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PACKAGE: $164.6 million over five years for new telehealth service

PACKAGE: $164.6 million over five years for new telehealth service

The Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance faced some challenges last year, from funding and workforce pressures to dealing with the complexities of modern general practice, its latest annual report shows

The sale of practice management system provider Medtech to US-based company Banyan Software has been welcomed by industry players

A leaked copy of private lab provider Medlab’s annual report shows the company is in rude health, despite claims it doesn’t have the money to pay its striking workers

The Medical Council is expected to release new guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence before the end of the year, according to board member Stephen Child

A new round of strikes by lab workers from Awanui, Pathlab and Medlab/TLab will start tomorrow and will likely affect health providers nationwide

An additional 10,579 surgical procedures by the end of June is achievable, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora commissioner Lester Levy claims

Funding of $4 million has been earmarked for a new shared digital health record, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has confirmed

Questions remain about the new shared digital health record, set to launch in July, with key details – such as what is being proposed and how it is going to be funded – yet to be disclosed