Deborah Powell: NZ Resident Doctors Association National Secretary on outdated IT systems emerging as a major issue in health service reforms

Deborah Powell: NZ Resident Doctors Association National Secretary on outdated IT systems emerging as a major issue in health service reforms

Author: Newstalk ZB January 8, 2024 Duration: 7:28

Outdated IT systems have emerged as one of the major issues in health service reforms. The issue has come to light in the handling of a 12 year-old girls’s radiology records at Hawke’s Bay hospital.  

NZ Resident Doctors Association National Secretary Deborah Powell tells Tim Dower there are substantial risks arising from flawed IT systems. 

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