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Ministry of Health breaks down costs of controversial immunisation register
Core of new National Immunisation Register will cost $15.1 million.
Shayne Hunter (Ministry of Health) Credit: Supplied
Ministry of Health deputy director-general of data and digital Shayne Hunter has broken down the costs of a controversial new, Salesforce-based immunisation register.
The project attracted strong blow-back from incumbent supplier Orion Health last week when that company s founder and CEO, Ian McCrae, alleged up to $35 million had been squandered and called on the Auditor-General to investigate.
Amazon doubles NZ staff, moves into larger digs
11 May, 2021 05:45 AM
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Managing director Nick Walton opens Amazon Web Services Commercial Bay office in downtown Auckland and reveals what s ahead for clients now they can meet face-to-face. Video / NZ Herald
Managing director Nick Walton opens Amazon Web Services Commercial Bay office in downtown Auckland and reveals what s ahead for clients now they can meet face-to-face. Video / NZ Herald
Amazon Web Services has hired 50 local staff in the past year, taking its total complement to more than 100, AWS NZ managing director Nick Walton said today. Walton made his comments as AWS opened
Orion Health calls for audit of MoH procurement of $38m immunisation platform Written by Kate McDonald on
07 May 2021.
Health IT vendor Orion Health has asked New Zealand’s Auditor-General to investigate the Ministry of Health’s procurement of the new National Immunisation Solution (NIS), saying the ministry had ignored normal processes and had used incorrect information in its business case.
In a letter to Auditor-General John Ryan, Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae said the reported $38 million price tag for the new system, which is being developed by the ministry using Salesforce and AWS technology, was a “scandalous figure” and that an upgrade to the existing National Immunisation Register (NIR), which Orion provides, was all that was needed.
Scandalous : $38m overspend on vaccine software? Orion boss Ian McCrae complains to Auditor-General
6 May, 2021 02:20 AM
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Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae wants a review of what he sees as a flawed procurement process and a resulting overspend and delays on the software used to manage our Covid-19 jabs. Photo / Michael Craig
Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae wants a review of what he sees as a flawed procurement process and a resulting overspend and delays on the software used to manage our Covid-19 jabs. Photo / Michael Craig Orion Health chief executive Ian McCrae has followed up on his threat, made in a Herald interview, to lay a complaint with the Auditor-General over the procurement process for a new software system to manage
Scandalous $35m overspend on vaccine software? Ministry hits back
7 May, 2021 05:20 AM
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A top health boss has bit back at claims that the Government overspent by up to $35 million on a new vaccine management system after a no-tender procurement process. But, at the same time, a number of IT industry figures have backed a complaint that Orion Health chief executive Ian McCrae laid with the Auditor-General yesterday.
McCrae wants a full review of the procurement process for a new software system to manage vaccinations - including the crucial Covid-19 inoculation programme - which the Ministry of Health has said would cost $38m ($15m from money already allocated for a new system, plus $23m from a contingency fund), with US giants Salesforce and Amazon as key technology partners.