National digital identity modernised for health

eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is modernising and consolidating its digital identity solutions to create a faster, more consistent process for up to 125,000 staff logging into its systems every day.

SailPoint has been piloted for corporate users within Health NZ since April, with plans to extend it to clinical systems in the coming months.

Garry Johnston, data and digital programme lead, national programmes, says the legacy systems that supported the 28 entities that became Health NZ still exist and the organisation needs to integrate these disparate systems into a unified framework.

This fragmentation means users, who often work across former DHB boundaries, experience inconsistent onboarding and access processes.

Health NZ has around 125,000 users logging into its systems on a daily basis, including employees, contractors, and external partners.

"Our users still experience the echo of the former organisations that those systems supported," Johnston said.

“We are looking at ways of consolidating and standardising the experience for our users.”

SailPoint is a cloud-based SaaS application and Johnston says the platform is expected to save considerable time and resources.

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