E-lated: What’s lagging with New Zealand health IT?

In 2012, a national health IT plan aimed for all New Zealanders to have electronic access to a core set of personal health information by the end of 2014. It didn’t happen. The ball got rolling towards greater use of texting and the trifecta of e-prescribing, e-referrals and e-laboratory reporting, but progress has been slow. Reporter Simon Maude finds out where all the stop-start change has landed us