by MedClaimAssist | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
There are as many views on whether doctors charge too much for their services as there are patients that visit doctors. Medical aids in South Africa set their rates for services by doctors and pay that as a benefit to contribute towards the cost of healthcare, no...
by MedClaimAssist | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
Some years ago I travelled around South Africa and visited members of Medical Schemes who were weekly paid workers and members of a trade union. I came across a number of people who, as members of a Medical Scheme, had been hospitalised (or more commonly a family...
by MedClaimAssist | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
Moody’s rating agency, in their statement “Moody’s places South Africa’s Baa2 ratings on review for downgrade” carried on their website they cite, amongst numerous other factors that they will look at to determine whether to downgrade South Africa’s rating...
by MedClaimAssist | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
We seem to be entering the era of the quantified self. I have a wearable device that monitors how much and how well I sleep, and counts the number of steps I take every day. I’ve hooked this up to my Personal Health Record (PHR) at The Health Chain, and it pumps...
by MedClaimAssist | May 18, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
An interesting piece of research was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) – abstract here. Of interest is the fact that 13% of patients self reported that they have withheld information from a provider because...
by MedClaimAssist | May 18, 2020 | Healthcare News, Medical Schemes
A colleague recently said that the problem of non-adherence to prescribed medication will not be solved by getting individuals to take their medication, but will be solved by “big data”. “It is a big data solution” he said. I was so puzzled by...
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