Photo: ODT FilesA big hospital IT crash in the South Island in mid-January was caused by a third-party hardware failure, Health New Zealand says. It had earlier said a similar outage later the same month in Auckland and Northland was due to a technical failure at a commercial data centre. "We are working with the vendor and internally reviewing opportunities to speed up the response and restoration," he said. HNZ earlier said all four outages in January were due to technical issues, and three were due to "third-party vendor issues". Key IT projects it has promised will cut wait times and boost care for patients have anchor contracts with US Big Tech companies.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 07, 2026 21:28 UTC