The Vital Insight Podcast

South Africa already invented the healthcare model the rest of the world now uses to fix community health access.
Then it got shut down and the world kept building on it without us. In this episode, Basil Adriaanse speaks with Dr. Dale Smith, CEO of the Impilo Project (co-founded with Rachel Kolisi), about why South Africa's primary healthcare access crisis isn't a passion problem, it's a systems problem.

We sit down and discuss the inner workings of Michell's Plain CHC with Dr Roland Kroukamp. This insightful episode gives us a glipse into the challenges and victories of the public healthcare sector in South Africa and allows us to start to solve the problem of healthcare accessibility.

Curious about value-based care and if it can fix South African healthcare? In this intriguing discussion with Nomfundo Khabela, who is a bioethicist and healthcare policy expert of Healthbridge, we unpack these issue and more including:
What is value based care?
What problems do value based care solve?
How do we measure its impact?
How do EHR's give value to its impact?
All this and so much more in this episode of The Vital Insight Podcast.

We sit down with the founder of Medrisk, Jamal Ismail who reveals to us what happens in most medical practices regarding record keeping and how many practices are not well protected against cyber crime and privacy violations. Learn more about how your practice can protect itself against a malpractice claims and thrive.

We sit down with the president of the South African Society of Physiotherapy, Natalie Benjamin - Damons and explore how AI and universal healthcare will impact medicine in this thought-provoking video. We also touch on:
- Ai in healthcare
- Universal healthcare
- How medical school is adapting to accomodate Ai.
- How clinical reasoning is impacted
- Value based healthcare
- Creating a value proposition for funders of healthcare. 

We sit down with Tasneem Abrahams, an occupational therapist and founder of the Private Practice Growth Club to discuss some of the challenges private practice owners face and the many hat they have to wear.
We go through the common blindspots private practice owners often suffer from when trying to balance being both a business owner and a medical practitioner. We also touch on a few other topics from the state of healthcare in 2025 as well as burnout many clinician face.

In our inaugural episode of The Vital Insight Podcast we speak to Dr Lethabo Machaba, accomplished paediatrician, healthcare entrepreneur and founder on what it means to be a leader in the healthcare sector.
We discuss the state of healthcare, what it means practically to lead and how you can occupy your space and leave your mark on South African healthcare.