Bytes Healthcare Solutions, Midrand

South Africa’s huge number of medical aid schemes and the complexities of their different systems, coupled with the sheer number of claims processed, place a heavy burden on the already stressed healthcare industry's administrative capacity. Through utilising the solutions and services provided by Bytes Healthcare Solutions’ subsidiaries, Med-e-Mass and Switch, healthcare professionals, service providers and medical scheme administrators are able to dedicate more time to the delivery of healthcare and spend less time on administration. These professionals and institutions are assured of improved cash flows and better efficiencies through Bytes Healthcare Solutions’ business management software and claims submission solutions.

The South African government has initiated several regulatory and structural reforms to broaden the reach and improve the quality of healthcare delivery. Bytes Healthcare Solutions plays a significant role to assist these efforts, with solutions that have a proven record of success.
Bytes Healthcare Solutions, previously known as Digital Healthcare Solutions (DHS), was formed in May 2001 as a merger between the QEDI business of Business Connexion (then Comparex Africa) and Mediswitch, a subsidiary of Bytes.

In April 2005, Bytes Technology Group Ltd (Bytes) obtained permission from the competition authorities to acquire the Business Connexion and Netcare shareholdings in DHS. Subsequently it also bought the minority shareholding of United South African Pharmacies, thus making DHS a wholly owned Bytes subsidiary. As a final step Bytes sold its DHS shareholding to its South African subsidiary, a vehicle which is 27% owned by Kagiso Strategic Investments.

In 2007, the Board of Directors of Digital Healthcare Solutions approved a resolution for the name of the company to change to Bytes Healthcare Solutions and this change took effect from 1 March 2008.