PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSONNew digital health qualifications being offered by the University of Otago next year will help prepare for the new Dunedin Hospital’s more digital focus. Otago Business School dean Robin Gauld said the new concept of the "digital hospital" was underlying the vision of the planned new Dunedin Hospital and he understood more than 100 digital-related staff would work there. An advertisement for staff for the new Otago digital programme referred to "the construction of Dunedin’s new digitally enabled hospital in the next decade". "This initiative presents an exciting opportunity for digital health research and practice" in the region, the advertisement also said. The new Otago digital programme would help develop skills "that are going to be needed by people working in the hospital".

Source: Otago Daily Times July 29, 2020 16:30 UTC