Digital security is under the microscope, with the Ministry of Health encouraging health organisations to ensure the digital services they use are safe and reliable by the publication of data requirements organisations are expected to meet.
Requirements specify that organisations must govern the data they hold in line with data protection and use, privacy, social license and Māori data sovereignty guidelines.
"We know many individual health agencies will use a wide range of technology from many different suppliers," said Shayne Hunter, Deputy Director-General Data and Digital.
"The requirements strongly signal a move to a more open approach where digital services are cloud-based, continually evolve and share data with other services – rather than working in isolation, or only working within an organisation.”
