Christchurch - A new Christchurch tech company has designed a New Zealand-first game-changing cloud migration tool, Movebot, which can shift massive amounts of data, a bit like moving a house or an office, safely and quickly. Movebot, was conceived during the covid-19 lockdown, helping businesses, organisations and people move their data to
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NZ not driving hard enough for digital health transformation – NZHIT
Auckland - New Zealand’s leading digital health organisation, NZ Health IT (NZHIT), today pleaded to the government to urgently take action on recommendations in the Simpson report released yesterday. NZHIT chief executive Scott Arrol says he is pleased the report, on the future of health in New Zealand, has captured most of
Why New Zealand covid experts may have failed
Auckland - The government covid-19 lockdown strategy was based on theoretical modelling data provided by University of Auckland scientists who predicted 80,000 Kiwis could die, due to rapid widespread community transmission, pharmaceutical specialist Sir Ray Avery says. The Kiwi epidemiology experts agreed that New Zealand faced the same covid pandemic which
NZ tech company Jupl tracking lands in the USA
Auckland - In these troubling times, it is great for the New Zealand economy post-covid to have some good news regarding a Kiwi tech company succeeding in the USA . New Zealand health and safety tech company Jupl has secured a supply agreement with United Efficiency USA, an AT&T partner. United Efficiency provides
Artificial intelligence could soon detect pandemics – NZ Health IT
Auckland - AI and precision health could soon help detect pandemic virus patterns like covid-19 very early, NZ Health IT (NZHIT) chief executive Scott Arrol says. A lot of cutting-edge data research is being carried out globally which will be a pointer to how we understand data analytic patterns and viruses before
NZ fitness centres back to 70 percent activity levels
Christchurch - New Zealand gyms and facilities were back to 70 percent activity levels within two weeks of re-opening at covid level two according to the latest survey ExerciseNZ survey, chief executive Richard Beddie says. The nationwide study post-covid showed the number of new people keen to stay physical active at facilities
NZ humidity prevented spread of covid-19 pandemic
Auckland - New research conducted by Professor Michael Ward, an epidemiologist in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, and two researchers from the Fudan University School of Public Health in Shanghai showed that humidity is an important factor in the transmission of covid-19. In this first peer-reviewed
