#BizTrends2024: Prevention, digital access, and patient-centred care

[Aimée Wesso-Roberts] In 2024, South Africa's healthcare blends tech and challenges...

#BizTrends2024: The only constant is change - healthcare technology trends

[Avsharn Bachoo] In 2024, Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" vision manifests as technology looks set to change daily...

#BizTrends2024: Revolutionising mental performance with human-centric algorithms

[Steve Stavs] In our current health landscape, cognitive decline is rising, especially among younger individuals. Mental-health distress affects work performance, revealing a failing system. Enter Medicine 3.0...

#BizTrends2023: Meeting your surgeon in the metaverse; can 2023 drive the metamorphosis of healthcare technology?

[Avsharn Bachoo] As post-Covid-19 reality gets caught up with political, economic and social volatility, optimistic technology innovations cast a future vision, pens Afrocentric's technology director...

#BizTrends2023: The rise of operational technology in the healthcare arena

[Brian Smith] While uptake of digital transformation may have been a little slower within the healthcare sector, the outlook for the future of African healthtech is promising, says Datacentrix consultant, Brian Smith...

#BizTrends2023: Navigating data overload in South Africa's healthcare sector

[Willem Botes] With rapid advances in technology ensuring change in the market is swift, SA businesses must keep up, or face being left behind, cautions Iron Mountain's Willem Botes...

#BizTrends2023: Climate change will affect healthcare and provision of services

[Pamela Hellig] Researchers say climate change should serve as a catalyst for improving the healthcare system overall. Healthcare providers will have their work cut out for them, heeds Pamela Hellig of Insight Life Solutions...

Smart hospitals gear up to deploy over 7 million IoMT devices globally by 2026

[Adam Wears] A new study by Juniper Research has found that smart hospitals will deploy 7.4 million connected IoMT devices globally by 2026; over 3,850 devices per smart hospital.

#BizTrends2022: Hospital teams to deliver remote, at-home, vital-sign monitoring

[Dr Vuyane Mhlomi] Medtech is advancing to such a degree that hospital-care will now entail patients getting remote, round-the-clock, vital-sign monitoring in the comfort of their own homes...

#BizTrends2022: The state of global mental healthcare at a crisis point

[Katja Hamilton] The mental-health impact of the virus is now the second pandemic to come out of Covid-19...

#BizTrends2022: Introducing age reversal as South Africa's new therapeutic frontier

[Katja Hamilton] #BizTrend2022: Biological age reversal in humans has come under scrutiny in the last few years, but 2022 promises breakthroughs in South Africa, particularly in the field of rewriting the skin's DNA...

#BizTrends2022: Pharma - innovating in medicine and boosting the economy

[Bada Pharasi] Bada Pharasi, CEO of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association South Africa (IPASA), drills down to the fundamentals of how the organisation and its member companies benefit South Africa in meaningful ways...

#BizTrends2020: Where tech will take healthcare

[Nicci Botha] The outdated lone-doctor model where illnesses are treated in siloes has to change. Care has to be outcomes based, it has to be measurable and it has to be tech enabled...

#BizTrends2018: Plastic surgery and the power of social media

[Frank Graewe] If we talk about trends in plastic surgery we have to talk about social media...

#BizTrends2017: Six game-changers in the modern world of medicine

[Surike Viviers] It's quite fascinating to consider just how much medical technology has changed in the past two decades or so...

#BizTrends2017: Sustainability requires innovation

[Danette Breitenbach] In the next decade the South African healthcare industry will look very different...