25 January 2014
SABC
A combination of doctors, health care workers and patients have gathered at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town for the country's first ever "health hackathon".
Participants are working on innovative technological designs that could be used to improve the health care system in South Africa.
Hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT), the teams are working on inventing practical solutions to deal with challenges in the health care system.
"The first thing is to expose participants to some of the real needs that we have in the South African health care and that's why we are having it at Groote Schuur hospital.
