LET’S GET DIGITAL

Discovery’s tools are one example in a broader trend toward digitization that has only accelerated in the past 18 months—others include AstraZeneca’s New Normal Same Cancer Campaign, or the eSihle program offering prostate cancer patients home-based care and support, both facilitated by a low-touch patient journey that would have been impossible without digital tools.

Nel says, “We have partnered with Brand-Med, a leading South African connected healthcare company, to sponsor fifteen BrandMed Syntro-P Health Centres of Excellence, offering patients access to a more proactive, patient-centric, integrated risk-reduction and treatment approach to chronic conditions.”

hopes that the country can look beyond with its digitalization efforts, keeping the” Field sees the implementation of such management in South Africa to accelerate diagnoses, allocate beds, and coordinate referral systems, allowing for new protocols to replace outdated ones. “With all this in place, we could improve the management of care tremendously,” Field says. “The best doctors, the best medicines, and the best systems are of no use if they don’t go hand in hand with good management of care.”