CareConnect Health Information Exchange

“Solving the fragmentation and interoperability problem of healthcare data is a critical success factor for any healthcare ecosystem to function efficiently.  Together with the current founding partners, this is exactly the problem that CareConnect is well down the road of solving.  What is required now is for broader stakeholder support and participation in this initiative.  An efficient healthcare system characterized by defragmentation and interoperability of healthcare related data will have benefits for both the public and private healthcare sector and for the economy as a whole in South Africa.”

“The purpose of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) is to provide treating medical teams with relevant clinical information as quickly as possible to ensure that they provide the best quality care which will inevitably result in a reduction in costs through improved outcomes and the elimination of unnecessary costs. To this end, Mediclinic, Netcare, Life, Discovery, Medscheme and Momentum came together to form CareConnect, a not for profit HIE, that will we believe ultimately make a meaningful contribution to universal access to affordable healthcare in South Africa.”

“As a proud Founding Member of CareConnect HIE, Discovery believes that the HIE solution is an essential and unique means to ensure a single accurate record of every patient’s care across the entire private sector, ultimately driving enhanced safety and quality in patient care. Securely aggregating patient information from multiple sources across the industry is our collective commitment to empowered patient-centric excellence.”

“We’re revolutionising patient care in SA. It’s about effective care coordination and Improved patient outcomes across the continuum of care -  no matter where the patient was previously diagnosed or treated.”

“CareConnect has complemented our world class reception processes with an additional level of access to patient demographic data. Benefits include being able to search and find patient information for emergency cases, where the patient cannot report to reception, and has not been to one of our facilities before. We are excited to see what additional use-cases and benefits CareConnect will deliver.”

“The current Health information Exchange (CareConnect) has delivered on the commitment by the founding members to implement the foundation use cases and I look forward to see how many more additional use cases can be added. Drawing in more private as well as public sector players to complete a true interoperability platform for the complete health sector in SA.”