Healthcare IT News January 12, 2026
The popular AI tool for healthcare professionals may also soon come to public outpatient clinics in New Zealand.
An ongoing deployment of AI scribes across public emergency departments across New Zealand has more clinicians lining up, while a potential expansion to other clinical areas may be on the horizon.
Part of the HealthX innovation programme, the deployment secured 1,000 AI scribe licenses for emergency clinicians and an additional 100 for mental health crisis teams in emergency departments. The license includes the use of the popular Heidi AI scribe from Australia, one of the four currently endorsed AI tools for clinical documentation by Te Whatu Ora’s AI advisory group.
This followed a successful pilot at Hawke’s Bay Hospital, where doctors...
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