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Highlights from Hack Aotearoa 2020

Highlights from Hack Aotearoa 2020

Precision Driven Health (PDH) was proud to sponsor Hack Aotearoa 2020, New Zealand’s Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare conference. The event, which this year included a health datathon for the first time, took place last Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the...

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Delving into the data at Hack Aotearoa 2020

Delving into the data at Hack Aotearoa 2020

This Friday marks the return of Hack Aotearoa, the globally recognised Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Critical Data event. Building on the success of the 2019 event, Hack Aotearoa 2020 continues to innovate and will include a health datathon in addition...

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PDH announces sponsorship of Hack Aotearoa 2020

PDH announces sponsorship of Hack Aotearoa 2020

Precision Driven Health (PDH) is excited to return in 2020 as a major partner for Hack Aotearoa.  Building on the success of the 2019 conference – the first of its kind in New Zealand – Hack Aotearoa 2020 continues to innovate and will include a...

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AI in Health Report Launched

AI in Health Report Launched

Precision Driven Health has partnered with the AI Forum to produce a research report, AI for Health in New Zealand / Hauoro i te Atamai Iahiko. Read more and access the report below. New Zealand’s district health boards are facing a $500 million annual deficit but...

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Connecting with the health data science community in Spain

Connecting with the health data science community in Spain

By Anna Spyker, Software Engineer Recently I attended the IEEE CBMS Conference in Cordoba, Spain to connect with other researchers, data scientists and clinicians and share the work we’ve been doing on interpretable machine learning. I felt an incredible sense of...

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Building a patient-centred health system

Building a patient-centred health system

Conversations from the Emerging Tech in Health Symposium As part of Techweek this year, New Zealand’s digital health community came together at the Emerging Tech in Health Symposium in Christchurch. Dame Diane Robertson, head of the Data Futures Partnership spoke...

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Precision Driven Health and NZ Health IT announce MoU

Precision Driven Health and NZ Health IT announce MoU

Precision Driven Health, a public-private research initiative and NZ Health IT (NZHIT), the peak body for NZ’s health IT industry sector, are pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enable further collaboration and create innovative opportunities...

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Student projects important for exploring new ideas

Student projects important for exploring new ideas

This year’s Summer of Research student presentations were some of the best and most polished Precision Driven Health (PDH) has ever seen. Each summer, PDH funds a group of students to undertake 10-week research projects. This year’s group of 10 students met in early...

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PDH supports the Hack Aotearoa conference

PDH supports the Hack Aotearoa conference

PDH is delighted to be a part of the upcoming Hack Aotearoa conference. A recent press release introduced the event: Hack Aotearoa has announced the first New Zealand artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare conference. Hosted by University of Auckland School of...

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Countering bias in the health system

Countering bias in the health system

This week Dr Kevin Ross, General Manager of Precision Driven Health and Haze White, Māori Health Researcher, spoke to Radio New Zealand about countering ethnic bias in the health system to ensure the findings of NZ health data research is meaningful for all groups of...

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