Government inability to harness high-tech radiology blurs NHI vision
Bateman, C.
South African Medical Journal 105(5): 339-340
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 26242681 Document Number: 682101
Almost runaway techno- logical advances have put radiology at the cutting edge of diagnostic and therapeutic healthcare, increasing its reach beyond the wildest dreams of its oldest living practitioners. Yet the government's inability to pragmatically leverage willing private sector information technology skills and capacity has left South Africa way short of what it could potentially offer most of its patients.