Table of Contents
- Abbreviations used in this report
- Research references
SA Healthcare Sector Economic Overview
- The healthcare industry has a multi-faceted structure, comprised of 5 major sectors
- Healthcare GDP: total contribution to GDP
- Healthcare GDP: private versus public
- Number of healthcare facilities in SA
- Percentage distribution of the type of healthcare facility consulted first by households, 2004-2017
- SA Healthcare expenditure
Healthcare Trends and Challenges
- Trend – Global healthcare trends
- Trend – Global alternative reimbursement models or value-based healthcare
- Trend – Global spiralling healthcare costs
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – performance against policies
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – service delivery at hospitals
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – burden of disease
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – personnel costs
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – cybersecurity and regulations
- Challenge – disconnect between levels of government managing public health spend
- Challenges for the healthcare sector – high attainment policy goals
- Challenges in SA healthcare sector growth
Government Healthcare Initiatives
- Focus on primary healthcare (PHC)
- Expenditure on primary health care – PHC
- Government initiative – Operation Phakisa
- The Ideal Clinic programme for primary healthcare
National Health Insurance
- NHI Overview
- Government key priority for health – universal health coverage & the NHI
- Funding of the NHI
- Initiative – Health Patient Registration System (HPRS)
- NHI Implementation costs
- NHI Implementation costs
- NHI information systems
- NHI Health Technology Assessment
- NHI – ICT programmes
SA National and Provincial Government Healthcare ICT Spend
- SA ICT healthcare policies and their implementing agencies
- SA eHealth Strategy
- Trend – Health technology assessment (HTA)
- Health Normative Standards Framework (HNSF) for Interoperability in eHealth
- SA Connect underpins many of the healthcare policies and initiatives
- National department of Health’s ICT spend
- DoH 2018 ICT Performance Indicators
- Provincial Government Health ICT spend
Global Technology Trends in Healthcare
- Technology-enabled healthcare (TEC) or connected health
- Technology in healthcare – challenges
- The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2018: this shows the success/failure potential of health technology
- Innovation in the healthcare ecosystem – co-created innovation and enabling regulation
- Participatory medicine
- ‘Patient power’ – technology enables a shift from ‘paternalistic’ practitioner
- Online patient communities, patient forums and online information-sharing
- Bio-sensing wearable devices
- Managing healthcare big data
- Facilitation between healthcare teams: telemedicine, electronic patient records
- Precision medicine
- Portable digital imaging
- Digital sensoring
- Wirelessly Observed Therapy (WOT)
- Biosensor technology, enabling point-of-care testing, could limit HIV spread
- Blockchain in healthcare
- AI offers access and solutions for mental health difficulties
- Convenient care: technology reducing time constraints and saving lives
- Human augmentation technology
- 3D-printed devices
- Home care
- The future of consumer digital health
Local Technology Trends in Healthcare in SA
- Initiative: Digital tools on the Discovery app on the smartphone
- Initiative: Discovery Health Administrators – ICT
- Initiative: Discovery Health AI and Machine Learning
- Initiative: Momentum Health Hello Doctor
- Initiative: Netcare ICT
- Initiative: Disinfection robots deployed in Netcare hospitals
- Initiative: Mediclinic ICT
- Initiative: Life Healthcare ICT
- Initiative: South Africa’s first interactive mobile medicines resource
- Initiative: TB Diagnostics – mobile x-ray identification & diagnostic trucks
- Initiative: Mobile on-demand health care services
- Initiative: National health Laboratory Services (NHLS) ICT
- Initiative: NHLS ICT
- Initiative: MomConnect and NurseConnect programmes
- Initiative: She Conquers digital media campaign
- Initiative: Public-private partnership launches Africa’s first ATM pharmacy
- Initiative: Western Cape government eHealth
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- BMIT Knowledge Areas
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