The solution to public health care in South Africa can be coded in C#

A friend of mine was telling me about their experience at a public clinic recently. He was there for two hours. Part of the delay was that it took a while to find his file. He'd been there the week before and was documented. Before he could see any of the nurses his file had to be retrieved from the archives so that the nurses could use it as a reference for any treatment they might prescribe. Makes sense. But why does it have to be a record on paper which takes time to retrieve and uses up space? Setting up a database isn't mission impossible. Heck, A junior developer can cut their teeth cobbling together a patient management application. At the click of a button records could be retrieved. The efficiency gains of a computer-based records system are stupidly obvious. But as a scientist I also see greater potential in having all that data readily available. The kind of analysis which could be done is the stuff PhD dissertations are made from. A few select SQL queries (pun intended) and you have nuanced disease demographics. With such data, recurring illnesses could be forestalled. John Snow (not the game of thrones character) figured out how cholera was spread by asking "who, when, and where" during the London epidemic of 1854. Imagine what we could figure out today armed with the data from all the clinics and hospitals in the country.