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Over 1 Million South Africans Use National Department’s COVID-19 HealthCheck Tool
South Africa’s National Department of Health (NDoH) has confirmed that over 1 million South Africans have already used their COVID-19 digital self-assessment tool called HealthCheck. The HealthCheck self-assessment tool allows for early detection, mapping and management of COVID-19 cases using…
1Life, Samsung and LifeQ Launch “Life Insurance Ecosystem”
1Life, Samsung South Africa and LifeQ have partnered to launch life insurance ecosystem, 1Life Pulse. This initiative is backed by wearables and app technology and enables consumers to grow their life insurance cover by “making better choices”. 1Life Pulse acts as…
SA Startup Making Waves with New COVID-19 Tracing Tech
A South African startup has launched a cheap approach to contact tracing in efforts to help with coronavirus measures. Contact tracing is a method of tracking used in countries like the United Kingdom, Singapore and South Korea to aid in…
Private Hospitals in South Africa Fall Victim to Cyberattack
Life Healthcare in South Africa announced that its IT systems have been compromised by cybercriminals. In an official statement, the private healthcare group says that it regrets to announce that its Southern African operation has been the victim of a…
AgriTech Company in Ghana Sends Vital COVID-19 Info to Locals Via Voice Message
Ghanaian agritech company, Farmerline has sent WHO COVID-19 information to over 18,000 smallholder farmers across 32 districts in Ghana in the wake of the pandemic. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) COVID-19 messages – which were originally available in the English…
How to Fight COVID-19 in Africa’s Informal Settlements
The COVID-19 pandemic has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the world’s richest cities but poses an even greater threat to cities in the developing world. There are now more than 150,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across Africa, in…
African Union Forms Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing on the Continent
The Commissioner for Social Affairs, Amira Elfadil Mohammed, today rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing (PACT) at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In his message to participants in the rollout event, the Chairperson of…
Telenor, Sony and Ericsson Join Forces to Develop Smart IoT Healthcare Devices
Ericsson, Sony and Telenor have announced that they are teaming up to make it easy to connect people and things with intelligent tracking and monitoring solutions. Ranging from cargo to IoT healthcare devices for patients, tracking increases mobility and improves…
E-Health Framework in Development for South Africa
South Africa’s healthcare organisations are currently on a journey to providing comprehensive and accessible healthcare services to all its citizens, in both the private and public healthcare ecosystems. However, the finalisation of legislation and standards that govern this sector has…
Hydroxychloroquine Trials for COVID-19 Suspended by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it is pausing clinical trials on the use of the controversial malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, to treat patients with COVID-19. This was one of four experimental treatments being investigated by the organization and has…
New IoT System Could Detect Future Virus Outbreaks
IoT sensors that monitor body temperature in real-time and are implemented at a large scale could provide geolocation data that would allow potential quarantine areas to be rapidly identified. Through this, the idea is to shut down emerging viruses before…
Facebook and SANBS Partner to Increase Blood Donations in South Africa
Facebook, the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS) are working together to encourage people to donate blood. Starting on Monday, 18 May 2020, South Africans who are over 18 years old will have…
HIV-Fighting Strategy Could Help Against COVID-19
While vaccines for the world-stopping coronavirus could be months, or even years away – there are some researchers who are looking to see if they can stop people who are at high risk of getting sick in the first place.…
Workplace Health Surveillance Tool Launched in South Africa
As more South Africans return to work in May, workplaces are re-designing to combat COVID-19 infection, while simultaneously reassuring workers are the new priority. Fortunately, South African innovation is rising to the challenge of reimagining shared workspaces in the COVID-19…
Groundbreaking AI Scans Lungs for COVID-19 Presence
In Wuhan, China, when the rate of coronavirus infection was at its highest, doctors were able to use an AI algorithm to scan the lungs of thousands of patients. The algorithm in question, developed by Axial AI, analyses CT imagery…
Interoperability within Healthcare is Needed Now More than Ever
Many of South Africa’s healthcare facilities still run legacy systems that operate in silos, which means data needs to go through a streamlining process first. As this information is raw data, it might not correspond with other system architectures, meaning…
