by Dianne Bayley | Mar 17, 2021 | Innovation
South Africa’s growing elderly population (people aged 60 and over) is putting the spotlight on finding better ways to care for a demographic that numbers more than 9% of the country’s citizen, writes By Rudi Potgieter, Executive Head of Guardian Eye at Vox. With 55%...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2020 | Innovation
Blockchain’s distributed-ledger functionality lets multiple users verify information, helping to ensure the integrity of records and transactions. But just as blockchain can be used to verify Bitcoin transaction records, it can also ensure that medicines are delivered...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 16, 2020 | Innovation
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital worldwide have an urgent need for doctors and nurses. Huge numbers of retired doctors and nurses have been called up – 20,000 in the UK’s NHS alone. Medical and nursing students are also being called up to the front...
by Dianne Bayley | May 4, 2020 | Innovation
South Africa is a unique country, and in many ways because of our uniqueness we need novel solutions, writes Thoneshan Naidoo, Principal Officer of Medshield Medical Scheme. On the one hand we face a quadruple disease burden of HIV/AIDs and TB; high maternal and child...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 7, 2020 | Sustainability
A key part of making healthcare affordable and accessible to all members of society is gaining insight from patient data to better understand their needs as well as the efficacy of treatments and medication, writes Henry Adams, Country Manager of InterSystems....
