6 Sep 2023

Amazon working on programme to 'transform' NZ health sector

From Morning Report, 7:35 am on 6 September 2023

American tech giant Amazon is working on a programme that health agency Te Whatu Ora says will 'transform' the health sector via cloud computing.

This follows two private presentations that billionaire Jeff Bezos's company gave the Health Minister about, what Amazon called '"the exciting transformational opportunity that lies ahead for New Zealand's health system".

Phil Pennington has been combing through official information emails and papers about big tech's lobbying of the government.

Pennington spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.