In Limpopo, one of the most beautiful parts of South Africa, lies the Rethabile Clinic. This clinic is one of many servicing a vast rural community where patients will often travel for days to wait for hours to receive essential care. It’s also the location of a pilot project between the Limpopo Department of Health and Mint Group, a project that put artificial intelligence into systems that would transform healthcare and access to medications.

“One of the biggest challenges faced by the clinic is its use of a vast, paperbased filing system,” says Peter Reid, head of AI, Mint Group. “The patient brings in their file number, which is then used to locate their file in a huge storage space. Not only does this take time, but often patients lose the piece of paper that has their file number on it.”