Health

The contact details project aimed to test whether providing free WiFi, where you must log-on using the cell phone number you have with you, while waiting to be seen in a primary healthcare (PHC) facility [...]

Image source: Leapfrog to Value Leapfrog to Value and Percept | May 2024 On Mother’s Day 2024, Leapfrog to Value and Percept launched the Maternity Playbook, which is designed to unite three critical movements within [...]

Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, and Percept | February 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) programme was a telehealth pilot intervention to support people living with poorly controlled diabetes. The aim of [...]

Percept | January 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) project was a telehealth study initiated in Hanover Park in the Western Cape in 2021. Its goal was to understand if telemedicine could be used [...]

Percept | January 2024 The emergence of telehealth services in the South African healthcare sector was not without its share of challenges. Besides the expected obstacles of poor data integrity, limited infrastructure and varying levels [...]

Percept | January 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) project was a telehealth study initiated in Hanover Park in the Western Cape in 2021. Its goal was to understand if telemedicine could be used [...]

Dr Nafisa Khan and Tahmeed Omar | October 2023 In 2021, Percept and the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness launched a telehealth pilot intervention to support people living with poorly controlled diabetes. The [...]

Percept and Leapfrog to Value | June 2023 This report details the results of a survey of what 360 South African mothers valued across the entire maternal episode. The questionnaire focused on what mattered to [...]

Percept and Leapfrog to Value | June 2023 The maternity care pathway – including antenatal, birthing, postpartum and neonatal care – is a critical predictor for women, infant and child health. By implication, it also shapes [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This third brief explores examples of PROMs being used for different diseases, and periods of care. It further explores the different outcome measures introduced in the previous brief while placing [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This second brief of the series delivers a starting point to implement patient-reported measures. Design principles and considerations, as well as the challenges they may give rise to, are further [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This brief explores the purpose (the “why”) behind the measurement of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and describes the tools (the “what”) that are available. The intended audience, and the beneficiaries (the [...]