Promoted | The identity revolution in healthcare in South Africa, by BCXworld's Nkosi Kumalo
medical care continue to amaze, the swift development of Covid-19 vaccines being the latest example. But as medical treatments become more effective, they also become more complex, making them harder to manage at scale.
Consider a patient entering the system at casualty, and then progressing to a ward, doctor consultations, and finally admission and perhaps surgery. At each point a new file is opened because each entity maintains its own records; the same applies for the medical aid, if there is one. New files proliferate along the way. The information is fragmented and obtaining a single view of the patient is virtually impossible.
Once this kind of verification is in place, it becomes possible to start seeing and treating the patient holistically. A reliable and credible patient identification system would enable significant improvements in how patients move between service providers and the quality of care they receive, even if the ideal of a universal integrated health information system remains elusive.Technology holds the key to solving these challenges.
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