Health data access reduced as Hira services halted

HiNZ eHealthNews editor Rebecca McBeth.

Consumers and clinicians will have reduced access to summary health data following the pause or shutdown of a number of services developed under the Hira programme due to Budget cuts, a letter to the Minister of Health says.

An industry leader says the loss of funding has already resulted in the departure of key people with vital institutional knowledge and stalled the development of critical digital tools to enable the frontline.

Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora director strategy and investment Darren Douglass wrote to the Minister of Health on May 28, just two days before the budget was announced, to summarise the impact of planned cuts.

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