Optional Workshops

Enhance your 2026 Digital Health Week Conference experience with our special interest workshops. Digital Health Week NZ optional workshops will be held on Tuesday, 17 November 2026. 

Add a workshop to your registration, or purchase a workshop-only pass.

Digital health in practice: making technology work for clinicians and patients

8:50am - 4:50pm, Tuesday, 17 November | Due Drop Events Centre, Manukau, Auckland

This practical workshop focuses how technology can help solve some of the biggest challenges facing clinicians today - from fragmented information and disconnected services to duplication of work, administrative burden and increasing complexity.

Hear from health professionals and leaders about what works, what doesn't and what we can learn from both successes and failures.

Explore how to assess digital and AI tools, build trust, manage risk and think about the impact of AI on the clinical workforce.

Designed for those providing frontline care to people and their whānau, attendees will leave with practical ideas and approaches for how clinicians can take the lead in evaluating, implementing and governing digital technologies in health, ensuring technology connects care and supports the workforce.

From Research to Impact: Using AI to Enable Better Health Outcomes

9am - 4pm, Tuesday, 17 November | 85 Park Road - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Room 501-010, Auckland

Join us as we discuss how AI health research is improving healthcare in Aotearoa

This workshop will bring together researchers, sector leaders, healthcare professionals and industry to explore how AI health research is improving health and healthcare. Across four sessions, we’ll explore leading AI projects from across Aotearoa, discuss how data underpins AI innovation, share examples of where AI research is making an impact in health, and gain insights from sector leaders on research priorities, opportunities and their perspectives on the future of AI-enabled healthcare systems.

Workshop organised by the AI in Health Research Network, supported by HiNZ.

Standards Save Lives

9am - 3:30pm, Tuesday, 17 November | Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland

Standards Save Lives is the latest running of the ever-popular HL7 NZ and Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) annual workshop.

Hear from local and international experts about the new wave of data and interoperability standards that are so important to digitalisation in healthcare and patient empowerment. A fun team challenge will round out your learning.

Workshop organised by the AI in Health Research Network, supported by HiNZ.