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Digital Health Week keynote to focus on how AI is reshaping health roles

25 September; 2026

Educational futurist and founder of academyEx, Frances Valintine, will deliver a keynote address at the Digital Health Week Conference 2026, focusing on how artificial intelligence is changing roles across the health workforce and what clinicians and leaders can do to navigate that shift.

AI & ANALYTICS

AI-assisted pathology tool tackles cancer coding

23 September; 2026

New Zealand's Cancer Control Agency Te Aho o Te Kahu, has successfully trialled an AI-assisted structured pathology reporting system that converts histology findings directly into fully coded structured data, and is preparing for its second phase.

AI & ANALYTICS

GP registrars to trial AI-supported simulated consultations

22 September; 2026

The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is trialling an AI-supported learning platform with a targeted group of GP registrars.

AI & ANALYTICS

Technology most powerful lever to improve health outcomes – Health NZ chair

18 September; 2026

Technology is the most powerful lever available to improve health outcomes, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora board chair Mark Darrow says.

NATIONAL SYSTEMS & STRATEGY

Clinical trials provider latest health sector organisation to suffer cyber breach

10 September; 2026

Police are investigating and Health New Zealand is supporting a Dunedin-based clinical trial service provider as it responds to a cyber incident in which it appears health information has been stolen and posted online.

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

Features

Building the foundation for enterprise imaging: lessons from Germany

25 September; 2026

Industry Innovation Article - Dedalus
New Zealand’s healthcare organisations are managing growing volumes of imaging and multimedia content, increasing demand for enterprise-wide access, and a need to securely share information across care networks.

CLINICAL SOFTWARE

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My View - We keep building good things, then defunding them

21 September; 2026

The digital health sector does not need another re-invention, or another reset, it needs the one thing politics almost never offers it, a funded horizon long enough to finish what it starts, writes The Opportunity Party candidate Holly Knill.

NATIONAL SYSTEMS & STRATEGY

My View - Cyber resilience is about people, not just technology

11 September; 2026

Recovering from a cyber incident is about much more than technology, it is about restoring confidence in your organisation, your services and your people, writes Jean-Pierre Walle, group manager security assurance, Health New Zealand.

AI & ANALYTICS