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Gauteng hails ICT in healthcare

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 24 May 2017
Gauteng premier David Makhura.
Gauteng premier David Makhura.

Gauteng's provincial government will continue modernisation of the health sector and has targeted to have all patient files digitised by 2019.

So says premier David Mukhura, who delivered the Gauteng mid-term report yesterday.

According to Mukhura, the provincial government has introduced a range of new initiatives to improve service delivery, and the introduction of ICT in the health sector is currently under way.

ICT systems have been deployed to various service delivery areas to improve efficiency, he adds.

"The Gauteng government has harnessed ICT in health (e-health), resulting in 60 hospitals having been supported with scanned medical records and 20 supported in the migration to the Medicom Computerised Patient Information System."

As part of the modernisation efforts, the provincial government introduced an electronic bed management system last year. The system eliminates the process of patients waiting for hours for a hospital bed, or dying while ambulances drive from hospital to hospital trying to locate an empty bed.

In 2015, the Gauteng government introduced an electronic invoicing service, which trims the amount of time it takes suppliers to get invoices to the correct provincial government department from 60 days to less than two days, states Makhura.

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