Healthcare
African enterprises warm up to Blockchain technology
Blockchain is a record-keeping technology designed to make it impossible to hack the system or forge the data stored on it, thereby making it secure and immutable. It is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
Afiswitch MD says biometrics is the future of healthcare
Pine Pienaar, Managing Director at Afiswitch, looks at how biometrics is being used in the healthcare profession. The idea of using biometrics in the healthcare sector is not new, but it is one that hasn’t been e...
Integration in the healthcare industry requires the right tools
Although there has been a widespread adoption of electronic health records, the integration of healthcare data remains a crucial challenge for the healthcare industry as it endeavours to achieve interoperability. In...
Digital Transformation key to next generation healthcare in Africa
The benefits of the digital revolution to the healthcare sector in Africa are enormous, yet many angles must be considered if it is to prove successful. There are many people around the world who fall through the...
IT Integration: Cquential helps Cipla save lives with intelligent warehouse...
Global pharmaceutical company Cipla manufactures more than 1,500 products, with its South African subsidiary one of the country’s market leaders in terms of value and volume. To ensure the efficient delivery of its m...
Africa gears up for IoT transformation
A recent global survey by HP Enterprise of 3,000+ IT and business decision makers at the end of 2016, found that the Internet of Things has hit an inflection point in their minds. IoT is moving from good to great....
How can healthcare organisations overcome a COVID-19 data overload?
As we enter the second year of a global pandemic, it’s clear that COVID-19 makes no exemptions in its attack, our economies have been hit hard and almost every sector across the world has faced disruption, with many p...
First Digital launches easy to use POPIA compliance assessment toolkit
Most local businesses are aware that if they do not meet the compliance requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), South Africa’s data protection law, before this year’s deadline of 30 J...
How subscription models can support the future delivery of healthcare
If healthcare providers are to remain resilient when faced with curveballs like the current pandemic, they must adapt and operate with more advanced and robust business models to thrive. John Phillips, EMEA GM...
Intelligent automation improves patient outcomes
In healthcare, intelligent automation is the way of the future for improving patient outcomes, and alongside this, improving healthcare costs for all parties. For providers working to uphold a value-based care model...
Afiswitch MD says biometrics is the future of healthcare
Pine Pienaar, Managing Director at Afiswitch, looks at how biometrics is being used in the healthcare profession. The idea of using biometrics in the healthcare sector is not new, but it is one that hasn’t been e...
Integration in the healthcare industry requires the right tools
Although there has been a widespread adoption of electronic health records, the integration of healthcare data remains a crucial challenge for the healthcare industry as it endeavours to achieve interoperability. In...
How Intron Health is boosting healthcare systems in Africa through NLP and AI
Intron Health has trained its algorithms with data sets from clinicians across Africa to boost the accuracy of spoken medical terms, which a larger, more general-purpose platform would have struggled with. West...
EASE Ghana provides Siemens CT scanner to FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital under...
EASE Ghana, a subsidiary of African Asset Finance Company that provides state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment, as-a-service, to healthcare organisations, announced signing of its first customer. The contract, which...
Dimension Data enables Western Cape Blood Service to overcome...
In the face of a devastating cyberattack that threatened the provision of life-saving care by the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS), technology partner Dimension Data stepped in to swiftly assist in the recovery...
SAP and Converge Solutions deliver powerful healthcare solution for African...
Namibia is one of the countries benefitting from a SAP solution from Converge that is delivering a powerful healthcare solution for African hospitals. The most recent client that has implemented Converge’s SAP s...
Hospital equipment supplier benefits from Qlik Sense analytics
Decision Inc. has implemented the Qlik Sense next-generation analytics platform at Medical Innovations to enhance the data its sales team needs to drive growth while delivering more interactive reports. Medical...
Redstor rescues vets hit by ransomware attack
Redstor, a leading provider of next-generation data management, has come to the rescue of a vets hit by a ransomware attack. Terry Wilson, the practice manager at South Africa-based Teva Veterinary Clinic, revealed...
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