Medical aids accepted. AI at every consultation. Labs straight back to the record. A patient app of their own. Designed by doctors, for every HPCSA-registered practitioner in South Africa.
And the software is free.
No card needed. Credits never expire.
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Professions served
Medical-aid accredited
Check the member and the benefit before the patient sits down. Submit the claim before they leave. See the rejection reason on the line, not in a letter three weeks later. Remittances post themselves to the right invoice. Accredited switching, built in, at no licence cost.
Two exceptions today: dentists and optometrists are not yet switched for medical-aid claims and run on iScript as cash practices, with the software still free. Dental therapists, oral hygienists and dispensing opticians claim as normal.
Who is behind this
Every invoice in the comparison further down is one we paid. That is where the specification came from. Sign up in five minutes with your HPCSA number, no card, and you are consulting. Or hand it to us and we move your whole practice in 48 hours.
5 minutes
to sign up
48 hours
to switch
28
profession-specific consultation templates
The founder
Founder and Chief Executive. Trained medical doctor, medical informatics, entrepreneur. Runs his own HPCSA-registered practice group on iScript.
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director
MBChB · MBA (Health) · Medical Informatics
Clinical safety architecture, encoding of South African clinical guidelines, human-in-the-loop design and clinical acceptance of every release.
Business Partner · Senior Clinical and Health-Systems Advisor
BSc Human Biology (Distinction) · MBChB · FRCS (Edinburgh, 1990)
Senior clinical review of the decision-support pathways and their safety envelope, validation against real surgical and primary-care practice, and coordination of the expert panel for clinical validation.
Practice Manager · User Validation and Operations Lead
Junior Bookkeeper (ICB) · 12+ years in practice administration
Practice-workflow and user-requirement definition, structured user-acceptance testing of the consultation, billing and claims workflows, and onboarding and training material.
AI at every consultation
With the patient’s consent, iScript listens. By the time you finish talking the note is drafted, the diagnosis and codes are suggested, non-billable codes are flagged and interactions are checked. You read it, change what you want, confirm. Nothing enters the record unreviewed. Unlimited, on every seat, at no charge.
“South African medicine runs on software designed to get a practitioner paid — not to help a practitioner think.”
Every suggestion is logged, including the ones you overrule. It is a better medico-legal record than you have today.
What the published evidence shows
In 39 849 primary-care visits across fifteen clinics, a passive background safety net at defined checkpoints reduced history-taking errors 32%, diagnostic errors 16%, treatment errors 13% and investigation errors 10% — with 5 666 visits independently graded by physician reviewers.
Where this stands
The decision rail is in build. We would rather publish the target and be held to it.
Investigations
Ampath orders leave with your own Ampath code. Results return as values, units and reference ranges, not a PDF in your inbox. Abnormals are highlighted and raise a task for you. Imaging requests go the same way. Point-of-care testing and remote patient monitoring are next on the same rail.
Patient app
Appointments and the video link. Results when they are ready. Prescriptions to their pharmacy. Invoices, receipts and online payment. Their medical-aid details, kept current by them, so your claims go through first time. Under your practice’s name, on any phone.
Appointments
Results
Invoice & pay
No other South African practice platform offers this.
Running in production
Live practices, live patients, real medical-scheme money. The record, the diary, the claims, the pathology, the dispensing, the telehealth and the financials are in daily use across independent and group practices — and they are the part that is free.
A production data model of more than 150 entities spanning clinical, billing, inventory, claims, communications and compliance — with row-level tenant isolation, so every practice's data is cryptographically its own.
28 structured clinical consultation templates and 12 condition templates that turn a consultation into structured data rather than a free-text note attached to an invoice.
MediKredit doctor integration built to XML specification 3.53 over certificate-based mutual TLS: member and benefit eligibility, claim submission, item-level rejection handling, reversals and electronic remittance advice.
Ampath integration across seven endpoints, parsing XML and PDF reports into discrete values, units and reference ranges. Abnormal flags raise clinician tasks automatically, with a results poller running every 30 minutes.
A billing tariff library of 25 798 codes including NAPPI, and the full ICD-10 Master Industry Table with validation edits applied before a claim is ever transmitted.
Low-latency video consultations with clinical context in-frame, compliant electronic prescriptions, WhatsApp Business API messaging, voice over IP and card payment collection — all in production.
Front desk
Bookings, billing and benefits in one place
Dispensary
NAPPI-coded stock and scripts, reconciled
Telehealth
Clinical context in-frame, not in another tab
Talk to your patient. The note writes itself.
The note, the codes and the claim are assembled from the consultation as it happens, in structure, ready for you to check and sign. It is part of the free platform, on every seat, for every one of the professions we serve.
The commercial model
Everything above: R0 on every seat, permanently. Not a trial. You pay only for the claims you submit, and for two optional business modules if you want them. Published, not quoted. Never a percentage of what you earn.
What you would save
Four inputs, no form and no email gate. The comparison is against what a South African practice typically pays seven separate suppliers for the same job.
Optional modules
Both together is SUMMIT at R1 199 — R199 a month less than buying them separately.
Your iScript cost
R3 400 /month
R41 100 a year
The Incumbent Stack
R10 800 – R21 300 /month
R129 100 – R255 700 a year
Your saving
R88 000
a year — and up to R214 600 against the top of the published band.
Just practise.
No card needed. Credits never expire.
Based on published market rates. Every input is yours to change.
Total cost of ownership
A South African practice does not buy one thing. It buys practice management, an AI scribe, a clinical reference, a website, accounting software, a bookkeeper and a claims switch — from seven different suppliers, on seven different invoices, with seven different support queues.
R12 845 – R24 495 /month
R154 140 – R293 940 a year
You keep
R92 052
to R231 852 a year
R5 174 /month
R62 088 a year
Seven vendors. Seven invoices. Seven support queues. Or one.
One practitioner, 500 medical-scheme claims a month, on SUMMIT so claims are R7.95 each. Published market rates.
| What a practice buys | Incumbent Stack | iScript |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | R1 200 – R2 800 | R0 |
| AI documentation | R1 800 – R2 700 | R0 |
| Clinical reference | R800 – R950 | R0 |
| Website | R500 – R2 000 | Included |
| Accounting software | R795 | Included |
| Bookkeeper | R3 000 – R8 000 | Included |
| SUMMIT (both modules) | — | R1 199 |
| Claims | R4 750 – R7 250 | R3 975 |
| Total per month | R12 845 – R24 495 | R5 174 |
| Total per year | R154 140 – R293 940 | R62 088 |
Where your money goes today
63%
of what a practice pays every month is not for claims at all. It is for software and for the admin that bad software creates.
That is the part we give away. You pay us for claims, and for the two business modules if you want them.
One practitioner, 500 medical-scheme claims a month, on SUMMIT so claims are R7.95 each. Published market rates.
Business modules
· R699
Just practise. Your website brings the patients.
Rebuilt on your domain, under your brand, nothing to pay for the build. Online booking straight into the diary. Digital intake that lands in the record before the patient arrives. Up to ten condition assessments that arrive as a structured chart, not an enquiry. Every page checked against HPCSA advertising rules before it goes live.
See the Website module· R699
Just practise. Your books close daily.
Every consultation, claim, dispensed item and remittance posts to a real ledger as it happens. Remittances matched to claims, claims to invoices. Stock and cost of sales without re-capture. You review; you do not capture. Your accountant gets their own login.
See the Finance moduleBoth together is SUMMIT at R1 199. R199 a month less than buying them separately, and claims drop to R7.95.
Switching
Two days from the first conversation to consulting on iScript. Your patient list, your practitioners, your tariffs and your practice codes come across; your practice numbers do not change; and your claims keep flowing the whole way through.
Commercial terms
Every figure is on one page. Published, not quoted. There is no sales call between you and the number.
The whole clinical platform, free
R0
per seat, permanently
CORE is the whole clinical platform, on every seat, at no cost and with no expiry. The patient record, the diary, the billing, the claims workflow, the AI documentation, telehealth, e-prescribing, pathology and the patient app. Not a trial, not a cut-down edition and not a step you are meant to grow out of — the same code a six-site group runs. Claims are R9.95 each, and that is the only charge there is.
One paid module — Website or Finance
R699
per practice, per month
STRIDE adds either Website or Finance to the free platform. Website turns your practice into something patients can find and book. Finance closes your books daily instead of quarterly. Neither makes you a better practitioner; both make you a better business. Claims drop from R9.95 to R8.95 each for as long as the module is on.
Both modules — Website and Finance
R1 199
per practice, per month
SUMMIT is both modules together. Bought separately they are R699 × 2 = R1 398. SUMMIT is R1 199 — R199 a month less, R2 388 a year. Claims drop to R7.95 each, the lowest rate on the ladder.
We will never put clinical quality behind a price.
Claims are prepaid and the credits never expire, and the rate falls as you move up: R9.95 on CORE, R8.95 on STRIDE, R7.95 on SUMMIT. We never charge a percentage of your claim value, a percentage of your turnover, a surcharge on card payments, a fee per telemedicine link, or a charge to get your data out.
Just practise.
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