By Charmaine Ndlela
South Africa has taken a major step in tackling one of the country’s leading causes of death by launching its first National Diabetes Dashboard, designed to give healthcare workers near-real-time data on patient management.
The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), in collaboration with the Gauteng Department of Health, National Priority Programmes and the Wits Diagnostic Innovation Hub, developed the National Diabetes HbA1c Dashboard to strengthen the country’s response to diabetes.
The NHLS said this week that the dashboard marked a significant breakthrough in tackling diabetes, which Stats SA has identified as the country’s leading underlying natural cause of death in 2023.
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The platform integrates expertise from the NHLS Corporate Data Warehouse, National Priority Programmes and the Department of Chemical Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
NHLS CEO Professor Koleka Mlisana said the system uses laboratory data
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