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Coverage, announcements and milestones as we build South Africa's patient-owned health record, and count down to the September 2026 launch.
Latest coverage.
Why every South African deserves a health record that belongs to them
Founder Janice Naidoo on living with multiple autoimmune conditions and managing her family's care, and why a health record the patient owns lets any doctor see a person's whole story instead of scattered fragments.
ITWeb Founder viewIn Conversation With: Janice Naidoo, CEO of Medi Diary
Founder Janice Naidoo joins Leshav Dilraj on The Joy Ride on Megazone Bollywood to talk patient-owned health records, the pilot and the road to South Africa's launch.
Megazone Bollywood The Joy RideMedi Diary launches in September: Patient-owned health record built for SA's NHI era
Medi Diary will launch publicly in September 2026 following pilot programmes from mid-July. The platform gives South African patients ownership and portability of their records across providers: offline-first for load-shedding resilience, POPIA-compliant, and free for pensioners and unemployed users, with medical schemes and health networks paying for integration.
ITWeb Health techTransforming patient care with a unified health record
Founder Janice Naidoo on why digitising records alone hasn't fixed fragmented care in South Africa, and how consolidating a patient's history into one record they own changes the consultation itself.
ITWeb TechForumFounder update from Janice Naidoo
Behind-the-scenes progress on the pilot, the road to September, and what patient-owned records mean for South African healthcare, direct from our founder.
LinkedIn Founder postMedi Diary on ITWeb
Our company profile and full archive of press releases on ITWeb, South Africa's leading technology publication.
ITWeb Company officeFrom our founder
(Janice Naidoo)
— coming soon —
"A record which follows the patient makes care better under every one of those outcomes."
Janice Naidoo — Founder, Medi Diary · quoted in ITWeb, 7 July 2026
Media fact sheet.
The essentials, ready to quote. For interviews, images or comment, email press@medidiary.tech.
What it is
A patient-owned, POPIA-compliant health record that follows the patient to every GP, clinic, pharmacy and hospital in South Africa.
Founder
Janice Naidoo, founder and CEO of Medi Diary (Pty) Ltd.
Launch
Pilot programmes from mid-July 2026; public launch September 2026. The patient waiting list is open and free.
Offline-first
Built to keep working through load-shedding and patchy connectivity, a South African requirement, not an afterthought.
Access & pricing
Free for pensioners and unemployed users. Medical schemes and health networks pay for integration with chronic-care programmes.
Intellectual property
Protected under South African provisional patent no. 2025/10081.
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