The Enterprise Mobility Solutions division of Motorola has announced its newest advanced data capture solution for healthcare – the DS6878-HC cordless 2D imager.

The Provincial Government, Department of Health - Forensic Pathology Services (FPS) has implemented an Open Text Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system with IT systems, software, hardware and consulting services provider, Datacentrix, in order to support key document management processes with a specific focus on overtime processes.

Philips Medical, Synchramed and Healthbridge are three of the latest companies which registered as exhibitors for the upcoming Health Technology Africa exhibition.

Five of London’s leading Consultant Anaesthetists were participating in a first-of-its-kind telemedicine lecture series on Thursday (1 October) for Iraqi health care professionals.

Contract marketing and sales specialists for the pharmaceutical industry, Favo Health, has boosted its sales staff’s productivity and profitability by issuing them with hand-held technology from Tracer CQM that allows the daily monitoring of strategic territory management and sales information.

Momentum Multiply has chosen DVT to develop and build an application that maps and monitors clients’ physical activity levels as a means of tracking healthy lifestyle improvement.

In many countries, the health sector is the largest employer, consuming up to 10 percent of gross domestic product, writes Dr Peter Drury, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group: Emerging Markets

There are numerous challenges facing the health industry in South Africa at this time. Patients have little or no access to their own medical data.
Patient health records are currently maintained individually by each physician that treats a patient, by every hospital or clinic that serves a patient and by any medical aid institution that covers the patient’s medical service.

The pharmaceutical industry will lose patient trust within 10 years unless it learns to adapt to changes in the way healthcare will be created, delivered and managed. That is just one of the many predictions from a new investigation of the healthcare market undertaken by BT.

Deep in rural South Africa, there’s a small clinic that’s way ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to sustainable healthcare and - importantly - HIV/AIDS statistics. 

Along with a need to fast-track sophisticated education, healthcare is arguably one of the most important and urgent challenges currently facing South Africa.