The National Department of Health (NDoH) met with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to discuss the implementation of biometric identity verification in the health system in South Africa.
Provision has been made for the development of the functionality in the existing Health Patient Registration System during the 2022/2023 financial year.
Once the development is completed, the solution will be deployed in a small group of facilities for testing. Lessons learned will be used to enhance the biometric identity verification before it is deployed to the remainder of the health facilities in the country.
For successful implementation, the NDoH is working on overcoming the following:
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