Three of New Zealand's top health IT companies have been named as finalists in the NZ Health IT (NZHIT) innovation awards, to be announced at the Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ) conference in Rotorua on November 5.

Christchurch firm Celo was founded in 2014 and counts the Canterbury District Health Board and Nurse Maude as customers. It markets encryption technology to provide secure and real-time mobile and desktop messaging for healthcare.