Botswana healthcare brand Kalafhi Medical Centre has contracted global healthcare technology company Ever Medical Technologies to roll out various software and take the healthcare brand a step closer to its objective to emerge as a smart hospital.

Kalafhi Medical Centre’s Co-Founder and Business Development Manage, Barolong Mouwane, said, “We are transforming the healthcare industry through smart hospitals.”

Mouwane added that the medical company will leverage technology to scale up and penetrate the market, and that e-health has the potential to reduce medical health costs by 35%.

The Centre is investing in telemedicine, an administration back-end and patient front-end app for administering appointments, tele-health and telemedicine.

Ever Medical Technologies has begun with the installation of administrative software at Kalafhi Medical Centre facilities and training is ongoing ahead of full rollout and before other software is added.

Scott Mills Gray, Ever Medical Technologies’ Global Business Development Officer, said Botswana is a strategic region for the company and its Africa ambitions. “(We) want to make Botswana the model showcase for medical data technology.”

Gray said Ever Medical Technologies’ also offers Health Information Exchange (HIE) - an electronic patient health records system secured and accessed through blockchain protocol, and the EHR Suite - a modular electronic health records suite covering department and intra department needs.

It also offers population health and artificial intelligence modelling, software that ensures that once data has been activated on the company’s platform, data science and AI modelling techniques can be used to discover health insights.

“Our audacious goal is to unlock and decentralise healthcare data for patients to maximise efficiency, reduce waste, and lower costs for hospitals, patients and payers,” said Gray. “

eanwhile the company is also expecting the Botswana market to adopt its Digital Health Wallet, a platform that stores a patient’s health data information in one place, secured by blockchain.