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Friday, 16 April 2021, 5:58 am Tāmaki Makaurau - The overall level of digital competency in Aotearoa’s health workforce is well below what is needed to utilise digital health technology, a brand new New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT) report says. It is also crucial that effective leadership, targeted funding and change management is prioritised to increase our health workforces digital literacy skills. The NZHIT report says healthcare has yet to undergo the consumer driven digital revolution tha...

Source: MakeLemonade.nz Tāmaki Makaurau – The overall level of digital competency in Aotearoa’s health workforce is well below what is needed to utilise digital health technology, a brand new New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT) report says. It is also crucial that effective leadership, targeted funding and change management is prioritised to increase our health workforce’s digital literacy skills. The NZHIT report says healthcare has yet to undergo the consumer driven digital revolution that h...

Source: MakeLemonade.nz Tāmaki Makaurau – New Zealand financial companies and organisations will embrace upcoming changes today announced by government for them to report on their annual emissions, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. Aotearoa NZ has become the first country in the world to introduce a law that requires the financial sector to disclose the impacts of climate change on their business. Becoming the first country in the world to introduce a law like this means Aotearoa ...

Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 10:21 am Otautahi - Tomorrow is world health day which is more significant for New Zealanders than ever before as the global covid pandemic pushed more people into poverty, food insecurity and amplified social and health inequities. This World Health Day should celebrate the work of nurses and health workers who are at the forefront of the covid response providing high quality. Without nurses, there would be no response. To highlight world health day, ExerciseNZ wants to...

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 4:27 pm Ray Avery with Jupl covid tracking watch. A New Zealand medical company says it has the answer to provide the government with the most effective covid tracking technology. Today the government scrapped its planned covid card tracking technology card. Jupl, co-founded by pharmaceutical scientist Sir Ray Avery, says it can supply the government with wearable covid watches, based on Samsung hardware and with Jupl’s medical monitoring system. The Jupl watch app ...

Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – Many of New Zealand’s pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) experts will provide the latest news and outline new trends at the Aotearoa AI summit in Auckland on March 17. One of the key speakers is a founder of AI company Soul Machines, Greg Cross, who lives in New Zealand but creates businesses that compete on the international stage. Soul Machines is at the cutting edge of AI research and its unique Digital Brain, based on the latest neuroscie...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 1:16 pm ShadowTech Teachers, a game-changing programme for teachers run by NZTech and supported by the Ministry of Education, is taking teachers, the key influencers of students, into tech firms to see first hand exciting tech careers. It is an opportunity to showcase the tech world and for teachers to return to the classroom and lay a path for students to get into tech after they leave school. The event enables teachers to understand how to connect their local digi...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 7:36 am NZTech says that it is time for the government to put funding into educating New Zealanders about how to avoid being a victim of cybercrime, just as government does for road safety. About 87 percent of Kiwis concede security of their personal information online is important but 40 percent say safeguarding their information is inconvenient, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. As New Zealand businesses operate within an increasingly digital environment,...

Internationally-award winning Kiwi exercise company Les Mills is offering free access to the world’s best group fitness workouts to New Zealanders next month, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. From March 1, TVNZ OnDemand will offer five ...

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:14 am New Zealand’s tech sector is struggling to get enough skilled staff despite strong job growth and thousands of new tech jobs being created every year, a new survey says. The Kiwi economy is being seriously restricted by a digital skills mismatch during difficult covid times, it says. Digital technology businesses are having problems attracting, developing and retaining people with tech and creative skills needed to help New Zealand grow faster, especially o...