"Enter the national data platform - the foundation for a $700m-plus overhaul of data and digital health..."

"The new platform will need to be able to take over, merge and make sense of petabytes of data, multiplying itself daily in 28 disparate, siloed health data warehouses, and processed by a motley, often ancient crew of hospital apps numbering in the thousands."

#PhilPennington, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/500368/te-whatu-ora-paid-big-tech-firms-to-test-failing-wellington-hospital-it-systems-then-awarded-a-contract-to-one-of-them

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Te Whatu Ora paid big tech firms to test failing Wellington hospital IT systems - then awarded a contract to one of them

Health officials offered to pay big tech firms thousands of dollars to run tests on dire hospital IT systems in the Wellington region.

RNZ