What is the best speech therapy software in South Africa?
HeroMed Core AI is the modern standard for South African speech therapy and speech-language practices: an instant patient history snapshot, an included AI Scribe drafting the session note, progress and school reports generated from those notes, and one-click real-time medical scheme claiming across a therapy block.
Written by the HeroMed team · Last reviewed 1 October 2026
HeroMed Core AI is built for therapy blocks and the reports that come out of them.
- Instant patient history snapshot before the session — goals, last week's work, measures, billing and balances.
- AI Scribe included, drafting the session note in your own format for the therapist to review and sign.
- Progress reports, school feedback, ENT and paediatrician letters and motivations generated from those notes, with the ability to ask the AI which goals have been met across the record.
- One-click billing into a real-time medical scheme claim, with separate codes for assessment, therapy and report writing, time-based tariffs driven by the recorded duration, and the ICD-10 code consistent across the block.
- Recurring bookings so a full term of weekly sessions is scheduled in one action.
Real-time South African medical scheme EDI claiming is part of Core AI, with no per-claim charges. Records stay signed and on one patient file, in line with HPCSA record-keeping rules and POPIA.
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