The Northland and Auckland district health boards (DHBs) will make the jump from their existing Concerto 6 clinical system from Orion Health to the latest version of the software, known as Clinical Portal 8, by early next year.

The two DHBs follow the roll-out of Clinical Portal 8 at Counties Manukau and Waitematā DHBs last year and when complete, will form the largest regional clinical portal in the country.

The end result promises to be a single, connected clinical viewing system that will allow records to be accessed from any Northern region DHB location by authenticated health providers.