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A young entrepreneur who is working to revolutionise the South African healthcare system!

Elliot Sack is the founder and director of South Africa’s widely known healthcare service provider, eHealthGroup. He is a successful business executive and highly experienced entrepreneur. Throughout his career, he has exposed himself to various industries including finance, healthcare and technology. He is a very ambitious and talented entrepreneur and keeps a vision to bring improvements in the field of innovation and technology.

The eHealthGroup founded by Elliot Sack is one of the leading medical technology and healthcare services providers in South Africa. Elliot Sack long-term goal and vision is to develop a Pan-African telehealth network. This network would enable outreach and healthcare delivery to rural and remote areas and rapidly improve health across the continuum from primary to acute care to the greater African population.

The 4th industrial revolution is bringing along new digital health technologies, AI, Big data connectivity and rapid advances in diagnostics  in the medical industry has led to more opportunities than ever before. Therefore, companies of all sectors must adopt the digitisation path with a digital strategy that should be defined very clearly with a primary focus on digital skills enhancement. This digitalisation paved the path for Elliot Sack, to bring digital transformation in the field of healthcare for Africa and the result was eHealthGroup. More than one-third of African population invested in telehealth, as eHealthGroup  is exploring ways to enhanced the telehealth service in Africa as the majority of the population on the continent does not have access to adequate healthcare!

Elliot Sack from eHealthGroup has telemedicine technology that will enable healthcare professionals to consult and deliver care to patients remotely. Elliot Sacks disruptive and innovative initiatives  benefits all stakeholders in the healthcare value chain including:

Easy access to a varied range of patient's clinical data.

Open, accurate and lucid images of patients.

A best and comprehensive network of telecommunication like a doctor can have two screens. In one screen he can access a patient and on the other screen PACS. This way he can make effectual utilization of his time and patients will also get direct help.

Thus, we see how Elliot Sack, with his immense talent and innovative capacity, has helped people all over the world. Other than South Africa, the healthcare services of Intouch Health, eHealthGroup’s exclusive partner, have become part of a global network providing premium quality telehealth.

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A renowned digital health entrepreneur in South Africa!

Elliot Sack is and pioneer and renowned entrepreneur looking to disrupt and improve healthcare in South Africa. He is the founder and director of eHealthGroup. In his career, Elliot Sack has excelled in several sectors, mostly in the fields of technology, finance and healthcare.

He is an impact entrepreneur constantly innovating and exploring ways to improve healthcare in various ventures. Elliot Sack was born in South Africa but moved to America with his family at an early age. He moved back to South Africa in 2012 and he always had a mind-set to be an entrepreneur.  Upon his return to South Africa, he noticed staggering deficit of medical specialists and healthcare professionals. After doing careful market research and business analysis of the South African healthcare system, he saw the vast disproportion of resources in the private and public sectors. This opened the gate of opportunities for him to try his entrepreneurial skills and explore ways to solve a very prevalent problem in the healthcare sector.

Health information systems and telemedicine have been identified as a possible solution that can be used to alleviate the disparity between rural and urban health care services (Fichman, Kohli & Krishnan 2011; Kolodner, Cohn & Friedman 2008). Since the late 90s, the South African National Department of Health had coordinated the introduction of Telemedicine into the delivery of health services in South Africa with varying success.

With the proposed reform of the current health care system, the National Department of Health has embarked on a process to improve health care delivery by reforming the cost of health care delivery making it more affordable and by providing quality health care services that are accessible to the population.

Numerous challenges however had been identified that influences the provision of such quality health care; these include

ever increasing burden of disease, for example non- communicable disease, lack of specialist and medical expertise at primary and secondary levels of care, increasing health care expenditures, inappropriate referrals to tertiary level hospitals leading to unnecessary admissions, overcrowding and unsustainable burden on doctors and nurses soaring patient transportation costs, and soaring medico legal costs.

eHealthGroup is working to create a multispecialty network of health care practitioners providing immediate access to quality specialist services and medical training to ALL levels of healthcare through a global leading telemedicine solution technology. eHealthGroup’s global leading telehealth solutions function through a cloud based global server infrastructure which guarantees an internet connectivity uptime of 99.5% uptime and 24/7 client support. eHealthGroup provides the world’s only class II(a) certified and FDA cleared, HIPPA and POPI compliant and registered medical devices with the Medicine Control Counsel. These telehealth solutions range from state of the art robotics to various telehealth devices depending on the acuity of the patient and clinical service desired for delivery of various clinical specialist services and medical training.   Currently, the eHealthGroup is still in the early stages of implementations and pilots with various hospital groups, pharmacy chains and Provincial and National Departments of Health. Elliot Sack is optimistic that these pilot sites will be successful and provide insight into ways we can rapidly improving healthcare delivery, implement NHI and medical training in South Africa.

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Elliot Sack and his journey of founding eHealthGroup improve healthcare in Africa.

South Africa is a country known for its underdevelopment, poor public resources and lack of proper skills. This opens a ton of opportunities for an entrepreneur to make their invention in order to solve the country problems by utilizing technology in various ways.

Elliot Sack was one such entrepreneur, who was born in South Africa but immigrated to America with his Family. He studied business at the University of Central Florida and has exposed himself to several sectors like technology, finance, most primarily healthcare. Elliot always wanted to follow in the entrepreneurial footsteps of his  late grandfather, Gerald Sack. Gerald Sack was a renowned Johannesburg businessman and textile entrepreneur. When Elliot Sack came back to his visit South Africa in 2012, he noticed the health system is very underdeveloped and was in a state of crisis due to lack of medical resources. Elliot Sack saw a great opportunity in it where he can use modern technology to solve these issues. He saw that although telemedicine was being uses in certain parts of South Africa, it was reaching the rural areas and health systems in most dire need.

Elliot Sack followed through with his idea to disrupt and improve healthcare in South Africa through telemedicine. Hence, he founded the eHealthGroup, which is now one of the premier telemedicine and infection control solutions providers in South Africa. Elliot Sack was fundamental in forming the partnertship with global leaders in telehealth technology, InTouch Health based in Santa Barbara California. InTouch Health has developed and integrated medical devices with top of the line audio-visual communication technology to enable a global virtual care platform. InTouch Health’s technology enables remote specialists to virtually care for patients, on demand no matter the location.

Elliot Sack is a great business executive who secured the distribution rights for InTouch technologies in South Africa. Elliot Sack has been collaborating with both private and public sector to deploy and implement telemedicine services to hospitals in Southern Africa. He is very ambitious and keeps a fast thinking vision of modernization and technology.

Elliot Sack keeps an aim to include communication modules for all teams of healthcare emergency teams who can easily bring the medical specialist to the accident site and several tab-based apps that will help home care workers to gain instant access to instant and top grade medical guidance. Elliot Sack is making great advancements in the current pilots eHealthGroup is running in the Western Cape. This ground-breaking pilot with Western Cape Department of Health, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital will bring great benefits to the entire healthcare industry of South Africa. People will gain easy access to all healthcare service they require at any time, through global leading telemedicine technology and specialists in the tertiary hospitals.