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Tend Health to acquire Green Cross medical division, bringing 65 clinics onto technology platform2 June; 2026 Digi-physical healthcare provider Tend Health has entered into an agreement to buy the medical division of Green Cross Health Limited, integrating 65 medical centres operating under The Doctors brand onto Tend's technology platform. DIGITAL PATIENT
Third-Party providers should be held liable for data breaches - Privacy Commissioner25 May; 2026 The Privacy Commissioner has recommended amendments to the Privacy Act that would hold third-party providers liable for security failures, even when they are collecting or storing data on behalf of another agency. INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Budget 2026 commits $450 million to digital health28 May; 2026 Budget 2026 commits more than $450 million to digital health, including $153.6 million in funding for cybersecurity over the next four years and $300 million to deliver the first three years of the Health Digital Investment Plan. NATIONAL SYSTEMS & STRATEGY
Tech ‘front and centre’ for new Health NZ board28 May; 2026 Technology is ‘front and centre’ for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora and the new board has made the first of its decisions around investing in core systems, says recently appointed board chair Mark Darrow. NATIONAL SYSTEMS & STRATEGY
Manage My Health and Health NZ breached Privacy Act27 May; 2026 The Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand are strengthening cyber security across the health system following independent reviews into the Manage My Health cyber incident, which resulted in the private health information of 99,000 New Zealanders being accessed, stolen and put up for sale. INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
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Analytics and near real-time data drive transformation at Health NZ26 May; 2026 Industry Innovation Article - Acumen BI Views
My View - Hospital in the home is not the model we should be scaling18 May; 2026 Hospitalisation is what happens when life has broken down enough that autonomy disappears. It is sometimes necessary, but it is never the goal. We should be aspiring to a system in which it is needed less often, not delivering more of it more efficiently in more places, writes Fellow of HiNZ Karl Cole. DIGITAL PATIENT
My View - Safety is everyone's responsibility11 May; 2026 In a digital era, clinical safety extends to electronic systems that consumers, patients and healthcare workers use every day, writes clinical informatics director Brian Yow. INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
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