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Discovery Health partners with HealthTap to provide significant new services to Discovery Health clients in South Africa

21 September 2017 | Medical Schemes

Dr Jonathan Broomberg, CEO of Discovery Health, announced the launch of DrConnect, the product of a partnership between Discovery Health and HealthTap, based in Palo Alto, California. DrConnect provides a world-leading platform connecting patients, doctors and medical scheme case managers using state-of-the-art technology and artificial intelligence. With DrConnect patients have seamless access to high-quality medical information, and the app-based platform facilitates personal interactions between patients and their doctors.

Bonitas announces annual increase and changes for 2018

20 September 2017 | Medical Schemes

Bonitas Medical Fund (Bonitas) announced its lowest increase in six years today. After a challenging year for the healthcare industry, the contribution increase for 2018 will be a weighted increase of 8.7%, with increases on the various options range from 7.9% to 9.9%.

Underfunded and understaffed

14 September 2017 | General

In South Africa private and public health systems exist side by side. The public system serves the vast majority of the population, but is underfunded and understaffed. The wealthiest of the population use the private system and are better served than the poor.

Private sector skills and resources cannot be lost to South Africa’s national healthcare project

01 September 2017 | General

Cosatu’s opposition to the plans of the National Department of Health to allow the private sector to have a role in the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) could fundamentally scupper the achievement of universal healthcare coverage in South Africa.

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