Regular readers of Pulse+IT will remember an interesting move a couple of months ago by a group of four health IT companies in New Zealand to take their concerns about a new clinical information system developed by Auckland primary health organisation ProCare to the press, the public and the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.
The complaining companies – secure messaging vendor HealthLink and GP software vendors Medtech, My Practice and Best Practice – made some quite serious claims about the potential for a breach of the data of the more than 800,000 patients enrolled with ProCare's general practices in the Auckland region.
