For homeopaths
Practice software for South African homeopaths
Homeopathic practice produces long case histories and usually dispenses from the same room, under a council most practice software has never modelled.
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In short
iScript.live gives homeopaths structured long-form case records, dispensing tracked against stock that posts to the ledger, telehealth and patient messaging, and claim submission through MediKredit. Homeopaths are regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982, not by the HPCSA.
iScript.live is a multi-tenant, AI-native healthcare practice platform built in South Africa by Lighthouse iScript (Pty) Ltd. This page is about what iScript.live does for homeopaths practising in South Africa. Homeopaths in South Africa are regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982, not by the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
A homeopath takes a long case history and prescribes according to homeopathic principles, usually dispensing from the same rooms. Homeopathic practice in South Africa is regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa, not by the HPCSA.
This page covers what iScript.live does for a homeopathic practice: long case records that stay navigable, a dispensary inside the consultation, and a regulator most practice software has never modelled.
At a glance
- Platform
- iScript.live, built by Lighthouse iScript (Pty) Ltd
- Profession this page is about
- Homeopaths
- Regulating council
- Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa
- Governing statute
- Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982
- Country of practice
- South Africa
No registration-number prefix is published here. It could not be verified against an authoritative source, and a wrong one would be worse than none.
What actually gets in the way
Where the day goes in homeopaths' practice
None of this is a software problem in the abstract. Each of these is an hour, a rejected claim or a clinical decision made with less information than it deserved.
Long case histories in unsearchable form
An initial consultation can produce an hour of detail, and stored as a single block of text it cannot be navigated at the follow-up.
Dispensing reconciled by hand
Remedies dispensed in the practice are recorded on the invoice and counted on the shelf, and the two rarely agree.
No software written for the regulator
Systems built for HPCSA professions do not reflect AHPCSA registration, so practices work in generic tools.
A day in the practice
What a working day looks like on iScript.live
Homeopathy produces more narrative per consultation than almost any other discipline, and dispenses from the room it consults in. Both facts shape what the software has to do.
Initial consultation
An hour of detail, held in navigable sections
Structured sections hold the case history, the assessment, the prescription and the follow-up, so an hour of detail is retrievable at the follow-up rather than being one undifferentiated block of text.
LivePrescribing
The dispensary is inside the consultation
Remedies and consumables are stock items. Dispensing happens in the consultation, moves inventory and posts to the general ledger, so the dispensary reconciles to clinical activity rather than to a shelf count.
Follow-up
The follow-up can find what the first consultation established
Because the case is held in sections rather than in prose, a follow-up starts from what was recorded rather than from a re-reading of everything.
Where the consultation is remote
Video with the record in frame
Remote consultation with the record in frame, with messaging and card payment collection in the same workflow. Whether remote is appropriate remains a clinical judgement under AHPCSA scope and guidance.
Live
What you get, and what is still being built
The platform, read from your side of the desk
Every capability on this list is in production and in daily use. We keep the roadmap and the reality on separate lists on purpose.
Long-form case records with structure
Structured templates hold the case history, assessment, prescription and follow-up as navigable sections rather than one undifferentiated note, so a follow-up can find what the initial consultation established.
Structured consultation workflow
Clinical, dispensing and financial in one model
A production model of more than 150 entities spanning clinical, billing, inventory and claims with row-level tenant isolation, integrated with ERPNext for stock and the general ledger.
Multi-tenant clinical core
Remote consultations and follow-up
Video consultation with the record in frame, WhatsApp Business API messaging and card payment collection, so a follow-up consultation and its payment are one workflow.
Telehealth, e-prescribing and messaging
Eligibility and claim submission
MediKredit integration to XML specification 3.53 over certificate-based mutual TLS for member and benefit eligibility, submission, item-level rejection handling and remittance advice.
Real-time medical-scheme claim switching
Built today, or being built
What is live, and what is not, in one table
The same list as the cards above, in the form a sceptical reader wants it. Every status in the right-hand column is resolved from the platform roadmap at the moment this page renders. None of it is typed by hand.
| Capability | Platform capability it comes from | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Long-form case records with structure | Structured consultation workflow | Live |
| Clinical, dispensing and financial in one model | Multi-tenant clinical core | Live |
| Remote consultations and follow-up | Telehealth, e-prescribing and messaging | Live |
| Eligibility and claim submission | Real-time medical-scheme claim switching | Live |
4 of these 4 capabilities are in production today. Anything in development is not available to buy, is not in a beta programme, and should not be counted on when you make a decision.
Why this is different
A long case history needs structure to remain usable
Homeopathy generates more narrative per consultation than almost any other discipline, and the value of that narrative depends entirely on being able to find something in it a year later. Structured sections over free narrative keep the depth while making the record navigable, and the dispensary sits inside the same record rather than beside it.
- Long case records held in navigable structured sections.
- Dispensing inside the consultation, moving stock and posting to the ledger.
- Telehealth, messaging and payment in one workflow.
What it replaces
What actually comes out of the practice
Homeopathic practices commonly run a word processor, a dispensary book and a generic invoicing tool.
| What a practice runs today | What it becomes |
|---|---|
| An hour of case history as one block of text | Navigable structured sections holding the same depthLive |
| A dispensary book reconciled to a shelf count | Stock moving at the point of dispensing, posting to the general ledger |
| Invoices typed separately from the consultation | An account produced from the consultation, with card payment collection |
| Software with no concept of the AHPCSA | A platform that records your council and your statute correctly |
Keeping the depth while making it navigable is the whole design problem here. Shortening the case record would not be an improvement.
Billing and medical schemes
How homeopaths actually get paid
Homeopathic practice in South Africa is commonly funded privately, with scheme claiming a smaller and plan-dependent share.
Claims are submitted through the live MediKredit integration with member and benefit eligibility available beforehand and item-level rejection reasons, reversals and remittance advice returning against the claim.
Whether a homeopathic consultation or a dispensed remedy is a benefit on a given plan is determined by the AHPCSA registration, the practice code number and the scheme's rules. This site asserts nothing about it.
Private payment and dispensing revenue are treated as primary. The patient can be their own debtor, dispensed items sit on the same account as the consultation, and card payment collection is live.
Where the practice is predominantly private and dispensing-led, the per-claim model and the inventory scope matter more than the claiming rail.
The billing mechanics, and their status
- Patient as their own debtor
- Live.
- Dispensed items on the consultation account
- Live.
- Dispensary stock movement
- Live, posting to the general ledger.
- Card payment collection
- Live.
- Scheme eligibility and claim submission
- Live, through MediKredit.
Who else touches it
Who else in the practice uses this, and what they can see
A practice is not one person, and a clinical record that only the clinician can reach is a record somebody else will keep a second copy of. Roles are configured by the practice, not assumed by the platform, and every role is scoped at row level.
| Role | What they do, and what they can see |
|---|---|
| The practitioner | Consults, records, prescribes where the registration allows it, and submits. Sees the full clinical record for patients within the practice. |
| Reception and front desk | Books, checks members in, confirms eligibility before the appointment and takes payment. Sees the demographic, appointment and account layers, not the clinical note. |
| Billing and accounts | Works claims, item-level rejections, reversals and remittance advice, and reconciles what was paid against what was submitted. Sees coded lines, not free-text clinical content. |
| Practice manager or owner | Configures the practice, the sites, the fees, the templates and who may do what. Sees activity and financial reporting across every site in the group. |
| A supervisor, where the registration requires one | Countersigns and reviews the work of a practitioner practising under supervision, against the same record rather than a printed copy of it. |
| An assistant, associate or locum | Joins the practice as a provider rather than as a shared login, so their activity is attributable to them and ends when their association does. |
Every read, write and export carries the actor, the timestamp and the reason, so who saw what is answerable rather than reconstructed.
Getting started
From registration to a working practice, and what moving across involves
Onboarding is measured in days rather than in an implementation project. Nothing here requires a server, a site visit or a consultant. Migrating history is the separate question, and it is answered below rather than skipped.
Standing the practice up
01
Register the practice
Online registration produces a tenant with your branding and subdomain, for a single practitioner or a group.
02
Load your dispensary
Remedies and consumables are set up as stock items so dispensing moves inventory and posts to the ledger.
03
Consult, dispense, claim
Case records are captured in structure, dispensing happens inside the consultation, and the validated claim is submitted in real time.
Moving off your current system
Moving practice software is the part everybody underestimates, so it is worth being exact about what is quick and what is not. Standing the practice up, as set out above, is quick. Bringing a decade of history across is not, and is scoped as its own piece of work.
Step 1
Run in parallel for a short period
Most practices keep the outgoing system readable while they work live in the new one, rather than attempting a hard cut-over on a Monday morning. Nothing about the platform requires the old system to be switched off first.
Step 2
Bring patients across
Patient demographics, medical-aid details and balances import first, because those are what reception needs on day one. Clinical history follows, and how much of it comes across as structured data rather than as attached documents depends entirely on what the outgoing system will export.
Step 3
Move the money last
Open claims and outstanding debtors are the last thing to move, and usually the cleanest approach is to finish the claim cycle already in flight on the old system while new work starts on the new one.
Historic-data migration is quoted separately from the platform, because its length is a property of the outgoing system rather than of this one. A practice that exports well is a short piece of work. A practice whose history exists only as scanned paper is a decision about how much of it is worth carrying.
Regulation, record-keeping and compliance
What the record has to survive
Clinical software carries the most sensitive data a person has, and a regulator will eventually read what it produced. Compliance is designed into the platform rather than certified around it afterwards.
Not an HPCSA profession
Homeopaths in South Africa are regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA) under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982, not by the HPCSA. Registration, scope and dispensing obligations are set by the AHPCSA and the relevant medicines legislation.
Registration authority
Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA)
Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa, under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982.
Regulated by the AHPCSA, not the HPCSA
Homeopathy is regulated under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982 by the AHPCSA. Registration, scope of practice and dispensing obligations are set by that council and the relevant medicines legislation, and nothing on this page should be read as HPCSA guidance.
Records and POPIA
Case records, consent and dispensing are held as one auditable record with an immutable audit trail, alongside lawful processing, data residency and subject-access handling.
The record has to be attributable
Every clinical entry carries who made it, when, and against which consent, on an immutable audit trail. An entry that is later corrected shows as a correction rather than replacing what was there, because a record that can be silently rewritten is not evidence of anything.
The record has to be retrievable years later
Clinical records outlive software, staff and sometimes practices. Records are held as structured data with their coding intact and are exportable, so the practice is not dependent on this platform continuing to exist in order to read its own history. Statutory retention periods are set by the regulator and the relevant legislation, not by us, and are not restated on this page.
Consent is part of the record, not a filing cabinet
Consent to treat, consent to a remote consultation and consent to share are captured in the consultation and stored against it, so the consent that applied at the time is retrievable with the entry it applied to.
The regulator is the AHPCSA, and this page says so
Registration, scope of practice and dispensing obligations for homeopaths are set by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982, together with the relevant medicines legislation. Nothing on this page should be read as HPCSA guidance.
A long record has to remain usable, not just retained
A case history that cannot be navigated a year later has been kept but not preserved in any useful sense. Structured sections are what keep the depth of a homeopathic record accessible to the practitioner who has to use it.
What it costs
How this is priced, and what the quote depends on
The clinical platform is free, on every seat, permanently. You pay only for the medical claims you submit — at a rate that falls as you add modules — and optionally for the two business modules themselves. Every figure is published below rather than quoted on request.
01
CORE — the clinical platform, R0
The record, the diary, the billing, the claims workflow and the AI documentation, on every seat, at no cost and with no expiry. Not a trial and not a cut-down edition. Claims are R9.95 each on CORE, and that is the only charge.
02
R9.95, R8.95 or R7.95 per claim submitted
You pay for claims you actually send, from prepaid credits that never expire. The rate falls as you move up: R9.95 on CORE, R8.95 on STRIDE with one module, R7.95 on SUMMIT with both. Never a percentage of what the claim is worth, and never a percentage of what you earn.
03
STRIDE R699 a module, SUMMIT R1 199 for both
Website and Finance are optional business modules. They do not make you a better practitioner; they make you a better business, and they lower your per-claim rate while they are on. Neither is required to practise on the platform.
What the quote turns on
- How many medical-scheme claims you actually submit in a month — that is the only usage-based charge there is.
- Whether you want the Website module, the Finance module, both, or neither — which also sets your per-claim rate: R9.95 on CORE, R8.95 on STRIDE, R7.95 on SUMMIT.
- Nothing else. Seats are free, sites are free, storage is free, and support is not a tier.
- Migrating historic patient data from an outgoing system is scoped separately and quoted before any work starts.
- Nothing here is indexed to your turnover, your collections or the value of your claims.
For homeopaths specifically
Homeopathic practices are usually private and dispensing-led, which points to the per-claim model with inventory and general-ledger posting treated as central to scope.
Every price on this site is published, not quoted. We never charge a percentage of what you earn. Registering a practice does not commit you to a contract.
Ask for a quote for your practiceObjections
The reasons not to do this, answered
Every one of these has been said to us by a practitioner in this profession or one adjacent to it. Where the answer is no, it says no.
Will structure force me to shorten the case?
No, and shortening it would be the wrong outcome. The sections exist so that an hour of detail can be navigated, not so that less of it is recorded. Length is not the problem; findability is.
Is there a repertory or materia medica in the platform?
No. There is no repertory, materia medica or prescribing reference for homeopathy in the platform, and implying one would be wrong. The case, the prescription and the dispensary are held in the record; your prescribing references remain your own.
Most software assumes the HPCSA. Does this?
No. Homeopathy is recorded as AHPCSA-regulated under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982 in the configuration behind these pages. The profession parameter carried from this page into signup deliberately resolves to nothing on the engine's HPCSA taxonomy, so you will select your own registration rather than have a wrong one pre-filled.
Questions practitioners actually ask
Homeopaths and iScript.live
Short, direct answers, each written to make sense on its own if it is read without the question above it or the page around it.
Which council regulates homeopaths in South Africa?
Homeopaths are regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982. They are not registered with the HPCSA, which regulates a separate set of twelve professional boards. Nothing on this page should be read as HPCSA guidance for homeopathic practice.
Is there practice management software for homeopaths in South Africa?
iScript.live provides structured long-form case records, dispensing tracked against stock that posts to the general ledger, telehealth and patient messaging, and claim submission through MediKredit with member eligibility confirmed beforehand. Long case records are held in navigable structured sections rather than as one undifferentiated block of text.
Can a homeopathic practice manage its dispensary in iScript.live?
Yes. Remedies and consumables are held as stock items, and dispensing inside the consultation moves inventory and posts to the general ledger through the platform's ERPNext integration, so the dispensary reconciles to clinical activity. Stock therefore reconciles at the point of dispensing rather than at a month-end count.
Can homeopaths consult online through iScript.live?
Yes. Low-latency video consultation with the record in frame is live, together with patient messaging and card payment collection. Whether a remote consultation is appropriate remains a clinical judgement under AHPCSA scope and guidance. Notes, consent and card payment collection stay inside the same workflow as the consultation.
Does iScript.live include a homeopathic repertory or materia medica?
No. There is no repertory, materia medica or homeopathic prescribing reference in the platform. The case history, the assessment, the prescription and the dispensary are held in the structured clinical record, while prescribing references remain the practitioner's own.
Does iScript.live recognise that homeopaths are regulated by the AHPCSA?
Yes. Homeopathy is recorded as regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982 in the configuration behind these pages, and nothing on the homeopathy page should be read as HPCSA guidance.
How does a homeopathic practice keep a long case history usable on iScript.live?
The case is held in navigable structured sections covering the history, the assessment, the prescription and the follow-up, rather than as one undifferentiated block of text. The depth of the record is preserved; what changes is that a follow-up can find what the initial consultation established.
The setting
What homeopaths and their practices look like on this platform
Editorial images, chosen to show the setting the software is used in rather than a stock photograph of a laptop.
These are AI-generated editorial images. They depict no real practitioner, patient or premises, and are not photographs of anyone on this platform or of any of the practices named elsewhere on this site.
Regulated by the AHPCSA
Other professions registered with the Allied Health Professions (AHPCSA) board
Chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, phytotherapy, ayurveda, Chinese medicine and therapeutic aromatherapy, massage and reflexology. These professions are regulated by the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa under the Allied Health Professions Act 63 of 1982 — not by the HPCSA. If you have landed on the wrong page for your own registration, the right one is probably below.
All 28 professions, grouped by boardBring your practice onto the platform
Register your practice and record one full case
Capture an initial consultation in structure, dispense from the same record, and see whether the follow-up can find what it needs.