Over 100 Residents Receive AI-Powered TB Screening at Cape Town Health Day
On Saturday, 16 May, The Impilo Project, a South African NGO delivering healthcare to underserved communities, facilitated a health screening day at Marconi Beam Primary School in Joe Slovo,...
Healthcare systems and interoperability
Healthcare systems don’t typically fail where data is created, they fail where it needs to move. The biggest breakdowns happen between hospital systems, EHR platforms, labs, radiology, billing and...
The next chapter for South African healthcare: Digitisation, hyper‑personalisation, and a new generation of leaders
South Africa’s health system is changing rapidly. Clinical demand is rising, people’s expectations are shifting, and technology is now mature enough to remove distance, time, and cost from many...
Delivering complexity with purpose: lessons from South Africa’s healthcare front lines
South Africa’s healthcare system is often described in terms of its constraints - limited resources, structural inequality and rising demand. Yet for those working within it, it is defined...
Healthcare under attack: why cybersecurity is now critical care
Africa’s healthcare sector is facing a silent emergency. Many healthcare operators, facilities and doctors across Africa already grapple with the challenges of under-resourced environments, an uneven distribution of resources...
When AI serves the underserved by bridging access gaps and linkage to health services
If one assumes that artificial intelligence (AI) is for the ‘haves’ and not ‘have-nots,' then let us dive deeper into how AI is helping reach the unreached populations with...
Can AI help make prescriptions safer in South Africa’s busy clinics?
Across South Africa, nurses and doctors in public clinics make hundreds of important decisions every day, often under enormous pressure. They’re short on time, juggling long queues, and sometimes...
The rise of borderless clinicians: Implications for South African health services
Healthcare systems across the world face unprecedented workforce shortages, with the World Health Organisation projecting a shortfall of 11 million healthcare workers by 2030. As developed and developing nations alike...
Deepfake doctors and bogus practitioners: Immploy warns of new threat to patient safety this National Doctors Day
This National Doctors’ Day, commemorated on Sunday, South Africans are not only thanking doctors. They are also learning that some of the faces they see online are not doctors at...
InterSystems and Google Cloud Integrate InterSystems HealthShare with Google Cloud’s Healthcare API
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider managing over one billion health records worldwide, today announced a new partnership that integrates InterSystems HealthShare with Google Cloud. This collaboration aims to deliver...
