Health NZ Faces Hospital IT Outages
A technical failure at a commercial datacentre overnight Wednesday forced several public hospitals in Auckland and Northland to use pen and paper for about 12 hours, the fourth outage this month. The Centre for Digital Modernisation of Health began on December 1 with $19.5 million funding only secured to June, while Health NZ contends with prior IT staff cuts and uncertain longer-term funding.
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Official reporting of repeated national hospital outages and funding uncertainty; relevance high but limited novel technical detail.
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