Netcare

moneyweb | May 17, 2016

Netcare Limited expects that extensive waiting lists for the UK’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS) are going to continue driving patients to BMI Healthcare, the country’s largest private hospital group in which Netcare holds the majority stake. “One in 20 people are awaiting treatment on the NHS, the highest level since 2008. Diagnostic ‘wait targets’ have not been met for three years,” BMI Healthcare CEO, Jill Watts told analysts on Monday....

bdlive | May 17, 2016

PRIVATE hospital group Netcare says it remains optimistic about the scope for providing services to state patients in SA, despite the hostility expressed by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at the Competition Commission’s health market inquiry. The minister criticised Netcare’s public-private partnership with the Lesotho government when he made his submission to the inquiry, saying these kinds of contracts had never benefited the governments concerned. Yet the government’s National Health Insura...

Businesslive | May 13, 2019

Private hospital operator Netcare said on Monday it had seen a healthy 5.6% growth in revenue for the six months to end-March, boosted by the inclusion of Akeso Clinics during the period.Operating conditions in SA’s healthcare sector remains challenging however, with Netcare saying on Monday it expects growth in its second half to be lower than its first, as acute patient day demand is expected to weaken....

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...