Image source: Getty/Gallo</span>Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won’t pay for home-based care. But an all women fintech startup is offering an affordable and compassionate healthcare alternatives to SA’s medical schemes.
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Butsi Tladi, MD of Alexander Forbes Health</span>Healthcare sector stakeholders have long advocated for a single regulator, believing that the current dual framework creates a regulatory arbitrage not conducive to offering the consumer maximum protection.
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[[www.123rf.com 123rf.com]]</span>The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is awaiting the president’s go-ahead to investigate allegations that Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPSCA) employees may have taken bribes in exchange for medical registrations and board exam passes.
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[[www.123rf.com 123rf.com]]</span>Almost half the South African population has access to the internet, including 8-million Twitter users and 16-million Facebook users. This digital revolution has unlocked enormous opportunities for the creation of online communities for large-scale engagement around often complex topics like the management of health conditions.
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[[www.123rf.com 123rf.com]]</span>The value of keeping proper written records of explanations, discussions and advice leading to the informed consent to avoid protracted legal proceedings for both doctors and patients was highlighted in the the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Beukes v Smith.
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Image source: Getty/Gallo</span>South Africa’s largest medical schemes – both open and restricted – are in good shape and have sufficient reserves to pay members’ claims, according to Alexander Forbes Health’s latest edition of Diagnosis, an annual publication that analyses key trends in the medical schemes industry from 2000 to 2017.
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Image source: Getty/Gallo</span>Pop symptoms of a headache into a search engine and it will come back with a myriad of diagnoses, varying from a sinus headache to a tumour. Dr Google has become the source of choice for self-diagnosis, a second opinion or to find out more about a diagnosed condition. While many healthcare practitioners caution very strongly against using the internet as a diagnostic tool, others say it does have its uses
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Image source: Getty/Gallo</span>The Gauteng Department of Health (GDOH), in partnership with medical aid schemes and their administrators, has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a public-private partnership.
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Damian McHugh, head of marketing, Momentum health services.</span>National Health Insurance (NHI) is critical to creating a quality functioning healthcare system for all South Africans and it is good to see that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget Speech covered areas such as increased funding for certain diseases and improved service delivery in the public sector.
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[[www.123rf.cm 123rf.com]]</span>Fraud, waste and abuse is costing the private healthcare system more than R22bn, and if you submit false claims, you could face more than just being terminated from your scheme, the Council for Medical Schemes warned at its summit on fraud this week.
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