Ann Browett RGON, BHSc (Nursing), FHiNZ

Recently retired Clinical Business Analyst Lead and Scrum Master
HiNZ Life Member | Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand | CiLN Member

My nursing career spans Emergency and Intensive care nursing (general and cardio-thoracic), Clinical nurse education and latterly informatics. I have worked in the public and private health care settings. Working in a digital services team with nursing as a mainstay provides a unique opportunity to inform and lead digital service teams about the requirements and opportunities for clinical teams. All clinicians are integral, with nurse’s key members for any digital transformation.

Throughout my career, I have remained committed to advancing the field of health informatics, reflected in my ongoing involvement with professional associations. and have previously served in several HiNZ executive positions, including as the inaugural Chairperson. My experience and dedication underscore my continued passion for health informatics and my desire to contribute to the sector’s ongoing growth and innovation.

As a board member I would bring a nursing and clinical perspective to the governance of HiNZ.

Mark Dingle MMgt, MBA(Distn.)

Board Chair, Midwifery & Maternity Providers Organisation | Principal Consultant, Evaluate Consulting Limited
HiNZ Member | Member NZ Institute of Directors 

Kia ora koutou, 

My name is Mark Dingle, and I am standing for election to the Board of Directors of Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ). 

For more than two decades, I have worked across healthcare and other sectors through my public sector consulting practice, leading complex programmes and delivering transformational change in demanding operational environments. Over that time, I have seen significant advances in digital technology — yet too often, those advances have not translated into better clinical or patient outcomes. It is time for that to change. 

We must start treating data as the valuable asset that it is. Too frequently, data is viewed as a transactional by product rather than a powerful tool to improve decision making, service delivery, and health outcomes. HiNZ has a critical leadership role to play in shaping this shift — supporting the sector to use information and technology in ways that genuinely improve care for New Zealanders. 

My career has focused on turning strategy into action. I bring deep experience in programme and project leadership, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with a strong track record of delivering results across complex, multi organisation settings. I am comfortable working with clinicians, executives, technologists, policymakers, and community stakeholders to design and implement change that sticks. 

In addition to my consulting background, I offer more than nine years of governance experience across private sector, NGO, and not for profit organisations. I understand the responsibilities of board stewardship, sound governance, and constructive challenge. I’m committed to contributing thoughtfully and collaboratively at the board table. 

If elected, I would bring a balanced, practical, and member focused perspective to the HiNZ Board, helping strengthen its influence and impact across the health sector. 

Thank you for your support. I would be honoured to serve HiNZ and its members. 

Ngā mihi Mark Dingle 

Swithin Foote 

Integration Practice Lead, Middleware Group Leadership Team
HiNZ Member | Sparked Member

I am a key member of the leadership team at The Middleware Group, where I serve as Practice Lead for Middleware New Zealand and Technology Lead for the Glueware product group. Since joining the organisation in 2013, I have played a pivotal role in establishing a thriving, ethics-driven business that is proudly owned and operated by New Zealanders, for New Zealanders. Under my leadership, the practice has grown with a strong commitment to open technologies and solutions that deliver tangible benefits for local communities and industries.

Prior to joining The Middleware Group, I gained extensive experience in the financial services sector, working in major international hubs including London and Edinburgh. In these roles, I provided technical leadership across several high-profile programmes, delivering innovative solutions while navigating complex regulatory and operational environments. This experience strengthened my capability in project leadership, stakeholder engagement, and driving outcomes in fast-paced and high-accountability settings.

I am passionate about improving interoperability within the Aotearoa New Zealand health sector. I strongly believe that empowering patients with safe, accurate, and appropriately governed access to their health information is fundamental to improving health outcomes. My work and advocacy align closely with modern healthcare approaches that prioritise data-driven service delivery, patient centred care, and stronger collaboration across the health ecosystem.

With a career spanning more than two decades, I have established myself as a thought leader in technology, integration, and interoperability. I am committed to ethical practice, local capability building, and the use of technology as a catalyst for meaningful and sustainable change across New Zealand’s healthcare and technology landscapes.

I am seeking election to the board because I have spent a significant portion of my career working in health sector interoperability and have seen first-hand both inspirational innovation as well as unnecessary complexity that often emerges in this space. Too often, simple problems are made unnecessarily difficult by solutions that assume a lack of capability or trust in end users. My experience has shown the opposite: clinicians, patients, and whānau want access to good, accurate, and relevant information, delivered in a way that supports their decision-making rather than obstructs it. They want patients actively involved through clear, well-designed consent mechanisms, and they want systems that are frictionless, reliable, and fit for purpose. As a board member, I would advocate for a pragmatic, standards based, user-centred approach to interoperability, guided by the belief that trust, simplicity, and data quality are essential foundations. My long-term motivation is to help ensure that my children and future generations in Aotearoa benefit from a fully connected, consent-driven health record. A record that enables health professionals and related services such as welfare, energy, and transport to access appropriate information in ways that support better, more equitable outcomes for all New Zealanders.

Thank you for this exciting opportunity.

Ngā mihi.

Natasha Prendergast MSc

Quality & Audit Lead, Health Information Services, Health New Zealand
Current HiNZ Board Member | HiNZ Member | Member NZ Institute of Directors

I bring over 15 years’ experience across governance and entrepreneurship, alongside nearly 10 years working in Health Information Management within the health system. This experience has given me a strong appreciation for the realities faced by clinicians, digital health teams and industry partners, and for the important role HiNZ plays in bringing our community together in a trusted and constructive way.

Over the past three years on the HiNZ Board, I have been grateful for the opportunity to grow from an intern to an elected Board member, and now to serve as Chair of the Finance and Risk Sub-Committee. In this role, my focus has been on supporting HiNZ’s financial sustainability, strengthening risk oversight, and ensuring the organisation remains stable, credible and well-governed for its members.

HiNZ is a special organisation within Aotearoa New Zealand’s digital health landscape — a place where ideas are shared, relationships are built, and progress is shaped across the sector. I was proud to celebrate HiNZ’s 25-year milestone last year and am deeply committed to helping steward the organisation into its next chapter. Guided by kaitiakitanga, I take my governance responsibilities seriously and am motivated to help ensure HiNZ remains relevant, resilient and impactful for the next 25 years.

I would be honoured to continue serving the HiNZ membership and contributing to a strong and future-focused Board.

Rowena Woolgar BSc(Hons)

Director, Arise Consulting
HiNZ Member | Member NZ Institute of Directors  | NAHSTIG Council Member | CiLN Member

I’m standing for election to the Board of HiNZ, bringing a delivery-led governance lens and a deliberately cross-sector perspective. With over a decade spanning allied health clinical practice, senior operational leadership, medium and large-scale digital and workforce transformation projects, and governance advisory roles, my work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution across Aotearoa’s digital health ecosystem.

I began my career as a speech-language therapist specialising in neurology, which gives me a grounding in person-centred care and the real world complexity clinicians, patients, and whānau face. I later transitioned through senior Project, Programme, Portfolio and Enterprise leadership, across health and non-health sectors at local, regional, national and international scale. This has included senior roles within one of New Zealand’s largest hospitals, participation in South Island-wide digital health governance groups, and close partnership with clinical leaders and technology vendors spanning a number of years and companies.

I now lead Arise Consulting, supporting Boards, executives, and sector leaders with digital transformation, operational uplift, disability inclusion, and workforce capability. My current work spans Health and Community Support Services input, Māori disability leadership and enterprise IT transformation in the energy sector. I’m an active contributor to the informatics community through the Clinical Informatics Leadership Network and recently appointed to the NAHSTIG Council. I’m passionate about ensuring digital health strategy translates into safe, equitable, and practical outcomes. As a Board member, I would bring governance shaped by real delivery, a deep understanding of vendor and provider system relationships, and a strong commitment to digitally enabled care for our national community.