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Monday, 24 May 2021, 5:50 am New Zealand’s leading digital health umbrella group says Aotearoa is getting the injection of funding it has been calling for to bring the public health system into the digital era. New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT) says most of the Budget’s $516 million for capital infrastructure in the health sector will go towards a new health digital system to link patient records. The digital health sector has been working toward joining up digital health records across New Zealand’s DHBs for quite some time, NZHIT chief executive Trent Lash says. Lash has replaced Scott A...

Monday, 24 May 2021, 5:48 am FintechNZ says the cyber-attack on the Waikato District Health Board is not surprising considering only six percent of Kiwi companies have adequate protection. On average, companies take about 197 days to identify and 69 days to contain a breach according to IBM, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. James Brown New Zealand has a high concentration of smart phone adoption which could make businesses and organisations more vulnerable, he says. “We have world first cyber products with Delta Insurance and Beneficial Insurance to help and protect personal cyb...

Thursday, 6 May 2021, 1:47 pm AI could be New Zealand’s electronic version of number 8 wire where special digital tools can be developed tools using AI to solve economic and social challenges, AI experts say. The issue will be a key topic at the Aotearoa AI summit in Auckland on May 12. Emma Naji, executive director of the AI Forum NZ, says significant work is being done in the field of AI and health, which is so important during the global health crisis. “Keynote speaker Jennifer Marsman, Microsoft’s cognitive search principal engineer, will talk about her ground-breaking work with c...

Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 1:47 pm Otautahi - The Manapōuri electricity supplied to the Tiwai Pt smelter near Bluff falls back into the hand of all New Zealanders to provide green and cheap power from 2024. Or will it? An Australian businessman is considering using the aluminium smelter site and Manapōuri electricity for hydrogen production. Australian billionaire Dr Andrew Forrest has reportedly considered the aluminium smelter site at for hydrogen production, probably for export. Hydrogen is a clean-burning molecule but today, 99 percent of hydrogen is still made using fossil fuels, usually...

Monday, 3 May 2021, 9:52 am New Zealand has an opportunity to create AI that not only solves big problems at home, but that can also be seen as technology that is good for the world, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Commerce and consumer affairs m inister David Clark will be opening the Aotearoa AI Summit in Auckland on May 12. The major event has attracted New Zealand’s leading AI scientists, policy makers and tech entrepreneurs to review the rapidly moving technology. The minister will be sharing the government’s thinking on a national AI strategy and other speakers such as...