area. Grant Shippey, CEO of Amorphous, the solutions focussed digital marketing agency,...
Etisalat, GSMA battle against diabetes
The Etisalat Group is throwing its full support behind a GSMA initiative to find effective technological solutions for the epidemic of diabetes. In September, a team of the company’s most determined employees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia will participate in a...
Khayelitsha Hospital wins award
The Western Cape’s Khayelitsha Hospital has scooped yet another award – this time garnering the Ministerial Award for National and International Contribution in the Arts and Culture, Language, Heritage, Geographical Names, Museums, Libraries or Archives fields from...
Hospitals, clinics benefit from WebFOCUS
Using Information Builders’ WebFOCUS BI platform, clinics are able to provide better services using WebFOCUS for administration and enhance data sharing capabilities. IT professionals generally wrestle with silos of data that are difficult to link together. These data...