The latest computer systems outage happened over a 12-hour period between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Health NZ executive director for the northern region Andrew Brant confirmed the outage had affected several hospitals. “Health NZ hospitals in Te Tai Tokerau, Waitematā, Auckland and Counties Manukau experienced an IT outage yesterday impacting some clinical and operational systems,” he said. Douglass said the first part of Health NZ’s 10-year digital investment plan was trying to make IT systems stable. We are underinvested – we have been for many years, and the digital investment plan aims to address that.”