DHA SIG – Digital Mental Health Industry Group (DMHIG) – July 2026

The DHA Digital Mental Health Industry Group, is held every two months. 

The DMHIG is representative of leading healthcare providers and digital health industry partners that provide or use software solutions related to the delivery of digital wellbeing and eMental health and addiction services. 

It is co-chaired by Vanessa Ding, Innovation Lead at Wise Group, and Andrew Cameron, CCO at Whakarongorau Aotearoa. 

SPEAKERS THIS SESSION

Belinda Allen, Partnerships and Culture Director, and Rhonda Dames, Programme Manager, Healthpoint

Belinda and Rhonda will show how Healthpoint has brought AI to New Zealand’s most comprehensive directory of health and social services, so people can describe what they need in their own words. Because a person’s needs rarely arrive one at a time, the tool navigates the whole picture, for the person and their whanau. Rhonda will demonstrate it live across 12,000 services, including more than 3,000 mental health and addiction programmes, on a 22-year directory that national health programmes already rely on. Together they will share what it takes to make AI navigation safe, private and trustworthy at national scale.

Matt Krogstad, Chief Executive Officer, Groov

Matt will share how Groov uses data, AI, and applied science to improve the consumer experience, drawing on six months of production data of Ask Groov and the AI Health Coach that was launched a few months ago supporting kiwi’s in a manner aligned to the IPMHA health coaching program.