Canberra-based company Aspen Medical will launch a commercial flying doctor service in West Africa next month as it plans for a future beyond Ebola treatment.
The company, which was the only organisation to be contracted by three separate governments to treat the epidemic, is hopeful it will support rebuilding communities.
Its plane is expected to arrive in Sierra Leone’s capital Monrovia in coming weeks and the evacuation service will be available to calls from Liberia, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.
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The AfroCentric Health Group (AfroCentric) and global analytics software firm FICO today announced a strategic partnership that establishes the South African healthcare industry’s leading fraud management solution. AfroCentric’s healthcare IT services subsidiary, Helios IT Solutions (Helios ITS), and FICO now offer this fraud management and payment integrity platform to all medical schemes in South Africa.
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The biggest tech trend in Africa, and the one that is making the biggest impact on the everyday lives of people is the rise of smartphones and feature phones.
Africa has seen the fastest uptake of mobile devices in the world and mobile subscribers are set to hit half a billion in the next five years, according to the GSMA.
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Ghana is planning to recruit 177 doctors from Cuba to work at state-run hospitals hit by a doctors’ strike, Health Minister Alex Segbefia has said.
The government would also retain Cuban physicians currently in the country whose contracts had expired, he added.
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Health Systems Technologies (Pty) Ltd (HST), a subsidiary of African Equity Empowerment Investments Limited (AEEI), has secured a contract with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to implement Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
HST, a leading provider of integrated healthcare solutions in South Africa, will roll out its LIMS services to multiple laboratories in Tanzania with a view to rolling out further opportunities throughout Tanzania.
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Born into an increasingly digital world, more young people than ever before are using mobile technologies to connect, communicate and share information. The pace of technological innovation has enabled an expansion in the reach of mobile networks, improving connectivity and access to information for millions of young people around the world.
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Cipla has announced that it is currently developing an innovative inhaler, which will bring important benefits for South African patients and physicians, as the inhaler holds three key benefits for the treatment of Obstructive Airway Diseases (OAD).
This novel, breath-actuated inhaler (BAI), called Synchrobreathe is expected to reach the local market in fourth quarter 2015, and will be launched first in South Africa.
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The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) has partnered with an international mobile-health provider to offer its more than 11 million M-Shwari customers medical consultation services on their phones.
Under the partnership the m-Health service provider Hello Doctor, a subsidiary of Metropolitan Health, will act as an assistant to local general practitioners when consumers want a quick healthcare reference.
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With medical aid schemes in SA holding surplus reserve funds of up to R27bn, Alexander Forbes has questioned the way medical scheme reserving is calculated.
With medical aid schemes in South Africa holding surplus reserve funds of between R12-billion and R27-billion, Alexander Forbes Health has questioned the way medical scheme reserving is calculated. Alexander Forbes Head of Technical and Actuarial Consulting Solutions, Roshan Bhana, discusses a new possible formula for schemes developed by the Industry Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP) of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), as well as an Alexander Forbes Health measure to work out what reserves are required.
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Ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, GE (NYSE: GE) (http://www.ge.com) announced a series of new commitments aimed at addressing some of the most critical health challenges in East Africa through a sustained focus on skills development and capacity building. Among the investments, GE announced:
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