The future of e-health and e-mental health

Friday 2:35pm

Faciliators: Andrew McCombie, Carsten Grimm

The rate of new tech development and its implications for how we deal with healthcare (and mental healthcare) is huge. How will wearable tech impact (or revolutionise?) the patient-doctor relationship? What do we need to do in order to ensure NZ stays up with the leading tech development for healthcare? Are we ready for the pivot to passive data collection and what will it mean if we are not? NZ has always been an innovative country—is this still true in the tech healthcare space?