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Smart Applications International partners with Kenya Healthcare Federation
Smart Applications International, Africa’s leading high–tech technology solutions company has partnered with Kenya Healthcare Federation (KHF), the Health Sector Board of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) that works with various healthcare stakeholders to promote strategic Public–Private Partnerships towards achieving…
Save your money pay later platform, Symple, partners with El Nada Hospital
Sympl, the first ‘Save Your Money Pay Later’ service in Egypt, announces its partnership with Egypt’s leading maternity hospital, El Nada Hospital. The partnership offers patients interest-free deferred payment programmes via the Sympl checkout platform. The partnership will give patients of El Nada Hospital more payment choices and enhance their checkout experience, through enabling an improved cashflow management. With no registration required, and interest-free repayment…
South Africa: Software Company Announces Vaccine Verifier
Identification verification software leader, ATG Digital, has announced a new tool for employers and public establishments to verify visitors’ vaccine status at access control points. Vaccine mandates are hot on everyone’s lips this season, but before the first fourth-wave headline,…
IoT-Fueled Gricd to Deliver 4.2-Million Moderna Jabs with Nigeria’s NPHCDA
Gricd, a cold chain technology company that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable last-mile delivery of temperature-sensitive products, has teamed up with Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to deliver 4.2 million doses of the Moderna…
The Home-Grown Tech That Helped South Africa Indentify the Omicron Variant
A proudly South African online software platform developed by Hyrax Biosciences, a company that spun out of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), has played a critical role in SA’s early detection of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2…
Nigeria’s E-Health Africa Sees Appointment of New Executive Director
eHealth Africa, a non-profit organization that aims to build stronger health systems through the design and implementation of data-driven solutions, today announces that Juliet Odogwu is the incoming Executive Director of the organization. Juliet Odogwu is the current Director of…
How Tech Shielded Eswatini from the Worst of the Pandemic
IsraAID, one of the largest humanitarian organisations in Israel, has collaborated with Monday.com to support the Ministry of Health as they work to ensure that the whole population of the Kingdom of Eswatini is vaccinated against the virus. The aid…
Angola & Nigeria to Benefit from These New IoT-Enabled Healthcare Programmes
Telecom26 today announced that it has been appointed by its long-term customer, SystemOne, to provide connectivity to new healthcare clinics across Angola and Nigeria. The two companies are already working together in Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe where SystemOne has tested more…
Areas of Focus for Healthcare Organisations When Securing Digital Transformation
The healthcare industry has been forever changed by digital transformation. Innovation in the medical space has led to advances in new treatments as well as cost savings that do not negatively impact the quality of care. The added benefit: faster,…
What’s Next for Online Healthcare in Africa?
When it comes to technology and digital life, the pandemic has been the ultimate accelerant of increased online behaviour. When our movements were physically restricted, we turned to our devices to find digital solutions that enable us to continue with…
“Vooma Vouchers”: Over 60’s to Get Paid for Vaccinating in SA
South Africans over 60 will be paid to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday 1 November in certain vaccination locations around the country. While launching in a testing phase, the initiative may expand and more people may be eligible…
‘First of its Kind’ Medical Centre Opens in Uganda
GE Healthcare and medical group AFRIPHARMA has announced the opening of the Afri-Egypt Health Services Center, a first of its kind medical and diagnostic centre in Uganda. The Center is located in Jinja and is expected to serve over 60,000…
Nigeria Struggles to Gather Enough Vaccines for its Massive Population
Yesterday, Nigeria received another 3.6-million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the United States. The second major shipment of vaccines the country has imported in the last 2 months, having received 4-million Moderna jabs from the US in August.…
4 Things You Didn’t Know About SA’s Vaccine Rollout to Teens
South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla has announced that children and teens between 12 and 17 will now be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The announcement came during a media briefing Friday morning, where Phaahla confirmed that the decision…
5 Easy Steps to Get Your Digital Vaccine Certificate in SA
South Africa’s official digital vaccine certificate website went live last week, and while the site took off shakily, it is now fully operational. That means that fully vaccinated South Africans can now use the website to obtain their digital vaccine…
Conrad Steyn of Cisco on Healthtech Challenges in South Africa
South Africa is seeing a new emergence of healthcare technologies, an emergence that may see healthcare professionals and patients more connected than ever as the COVID-19 pandemic forces the creation of more methods to communicate remotely. As a developing country,…
