Co-founder and Director at Cape Town-based startups WhiteBison and eLabs, Mikhail Wertheim Aymes, is the latest young innovator to emerge who is using his love for industrial design and technology […]
Features
Postmortem: the Story of Why SA’s Doctors are Leaving Medicine
Author of Postmortem – The Doctor Who Walked Away, Maria Phalime, shares her story about why she walked away from her life-long dream of being a doctor. By the time […]
Nurse Shortage Affecting SA’s Health Sector
Professor of Nursing at the North-West University, Chairperson: Education Committee South African Nursing Council (SANC) and speaker at the 6th annual Health Exhibition & Congress 2016, Abel Pienaar, explains why […]
Improving Medical Education Through eLearning
Head of Acute Care Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) and Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Dr Juan Klopper, explains why open eLearning platforms […]
Preparing for PoPI
Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act compliance expert at Pétanque Consultancy, Tania May, highlights the top priorities for healthcare organisations to prepare for PoPI. The PoPI Act protects our constitutional […]
Veeam: Data Availability at the Heart of Health
Regional Director at Veeam, Gregg Petersen, talks about the importance of data availability in healthcare, especially with the growth of wearable tech and the Internet of Things (IoT). Data is not […]
Healthcare Innovation: Lessons from the Frontline
Innovation, in some form, is being tried and tested across the healthcare community from single sites to national roll outs in an effort to address the numerous barriers to realising […]
Generic Medicine Saving Private Healthcare Billions
CEO of local generics firm Pharma Dynamics, Paul Anley, explains why generics have and will continue to play a critical role in lowering health cost projections. The South African private […]
Medicines Management is Key to NHI Success
As South Africa makes strides towards universal health coverage, efficient management of medicines will be more crucial than ever because medicines, and their availability and affordability, are fundamental to the […]
Removing Healthcare Barriers with Telemedicine
Telemedicine has been connecting patients to healthcare for almost 30 years, but continuous barriers, such as resistance from clinicians, prohibitive costs and more recently, an inability to meet bandwidth requirements […]
Cipla: Pharma Industry Has a Key Role to Play
With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank cutting South Africa’s economic growth forecast for 2016 to 0.7% and 0.8% respectively, if economic objectives are not met the […]
What to Expect From the 2016 Healthcare Landscape
With 2016 already in full swing, there are a number of health trends and developments that have emerged which have the potential to change the South African healthcare landscape, from […]