Canterbury and West Coast District Health Boards are set to implement a new digital patient observation and alert response system called Patientrack, which is aimed at helping clinicians identify deteriorating patients earlier.

Patientrack was devised by a New Zealand-trained intensive care specialist based in the UK and has been deployed at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust. It is distributed in New Zealand and Australia by IT solutions firm MKM Health.