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I’ve just wrapped up two whirlwind days at the Digital Health Festival (DHF) here in Melbourne, and my head is buzzing. As a Kiwi looking across the ditch, I came here to see what trends are shaping the Australian healthcare landscape and, more importantly, how we can apply these insights back home in New Zealand.

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Last week I closed the AI in Clinical Practice conference with a provocation I hoped the room needed to hear. While the day had showcased impressive AI deployments across New Zealand’s health sector, I argued that the most important question was still going unasked: not whether AI works, but whether we are applying it to the right problems.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the AI in Clinical Practice: Transforming Healthcare in Aotearoa conference in Auckland. The event brought together a diverse group of clinicians, policymakers, and tech vendors to explore the real-world embedding of AI into our local clinical workflows.

At the Collaborative Aotearoa conference in Ōtautahi Christchurch at the end of March 2026, I spoke about something I’ve been reflecting on for a long time: how we make better decisions about digital and AI in healthcare.

The New Zealand healthcare system is under immense, highly publicised pressure, battling burnout, long wait times, and systemic inequities. Yet, inside the doors of Papa Hou in Christchurch during the late March 2026 Collaborative Aotearoa "Modernising Primary Health" conference, a profoundly optimistic narrative emerged.

No strategy, no matter how well conceived, ever springs full grown from nothing. Every strategy has its roots in other thinking and planning. The word strategy itself derives from the Greek word strategia, meaning to lead an army. All strategy originally evolved from the thinking of generals in military campaigns, where it descended through mind numbing iterations of peer reviewed business publications and large consulting firms into its current managerial interpretation.

At the TUANZ Tech Summit on 10 September 2025, two keynote speakers, educator Frances Valentine and the Prime Minister's Science Advisor Dr John Roche, delivered what felt less like speeches and more like a national call to arms. Listening to them back-to-back was to experience a one-two punch of exhilarating possibility and sobering reality.

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