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• healthAlliance retires Windows XP and moves to Windows 7

  Around 26,000 users to be impacted in the largest desktop upgrade of its kind in New Zealand over the next three months

• The department of transformers

  The game has changed and IT has a pivotal role to play in enabling business transformation.

• New CIO at healthAllliance

  Johan Vendrig moves to HSA as chief operating officer; ex-Vodafone CIO Claire Govier takes on role.

• IBM appliance could serve all 21 District Health Boards

  An IBM data warehouse analytics appliance purchased by the healthAlliance could serve all of New Zealand’s district health boards, according to healthAlliance.

• Auckland DHBs get storage boost from IBM

  HealthAlliance, the organisation that provides the Auckland, Northland, Waitemata and Counties-Manukau District Health Boards with shared services, has announced that it has selected IBM for a $1.6 million storage upgrade.

• HealthAlliance named top user in annual MIS100 survey

  HealthAlliance, the shared service formed by the Northern district health boards for their non-clinical services, is New Zealand’s largest IT user organisation in this year’s MIS100.

• HeathAlliance picks Oracle to minimise cost

  The licence cost was part of the motivation for district health board consortium healthAlliance’s purchase of two Oracle Exadata database machines, says applications planning manager Raymond Lodge-Osborn.
  The Exadata X2-2 models are the first to be utilised locally.

• Auckland and Northland DHBs to merge: Army CFO appointed CEO

  The three district health boards in Auckland and the Northland district health board are merging into one organisation, to be known as healthAlliance New Zealand Ltd.
  The merger covers healthAlliance, the shared services organisation for the Waitemata and Counties Manukau District Health Boards; the Auckland District Health Board; and the Northland District Health Board. The three entities all have CIOs.
  It is not yet known whether a CIO will be appointed for the new organisation, or what the reporting lines will be for the information services teams.

• Shared-care pilot proposals for Health IT plan

  HealthAlliance, the consortium of District Health Boards from the north of the country, has begun scoping possible approaches for a national shared care programme by requesting proposals for pilot projects. This will be one element of the National Health IT plan, published earlier this year.

• HealthAlliance restarts open-source desktop project

  Auckland health shared services unit HealthAlliance has resuscitated efforts to develop a standard desktop based on open-source software, but CIO Phil Brimacombe says it looks as though the District Health Boards will never be able to divorce their desktops entirely from Microsoft.

• HealthAlliance bids for national shared services role

  Auckland-based health shared services provider HealthAlliance is making a bid to lead the establishment of the national health sector shared services agency, recommended by Tony Ryall’s ministerial review group.

• Canterbury joins DHB rush for storage

  Rapidly increasing demand for storage is driving New Zealand district health boards to upgrade or even replace existing systems.

• Four-phase deployment boosts HealthAlliance service

  HealthAlliance, the shared services operation of the Counties-Manukau and Waitemata district health boards, has deployed service management software to boost its ICT delivery.

• Auckland to join healthAlliance

  Three DHBs to collaborate on drug ordering and knowledge base

• Akld DHBs fuse infrastructure

  Project Fusion purely an infrastructure project