Message from the Chair of HiNZ-NMI
Kia ora koutou,
It’s been an incredibly busy and exciting time in the digital health space, with innovation and collaboration continuing to transform the way we deliver care across Aotearoa New Zealand. Nurses and midwives remain at the forefront of this change — leading initiatives, championing new technologies, and ensuring digital solutions are grounded in safe, equitable, person-centred care.
This month, I’m particularly pleased to promote our upcoming June webinar, where we will hear from an inspiring group of nurses and midwives who are leading the charge in implementing digital health solutions that are making a real difference to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. Their work highlights the impact our professions can have in shaping smarter, more connected health services, and I encourage you to register and join us for what promises to be an engaging and practical session.
In this edition of the newsletter, you’ll also have the opportunity to meet more members of our executive committee and learn about the experience and passion they bring to our growing community. We are fortunate to have such a committed group advocating for the advancement of digital health nursing and midwifery across the sector.
To help our network continue to grow, I encourage you to invite colleagues to become members, attend our events, and stay connected with the exciting developments happening in this rapidly evolving field. Your involvement strengthens our collective voice and helps build a digitally enabled future for healthcare in Aotearoa.
Ngā mihi,
Carey Campbell (@Carey)
Chair
HiNZ-NMI Updates and News
Discussion Paper: Navigating Digital Health Tensions in a New Zealand Health Organisation
Thanks to Andrew Ingersoll and Elf Eggimann (and Elf’s AI tool of choice) for this discussion paper.
Andrew presented at the recent HiNZ workshop in Auckland and encouraged the audience to take photos of his slides and also provided an prompt to use with the AI tool of choice. He encouraged the audience to upload the photos along with the prompt to craft a discussion paper to take back to their workplace.
Elf agreed to follow these instructions and provide the ‘tweaked’ output for this newsletter.
A great collaboration between people and ‘robots’!!
Discussion Paper- Navigating Digital Health Tensions in a New Zealand Health Organisation.pdf (94.0 KB)
Our exec members…part 2
Victoria Brevoort
Victoria Brevoort is a registered nurse with a Master of Nursing from Massey University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health from the University of Auckland - so yes, she’s done a bit of study. With her history of working in aged care since the age of 16 (as a bright-eyed junior caregiver), her passion for aged care runs through her veins.
These days, she’s the Performance and Analytics Manager at Ryman Healthcare, where she looks after all things Clinical Systems, including myRyman Care (a custom-built digital care planning platform she knows inside and out). Victoria works closely with village teams, developers, and testers to design tools that actually make life easier, reduce clinical risk without the dreaded alert fatigue from constant notification, and supporting care for more than 4,800 residents across 49 villages in New Zealand and Australia. Victoria’s ethos for the systems she supports is that they provide the right information, at the right time, for the right person, at the right time in the workflow.
She’s especially passionate about turning data from myRyman Care into meaningful improvements in clinical practice, and is an active member of quality improvement projects. In short, if there’s a way to make systems smarter, safer, and less of a headache for busy teams, Victoria’s probably already onto it.
Courtney McKerrow
I’m a Clinical Application Specialist at Forte Health in Christchurch, with around 20 years of nursing experience (which still feels a bit surreal to say out loud). Alongside this role, I currently work as a PACU Registered Nurse and have recently held a combined position coordinating Education and Infection Prevention and Control. I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing and have undertaken further study to build my knowledge of digital transformation and change management.
I’m passionate about using digital systems in ways that genuinely support safe, high quality patient care, while also making life easier for the people delivering it. I enjoy working alongside teams to understand how work actually happens in clinical setting (because it’s rarely as neat as the process map suggests!)and identifying where technology can make a practical, meaningful difference.
For me, supporting digital change is about being visible, approachable, and hands on: spending time in clinical areas, answering the quick questions, and supporting teams as confidence grows and workflows evolve.
I’m really looking forward to contributing a strong clinical nursing perspective to the HiNZ Nursing & Midwifery Executive Committee and connecting with others who are equally committed to improving care through thoughtful, well supported digital change.
Amio Matenga-Ikihele
Dr Amio Matenga-Ikihele (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui | Niue) is a digital health equity researcher, registered nurse, and systems leader whose work is reshaping how Pacific communities engage with health technology.
She holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland, where she remains an Honorary Lecturer in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. In addition to being an NMI executive leader, she is a Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand and a co-founder and Strategic Lead (Digital Health & AI) at Moana Connect.
New Publications from Nursing & Midwifery Informatics
Latest edition of the IMIA NI Newsletter.
Here’s the latest newsletter for you to read:
IMIA NI NEWSLETTER May 2026.pdf (1.1 MB)
If you haven’t already, you can request to join their LinkedIn group here.
Interesting read
A new edition of this book is coming out soon - here’s the link and here is a precis for you:
Essential Knowledge and AI in Nursing Informatics, 8th Edition by Kathleen A. McCormick and Carolyn S. Harmon, 8th Edition
By Kathleen A. McCormick and Carolyn S. Harmon
© 2027 Published October 9, 2026
The single best resource for learning how technology can make the nursing experience as rewarding and successful as possible
Essential Knowledge and AI in Nursing Informatics provides foundational knowledge and practical guidance for managing, interpreting, and applying healthcare data to improve patient outcomes and quality of care. Designed for students and practicing professionals, it explores how information systems support modern nursing practice.
The text examines the role of technology in nursing administration, clinical practice, education, and research. It explains computer systems, data management principles, and information theory, while covering electronic medical records (EMRs), continuum-of-care IT systems, personal health records, clinical coding standards, and regulatory requirements across healthcare systems.
The eighth edition highlights major technological advancements—especially the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. The authors explore how AI is transforming nursing while addressing the ethical considerations of AI integration.
Interesting Listening
You may be interested in this podcast from Australia:
Learning and Development
Here’s a great resource from Peter Birch, Talking Health Tech. He knows there are a lot of clinicians interested in a career in digital health but don’t know how to ‘get there’ - or whether they ‘have what it takes’. He developed a free on-line toolkit and you can sign up here
Once you ‘register’, you will receive an email each day with information and ‘tasks’. No obligation, it’s free…what have you got to lose???
Upcoming Events
National events
A ‘don’t miss’ webinar showcasing our own nurses and midwives doing great things! Don’t miss this one!!
Call for submissions for our NZ national conference. Send through your abstracts - and register for this November extravaganza!!
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International events
Join our neighbours across the ditch for this annual event. It’s always a goodie!
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About HiNZ-NMI
The HiNZ nursing & midwifery informatics special interest group (HiNZ-NMI) supports the development of nursing and midwifery informatics in New Zealand. HiNZ-NMI meets on the eHealth Forum and publishes a free eNewsletter with digital health updates of relevance to nurses.
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What is nursing and midwifery informatics?
Nursing and Midwifery Informatics science and practice integrates nursing and midwifery, its information and knowledge and their management with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities world-wide.